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Merchant Marine students must get swine flu vaccine

After an outbreak of flulike symptoms in August among 30 students at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, where four students were diagnosed with swine flu, all 970 students will be required to get the H1N1 vaccine, an academy spokesman said.

The academy was the only Long Island college to report a significant flulike outbreak among students. Stony Brook University's medical director,...

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