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LI student confirmed as swine flu victim

Amid heightening fears that swine flu is spreading, a second Queens school closed Tuesday as health authorities raised the number of confirmed flu cases across the nation to 66 - 45 of them from New York - and the head of the CDC said he "fully expects" to see deaths from the outbreak.

"I would say I am very concerned," said Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the national Centers for...

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