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Toddler from Mexico first to die of swine flu in U.S.

A swine-flu infected toddler from Mexico has become the first to die of the virus in the United States, federal health officials said Wednesday as they reiterated the potential of the strain to be lethal - regardless of age. For reasons that have yet to be explained, it is young people, especially young adults between the ages of 18 and 40 who have died of swine flu. A majority in Mexico have been...

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