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Published 11/07/2009 by The Independent

Hong Kong orders three million swine flu shots

Hong Kong has ordered three million doses of swine flu vaccine -- enough for nearly half the city's population -- as it braces for more outbreaks of the virus this winter, officials said.

The health department ordered the vaccine from French drug maker Sanofi Pasteur with the first half...

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