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Published 11/04/2009 by France24 - Business


Older people most likely to die of swine flu: study

People over the age of 50 who are hospitalized with swine flu are the group most likely to die from the illness, but (A)H1N1 flu remains a young person's illness, US researchers said Tuesday.

Around 11 percent of the 1,088 cases of swine flu reported in California between April...

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