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		<title>Swine flu is spreading even in summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus is unexpectedly continuing to spread easily through the United States during the summer months, and health authorities expect a bump in transmission in about six weeks, when school goes back into session &#8212; perhaps two or three months earlier than is normally seen with seasonal flu.    &#34;Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two anti-smoking drugs to carry mental-health warnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two popular anti-smoking drugs will now carry warnings about the risk of severe mental health problems, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.
The FDA said Chantix and Zyban will carry the warnings to alert consumers to the risks of depression and suicidal thoughts when using the drugs.
The drugs also have been reported to cause changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China confirms mainland swine flu case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 30-year-old male student enrolled in the United States has been confirmed as China&#8217;s second H1N1, or swine flu, case, and its first on the mainland, according to the information office of the Chinese Health Ministry.
&#8220;Bao&#8221; began his journey at St. Louis, Missouri, took a connecting flight at St. Paul, Minnesota, for Tokyo, Japan on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.health-updates.org/news/top-stories/china-confirms-mainland-swine-flu-case/</link>
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		<title>Asian countries pledge common fight against flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Asian countries will increase stockpiles of medicine to fight the H1N1 flu virus and look at ways to share essential supplies in the event of an emergency, according to a statement drafted for a meeting Friday.
Health ministers from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan and South Korea will intensify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico breathes easier but flu pandemic likely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY (Reuters) &#8211; Mexico will resume normal business activity this week after its swine flu emergency eased, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute on Monday over bans on Mexican, U.S. and Canadian pork.
International tensions triggered by the new H1N1 virus, which contains mostly swine components with bits of human and avian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDC says few people in U.S. over 50 hit by new flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new H1N1 flu virus appears to be fairly widespread in the United States and seems to be hitting mostly younger people, with very few cases reported in people over 50, U.S. health officials said on Sunday.
&#8220;We think very few of the cases we have confirmed are in people over 50,&#8221; the U.S. Centers for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New flu tests will speed up detection, CDC says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New tests are being shipped to U.S. states that should speed up efforts to screen for the new flu virus that threatens to start a pandemic, health officials said on Thursday.
And a lab with the new test has been set up in Mexico in the hope of finding out how many of the 2,500 suspected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.health-updates.org/pandemic/swine-flu/new-flu-tests-will-speed-up-detection-cdc-says/</link>
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		<title>Swine flu diagnosed in Elyria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first confirmed case of swine flu in Ohio has been found in a 9-year-old Ely Elementary School third-grader. The school will be closed all week, Superintendent Paul Rigda said late Sunday night.
The boy, whom officials did not identify, traveled to Mexico during spring break. While there, he spent time at a farm, a fair, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.health-updates.org/pandemic/swine-flu/swine-flu-diagnosed-in-elyria/</link>
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		<title>Mexico seeks to reassure over deadly swine flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexican authorities sought to reassure citizens Saturday over a deadly new multi-strain swine flu, as the World Health Organization warned that the virus had &#8220;pandemic potential.&#8221;
The outbreak of the new virus transmitted from human to human that has killed up to 60 people and infected hundreds in Mexico and infected eight in the United States [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.health-updates.org/news/outbreak/mexico-seeks-to-reassure-over-deadly-swine-flu/</link>
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		<title>Scientists uncover genetic risks for stroke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have found important genetic differences that significantly raise the risk of stroke, and they are found in millions of people.
The study is the first to identify common genetic variants influencing stroke risk in the United States and may lead to better treatments, they reported on Wednesday.
While other stroke-related genes have been discovered, none involved [...]]]></description>
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