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Swine flu virus continues to hit young hardest
Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2009
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention involving 4,958 hospitalizations from the H1N1 virus showed 53% of the cases were in people age 24 and younger. Another 39% were in people ages 25 to 64, and 7% in people age 65 and older. The hospitalizations were reported by 27 states from Aug. 30 through Oct. 10.
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