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Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on H1N1's spread and control.
Two articles about H1NI, or swine flu, recently published in the
same issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, describe how
acute respiratory illness is transmitted within households and
discuss some of the public health efforts to thwart swine flu in
Australia during their now-completed 2009 winter season...
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