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H1N1 flu vaccine going to youngest kids 
DETROIT LAKES - A special public health strike force went into schools in Detroit Lakes, Frazee and Audubon today to administer H1N1 flu vaccine to kindergarteners and first-graders.
By Nathan Bowe, DL-Online , October 28, 2009
H1N1 kills healthy 13-year-old 
TORONTO — The swine flu death of an otherwise healthy hockey-playing teen came without warning and should serve as a lesson to parents to keep a close eye on their ill children, the boy’s grief-stricken father said Tuesday.
By Colin Perkel, Canadian Press , October 28, 2009
WHO: nearly 5,000 swine flu deaths worldwide 
GENEVA (AP) — Nearly 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday.
By Associated Press , October 23, 2009
Sioux Falls hospitals ask kids not to visit to combat H1N1 
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's three largest hospital systems are asking kids 18 years and younger not to visit hospital patients and nursing home residents to help reduce the risk of spreading the H1N1 flu virus.
By Associated Press , October 23, 2009
Minn. baby who died of swine flu had heart ailment 
ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) — The family of the Freeborn County infant who died of swine flu says the 5-week-old also had critical heart and lung ailments.
By Associated Press , October 23, 2009
Editorial: Fighting H1N1 right here 
By Daily Globe , October 23, 2009
Response to new FluLine service is “very heavy” 
Officials at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) report that the response to their new phone-based service for people with flu symptoms has been “very heavy.”
By MN Department of Health, East Otter Tail Focus , October 22, 2009
Middle school student dies of H1N1 
HASTINGS - Oliver Franklin Finley, age 11, a Hastings Middle School student and the son of Steve and Nancy Finley, died last Saturday afternoon of complications from the H1N1 flu virus.
By Bonnie St. James, The Hastings Star-Gazette , October 22, 2009
H1N1 fears hit schools, sports teams 
PERHAM - Perhaps even more contagious than the virus itself is the rapidly spreading hype over this season’s H1N1 “swine flu” outbreak.
By Heidi Kratzke, East Otter Tail Focus , October 22, 2009
H1N1 blamed for 3 deaths, busy hotline 
ST. PAUL - Callers to Minnesota's new flu hotline reported no answers, busy signals and long waits today as the Health Department said three more people died from H1N1 flu.
By Don Davis , October 22, 2009
NRCHS waiting on vaccinations 
WORTHINGTON — With more than 99 percent of the influenza cases in the United States at this time designated as H1N1 novel influenza, Nobles-Rock Community Health Services officials have been talking about little else.
By Julie Buntjer , October 22, 2009
Toll-free line for H1N1 advice now available 
ST. PAUL — Operators are standing by to answer calls from feverish, coughing and achy Minnesotans.
By Don Davis , October 22, 2009
Production of swine flu vaccine is way behind 
SWIFTWATER, Pa. (AP) — The federal government originally promised 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine by now. Only 13 million have come through.
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM,Associated Press Writer , October 21, 2009
Newport Labs may hold key to H1N1
By Julie Buntjer , October 21, 2009
Back from the H1N1 brink 
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Earlier this month, Kelsey Mullenix had three questions for her family.
By JILL CALLISON, Argus Leader , October 20, 2009
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