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Obesity emerges as risk factor in severe flu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People who are obese but otherwise healthy may be at special risk of severe complications and death from the new H1N1 swine flu virus, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. They described the cases of 10 patients at a Michigan hospital who were so ill they had to be put on ventilators. Three died. [...]

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