As of Tuesday, seventy-three countries had reported more than twenty-six thousand cases of the new H1N1 flu virus.

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Vietnam has reported more than 2,000 cases of swine flu and so far two patients have died.

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Although most patients suffer only a mild illness, scores of people are being treated in hospitals and more than 45 people have died because of complications related to the flu.

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Massachusetts General Hospital has already counted 532 cases of flu among patients, which is more than the Boston hospital saw in any of the previous three flu seasons, spokeswoman Kristen Stanton said Wednesday.

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They are more vulnerable to the severe effects of the flu or come into contact more often with this highly contagious virus.

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Conservative peer Baroness Knight of Collingtree then asked whether the government proposed to fund research into more effective flu vaccines, in the light of the recent report in medical journal the Lancet.

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