Obama: U.S. swine flu response justified

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WASHINGTON – The strain of flu virus that is alarming the world is so new and poorly understood that it justifies the U.S. government’s multi-pronged efforts to fight it, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

Swine flu, or H1N1 flu as the government calls it, has caused only one confirmed U.S. death. But medical authorities fear it could become much worse, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, and that’s why he has thrown substantial federal resources into the campaign against it.

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