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A disinfectant dispenser serves the crowd at the New Town Plaza in Shatin, the largest residential town in northern Hong Kong, China, May 3, 2009. Hong Kong's pandemic response level was raised to the top "emergency" grade on May first after it confirmed Asia's first case of the new H1N1 influenza A, or swine flu, in a Mexican traveler. With the 2003 SARS outbreak that killed nearly 300 people still fresh in mind, the city braced itself for another deadly virus on the first work day...
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A disinfectant dispenser serves the crowd at the New Town Plaza in Shatin, the largest residential town in northern Hong Kong, China, May 3, 2009. Hong Kong's pandemic response level was raised to the top "emergency" grade on May first after it confirmed Asia's first case of the new H1N1 influenza A, or swine flu, in a Mexican traveler. With the 2003 SARS outbreak that killed nearly 300 people still fresh in mind, the city braced itself for another deadly virus on the first work day after the labor day holidays..
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