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Images from around the world on the fight to prevent the swine flu spread

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Chinese mothers care for their children who are getting treatment for flu at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on October 15, 2009. China's central government has allocated some five billion USD to funds for swine flu prevention and control, according to state media.STR/AFP / Getty Images

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County healthcare workers make announcements to residents waiting in a long line for the H1N1 vaccination shot at a clinic held by the Montgomery County Health and Human Services on October 14, 2009 at the Dennis Avenue County Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Swine flu is killing fewer people than seasonal flu but is causing greater alarm due to its impact on children and higher healthcare costs, according to a top disease surveillance expert. Denis Coulombier, who heads the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's preparedness and response unit, warned that a second wave of swine flu infections could be expected within weeks.TIM SLOAN/AFP / Getty Images

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An employee holds out a plush toy model of the H1N1 swine flu virus at the Newbury Comics store in Boston, Massachusetts October 16, 2009.BRIAN SNYDER

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Steve Kutchi of Frederick, Maryland, holds Sofia, 5, on his shoulders, as they wait in a line with thousands of others to receive an H1N1 flu vaccination at Montgomery County's Piccard Drive Health Center in Rockville, Maryland, October 21, 2009. Distribution of the vaccines for the so-called "Swine flu" have begun for small children and high-risk individuals.SAUL LOEB/AFP / Getty Images

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A lab technician works in the H1N1 laboratory at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, B.C., on Oct. 16, 2009. Health officials say B.C. is in the throes of the second wave of the H1N1 virus, and other provinces will soon follow. Eight people have now died due to the H1N1 virus in the province.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press

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Doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine sit in a basket at Rush University Medical Center October 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Rush is one of many hospitals and clinics that have started to distribute the vaccinations against the H1N1 swine flu virus in the United States this week.Scott Olson/Getty Images

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A woman receives a flu vaccination in the western German city of Mainz on October 7, 2009. A vaccine for run-of-the-mill flu also provides some protection against swine flu, especially the severest forms of the disease, Mexican scientists report on October 7, 2009.TORSTEN SILZ/AFP / Getty Images

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Eleven year-old Kerimal Suriel receives an H1N1 swine flu vaccine at the Children's Hospital Boston primary care clinic in Boston, Massachusetts October 7, 2009.BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS

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