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New Flu Cases Rise in Shadow of SARS

The death of a 38-year-old chef in Zhejiang from a new strain of bird flu has brought the number of reported fatalities to three, following news on Sunday of two earlier deaths in Shanghai. Ten H7N9 cases have now been confirmed, while a businessman is reported to have died from a separate flu strain in Hunan. Amid uncertainty and distrust of official information, rumors and speculation have become