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11-9-2007 4:06 PM

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11-17-2007 2:08 PM

neochonetes

Thanks for clipping this!
Last week, I saw a similar incident reported on CNN. It happened a few months ago. The doctor, mother and child were in AR. They reported this to the CDC. The little boy did recover.

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