He's also bought Whole Foods Market (nasdaq: WFMI - news - people ) and student loan behemoth SLM (nyse: SLM - news - people ), commonly known as Sallie Mae.

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An estimated 22 million people in the United States have contracted the virus, commonly known as swine flu, resulting in about 98, 000 hospitalizations through October 17, Schuchat said.

CNN: H1N1 death toll estimated at 3,900 in U.S.

The word is going out that a lot of people need to get a pertussis booster shot Pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, is a bacterial infection that is very dangerous and sometimes fatal in young infants, whose immune systems are too immature to protect them.

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Commonly known as swine flu, the outbreak has sickened 9, 830 people and caused at least 79 deaths -- mostly in Mexico, the organization said.

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