Minnesota's State Epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Lynfield, right, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, center, and Minnesota's Commissioner of Health Dr. Sanne Magnan announce that a lab specimen from a Minnesota influenza patient has been submitted to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to be tested for the H1N1 novel influenza virus. Pawlenty and his advisers refrained from calling the suspected illness swine flu and instead referred to it as "H1N1 novel flu" a distinction of importance in a major pork producing state. AP Photo logo AP Photo 7 months ago

Minnesota's State Epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Lynfield, right, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, center, and Minnesota's Commissioner of Health Dr. Sanne Magnan announce that a lab specimen from a Minnesota influenza patient has been submitted to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to be tested for the H1N1 novel influenza virus. Pawlenty and his advisers refrained from calling the suspected illness swine flu and instead referred to it as "H1N1 novel flu" a distinction of importance in a major pork producing state.

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