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City expected to spend $100 million on swine flu response

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As the swine flu death toll in New York rose to 15, health and emergency officials said Thursday the city will spend an estimated $100 million on its ongoing response to the outbreak.At a City Council hearing, the officials said $10 million has been spent already since the outbreak started in Queens in April. Dr. Thomas Farley, who has served as the city's health commissioner since Monday, said his agency alone has spent at least $4 million on a response to the new viral strain."Resources are tight," he said in his first public health briefing on H1N1 swine flu.

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