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Barack Obama: When one person gets sick, that has the potential of making us all sick.

On the recordMay 7, 2009
When one person gets sick, that has the potential of making us all sick.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Town Hall Meeting on the Global Influenza Outbreak

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