Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission speaks during a news conference as State Health Commissioner John Auerbach, left, and Dr. Lauren Smith, right, Medical Director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, listen in Boston Monday, June 15, 2009 where it was announced that the first death linked to swine flu in Massachusetts is a 30-year-old Boston woman who died Sunday, June 14, 2009.
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