‘Great vigilance’ against flu vowed

President Obama pledged "great vigilance" in confronting the swine flu outbreak yesterday as it spread coast to coast across the U.S. The disease, now being called the 2009 H1N1 flu by U.S. public health officials, hit 11 states and closed schools amid confirmation of the first U.S. death — a Mexican toddler who visited Texas with his family — and the confinement of dozens of Marines after one came down with the disease in California.