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Medical professionals aboard the USNS Comfort treat a 6-year-old Haitian boy in the casualty receiving room after he was flown by helicopter from the USS Carl Vinson off the coast of Haiti, Jan. 19, 2010. The boy and a 20-year-old were the first Hatian patients to arrive aboard the 1,000-bed hospital ship.

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Medical professionals aboard the USNS Comfort treat a 6-year-old Haitian boy in the casualty receiving room after he was flown by helicopter from the USS Carl Vinson off the coast of Haiti, Jan. 19, 2010. The boy and a 20-year-old were the first Hatian patients to arrive aboard the 1,000-bed hospital ship.

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