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Is Your Swine Flu Fear Growing?
All Summer long, swine flu has made it into the headlines on a weekly, if not a daily, basis. This flu was quickly declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, not because of the number of deaths due to this strain of the virus, but because it spread worldwide with speed.
A blogger over at Newsweek wants to add a little perspective to the media coverage of H1N1.
Doctors List Who Should Die in a Pandemic
If a global and deadly pandemic hits, doctors will have to chose who to save, and thus, who to let die. Prominent doctors have now put out a definitive list of who is in and who is out.
They made the list at the behest of prominent universities and military and US governmental agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Risk of Heterosexual Global AIDS Pandemic Decreased
The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that the risk of a global AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals has decreased. Of course this assessment does not apply to Africa.
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US Lifts HIV/AIDS Travel Ban
For the last 22 years, foreign citizens living with HIV or AIDS have been forbidden to legally enter the US. As of Monday, that ban will be a thing of the past. On Friday, President Obama announced the decision to overturn the policy he called "rooted in fear rather than fact."
Northeastern Tomato Blight Caused by Home Gardening
A fast-spreading fungus has ravaged tomato crops across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, wiping out this year's crop and causing the price of heirloom tomatoes to skyrocket by 20 percent. But the cause of the pandemic is something that's much more innocent than you might think.
In a recent New York Times column, renowned farm-to-table chef Dan Barber discusses the aggressive disease, known as late blight, that has wiped out 70 percent of this year's heirloom tomato crop.
Would You Get the Swine Flu Vaccine While Pregnant?
It may no longer be headline news, but the swine flu pandemic still has people talking. This week the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to discuss the development and distribution of a vaccine that is set to be ready by Fall. Among the groups who may get top priority for the vaccine are pregnant women.
Are You Still Worried About Swine Flu?
The last 10 days have been fraught with fear over a possible swine flu pandemic: almost all of Mexico was shut down, US citizens were strongly cautioned against traveling to Mexico, and American schools were shut down in many states.
Today brings both good news, bad news, and a warning for the future. While the US is no longer advising school closures since the virus is milder than originally believed, the first American citizen diagnosed with swine flu passed away.
Flu News: Bird and Swine
For a long time bird flu was predicted to be the next worldwide epidemic. While we waited for this version of the virus to attack, swine flu made its dramatic debut on the public health scene. It appears that our best defense against avian flu just happens to be our cold noses.
Front Page: Holocaust Museum Closed After Deadly Shooting
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will be closed today to honor the security guard gunned down by a white supremacist yesterday. — CNN
- The World Health Organization has declared swine flu a pandemic. — AP
- US retail sales were up for the first time in three months.
Has the Internet Made the Swine Flu Epidemic Better or Worse?
Forget the water cooler, all anyone talked about this week all over my workplace was the swine flu epidemic. You'd think that reading tech blogs all day, I'd have some sort of reprieve, but that was not the case at all.
In fact, tech and the swine flu were tightly associated, from an iPhone app that tracks the flu, a website that tracks it, and a Google Maps mashup that tracks it.
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