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Avian Flu

H1N1 Found in First US Commercial Swine Herd - Keep Your Eye on Factory Farms, China, and the Birds

David Kirby | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Avian Flu, Tom Vilsack, Indiana, Swine Flu, Factory Farm, Cafo, H1N1 Influenza, Usda, China, Living News
David Kirby

Though it would appear that people can infect pigs with H1N1, it is not clear whether live pigs can infect people. For now, officials are far more worried about the former than the latter.

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This Flu Season Mind Your Cold

Karen Leland | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Office Etiquette, Etiquette, Avian Flu, Flu, Cold, Sick Days, Sick, Health, Karen Leland, Living News
Karen Leland

I'm so mad I could sneeze (or cough), but at least it would be in the privacy of my own home, not sitting next to you at a dinner party because "I've...

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Germs Don't Care If You Are Legal Or Not

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear, Swine Flue, Mexico, Health Healthcare, Public Health, Flu, Vaccinate, Reform, Germs, Typhoid Mary, Sanitation, Servant, Fear Mongering, Avian Flu, Germ Theory, Illegal Immigrant, Infectious, Hygiene, Chris Weigant, Infect, Disease, Sars, Germ, Vaccine, Mary Mallon, Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Health Care, Influenza, Mallon, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Do you really want to limit vaccinations only to people who have legal documents, or would you rather everyone get inoculated? Remember, those you exclude will likely have some sort of contact with either you, your kids, or the food you eat at some point.

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Reaping What We Sow: How Industrial Animal Farming is Contributing to the Risk of a Swine Flu Pandemic

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Avian Flu, Factory Farming, World Health Organization, Livestock, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Green News
Nicolette Hahn Niman

Intensive farming systems -- with crowded animals, ventilation systems, and huge collections of manure -- make industrial poultry and swine operations into breeding grounds for a host of perilous diseases.

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A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Juliet Jeske, Swine Flu Pandemic, Al Franken, Peak Oil, 12 Monkeys, Global Warming, Minnesota, Will Menaker, Avian Flu, RJ Eskow, Jesse Ventura, World Health Organization, The Venus Syndrome, Jeff Horwich, World Wide Web, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, World News
Patrick Takahashi

Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.

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Swine Flu 1999: We Were Warned

David Kirby | Posted 06.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Cdc, Avian Flu, North Carolina, Mexico, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu 1999, Swine Flu Mexico, Green News
David Kirby

It now appears that six of the eight genetic components in the currently circulating virus are direct descendants of a swine flu virus that first emerged in North Carolina a decade ago.

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Preparing for the Swine Flu Apocalypse

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy

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Warren Holstein

It is important to boycott bacon and pulled pork sandwiches. It shows that we are serious and committed to overreacting.

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Keeping the Flu in Perspective

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Avian Flu, Cdc, Kathleen Sebelius, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Pandemic, Flu Epidemic, Media News
Kate Kelly

My objection to the story has to do with the unending focus of the television news headlines on the swine flu.

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When a Superbug Strikes Close to Home, How Can You Deal With it?

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Pandemic, Avian Flu, Antibiotic-Resistance, Herbal Remedies, Alternative Medicine, Mrsa, Mexico City-Mexico, Mexico, Living News
Matthew Stein

Imagine a Hurricane Katrina-sized catastrophe occurring in 50 major U.S. cities at the same time, and you have some idea of the worst-case scenario for a crippling global pandemic.

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Swine Flu: Science Races To Parse New Virus

Wall Street Journal | GAUTAM NAIK and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 05.27.2009 | World

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Avian flu and SARS rudely awoke the world to the possibility of a new pandemic. Could a seemingly more mundane bug now put the world to the test? The...

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Swine Flu Outbreak -- Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production?

David Kirby | Posted 05.26.2009 | World

Read More: University of Iowa, Avian Flu, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, Smithfield Foods, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Cafo, Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, Mexico, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Mexico City-Mexico, World News
David Kirby

A deadly new influenza virus has managed to jump from pigs to people in a previously unseen mutated form that can readily spread among humans. How could this happen? There are several plausible explanations.

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Talking Public Health With Obama

Jeremy Manier | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Infectious Disease, Avian Flu, Pandemic Flu, Health, Obama Katrina, Barack Obama Public Health, Tamiflu, Barack Obama Health Policy, Barack Obama, Obama Pandemics, Chicago News
Jeremy Manier

This interview, done more than a year before Obama announced his presidential run, gives some insight into his governing instincts, especially his awareness of how a public health disaster could overrun a president's agenda.

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