Swine Flu Pandemic

Mass Drug Administration; Not a Cure, But a Necessary Treatment

Josh Ruxin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

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Josh Ruxin

It's scary to think that Neglected Tropical Diseases can be so easily defeated with a very modest investment, far less than it takes to fight pandemics like AIDS and tuberculosis. Yet they continue to be ignored.

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Swine Flu Vaccination: Corporate Employers Got Scarce Flu Vaccine, USA Today Reports

usatoday.com | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

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When the swine flu vaccine was most scarce, health officials gave thousands of doses to corporate clinics at Walt Disney World, Toyota, defense contra...

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Record Swine Flu Cases In CA, Just In Time For Free Vaccinations To End

Posted 12.04.2009 | Los Angeles

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Some contradictory news on the swine flu front today. ABC 7 reports that LA County is ending its free vaccination program early next week. With ...

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Swine Flu Mutation: New Strain Found In Europe; Drug Resistant And Harsher Symptoms

bloomberg.com | Michelle Fay Cortez & Marianne Stigset | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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European public health officials are investigating a handful of swine flu infections in Norway and Wales in which the virus mutated to a form that's m...

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Guests of God: 2.5 Million Muslims Worship in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in This Year's Hajj

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.

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Online Gangs Sell Fake Swine Flu Drugs, Firm Warns

Reuters | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

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Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Mo...

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Does The Flu Vaccine Matter?

The Atlantic | Clayton M. Christensen and Jason Hwang | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

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Vaccination is central to the government's plan for preventing deaths from swine flu. But what if everything we think we know about fighting influenza...

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Talking to Kids About Swine Flu...Without Scaring Them Silly

Danielle Wood | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

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Danielle Wood

It's up to parents to give kids the information they need to stay calm, and hopefully healthy, in the face of the swine flu pandemic. To start, here are five swine flu myths to address.

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Afghanistan's Only Pig Placed In Swine Flu Quarantine

globalpost.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- By Afghan standards, it's a panic of apocalyptic proportions: A state of emergency has been declared; parents are scaring their ...

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Parents: Vaccinate Your Children

Anne Mai Bertelsen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Anne Mai Bertelsen

Parents born after 1970 don't know about these diseases first hand. They have the luxury of protection and ignorance: they grew up with vaccines and without pandemics.

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Swine Flu Vaccine: Why You Should Stop Worrying and Roll Up Your Sleeve

Ben Sherwood | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

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Ben Sherwood

When we're bombarded with information (and opinion), experts say our brains simply aren't wired to balance risk vs. benefit and make sound decisions. Simply put, too many of us worry about the wrong things.

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The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-Up: Optimism as a Public Health Problem

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Barbara Ehrenreich

According to academic "positive psychologists," and legions of unlicensed life coaches, optimism wards off common illnesses and extends longevity. It turns out to be less than salubrious when it comes to public health.

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Health Experts Fear That Lack Of Sick Leave Helps Spread Swine Flu

nytimes.com | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

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Public health experts worried about the spread of the H1N1 flu are raising concerns that workers who deal with the public, like waiters and child care...

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Worst-Case Swine Flu Outbreak Could Overwhelm Local Hospitals

Chicago Tribune | William Mullen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago

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For a mere peek into the potential difficulties of managing a worst-case outbreak of swine flu, one need only look back at a few weeks in May at Child...

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Why Weren't H1N1 Vacccines Available for Our Children Before School Started?

Sen. Bob Graham | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Bob Graham

Whether the threat is from naturally occurring disease or bioterrorism, the United States needs to be able to produce vaccines and other medicines faster and less expensively.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Influx Arrives In Suburban Cook, But More Needed

Chicago Pubic Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago

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Suburban Cook County just got an influx of pandemic flu vaccine, but their supply still lags behind Chicago's. ...

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Palatine Only Suburb To Get Swine Flu Vaccine

Daily Herald | Robert McCoppin | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

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Palatine grade school students and faculty soon will be the only members of the general public in suburban Cook County who can get the vaccine against...

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Why Don't We Have a Surgeon General?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Linda Bergthold

There is something terribly wrong when a political minority can hold up a nomination that has the potential to affect a nation's health.

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St. Athanasius Closed: Evanston Elementary School Shut Down After Swine Flu Scare

CBS2 | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

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A rash of students out sick with flulike symptoms has shut down a Roman Catholic elementary school in Evanston....

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Obama: Swine Flu A National Emergency

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON � President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move em...

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Swine Flu Is in the House

Maria Rodale | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

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Maria Rodale

We were lucky to catch the infection early enough to get the kids on Tamiflu. But there is no sign of a vaccine in sight, and now it's too late anyway.

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Swine Flu: Mandatory H1N1 Flu Shot Order Rescinded By New York Officials

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York

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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state health officials have suspended a ruling that would have forced health care workers across the state to get vaccin...

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Swine Flu Fears Shut Down St. Charles East High School

NBC Chicago | STEVE BRYANT | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

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A suburban high school is shutting down until Monday after 900+ students called in sick with flu-like symptoms on Tuesday, according to a school super...

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Will We Suffer Two Flu Seasons This Year?

Peter Christian Hall | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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Peter Christian Hall

In this season of swine flu discontent, the annual shot aimed at quelling "normal" flu may have a bad year.

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Mandatory Flu Vaccines For Health Care Workers Halted

nytimes.com | Sewell Chan and Anemona Hartocollis | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

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A judge on Friday halted enforcement of a New York State directive requiring that all health care workers be vaccinated for swine flu. ...

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