Swine Flu Pandemic

China Swine Flu Response Criticized As "Unjustified"

Inter Press Service | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, May 5 (IPS) - Rebuked in the past for its sluggish response and attempts to cover up the 2003 outbreak of severe acut...

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Swine Flu Hits Sex Industry

The Mex Files | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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In the street, the only mask is a condom. So says Fátima, a 40 year old Parque Sullivan "strolling hostess" interviewed by AFP....

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China, WHO Downplay Quarantine Controversy With Mexico

Global Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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Following its accusation of China's "discrimination" against its citizens during attempts to contain the far-reaching A (H1N1) influenza, the Mexican ...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 4, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

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We'll see if the results of this recent study undertaken by the University of Illinois-Chicago makes it into the discussion of the Employee Free Choic...

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The Return of Swine Flu -- A Death in the U.S. and Uncertainty

Richard P. Wenzel | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living

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Richard P. Wenzel

We react to each influenza that visits itself upon the citizens of the world as though we have discovered something new. The only really new things are our surprise and consistent inability to recall all of the lessons from prior visitations.

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Mexico's Swine Flu Response Getting High Approval

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Over 70 percent give Felipe Calderon's government high marks for its handling of the crisis. ...

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Mexico Lowers Flu Alert Level

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico announced a return to "normalcy" on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than...

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Swine Flu: Pork Lobby Gears Up To Put Lipstick On A Pig

The Washington Post | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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It was Day 7 of the great swine flu outbreak, and inside the eighth-floor conference room in a concrete hulk of an office building on Capitol Hill, th...

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Curb The Swine Flu: Lose The American Handshake

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living

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Kimberly Brooks

With global travel, chronic antibiotic overuse and an ever greater means by which a virus can spread across the globe, why must we touch hands every time we meet or greet someone?

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Swine Flu: Illinois Has 3 Confirmed Cases, Nearly 100 Probable

AP | Posted 06.03.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- State health officials say Illinois has three confirmed cases of swine flu and 96 probable cases of the illnesses. The Illi...

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Swine Flu 1999: We Were Warned

David Kirby | Posted 06.03.2009 | Green

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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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Swine Flu May Be Less Potent Than First Feared

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 06.02.2009 | World

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ATLANTA — The swine flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ominous. New York City officials reported Friday ...

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The 100 Days of Swine and Roses

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

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Thane Rosenbaum

The first 100 days in the life of an American president has never before been this blistering or eventful.

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Physicians And The H1N1 Flu

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living

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Many of us -- patients and physicians alike -- have been thinking about the influenza virus for about a week. Public health officials like the teams at the CDC that I visited yesterday have been thinking about it for years.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 1, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media

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Hey everybody, did you know that today, there was a mighty Teabagging set for Michigan? Professional poli-sci hobo Joe The Plumber was supposed to be...

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Does Your Food Need a Passport?

Sarah Newman | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

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Don't fret though because there are lots of simple things you can do to ensure you're eating plenty of safe, healthy, local fresh produce rather than unsafe, unsustainable international foods.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iraq's Reversing Facts: Six car bombs strike Shia areas of Baghdad. This is the latest in a series of rec...

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Swine Flu: China Quarantines 300 In Hong Kong Hotel

AP | DIKKY SINN and MIN LEE | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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HONG KONG — Hundreds of tourists and employees were under quarantine in a downtown Hong Kong hotel Saturday after a Mexican guest tested positiv...

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SWINE FLU: Mexican Soccer Player Threatens Rival With Bodily Fluids (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Contributor | Catesby Holmes | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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By Catesby Holmes The panic about swine flu reached a new pinnacle of absurdity this morning when a Mexican soccer player apparently threatened a Chi...

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The Swine Flu Crisis Is Now Over -- or Will Be

Michael Wolff | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living

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Michael Wolff

As the WHO raises its warning to just this side of official pandemic, and Joe Biden tells his family to avoid confined spaces, the backlash is also setting in.

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Swine Flu and Paranoia, North of the Border

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living

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Chantal Sicile-Kira

There were reports of local San Diego residents acting pig-headed and hogging the road more than usual, but so far any connection to the swine flu outbreak has yet to be established.

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Cough, Sneeze, Oink!

Jodi R. R. Smith | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living

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Jodi R. R. Smith

While we would all like to think the world would stop if we were unable to be in the office for the day, this is just not the case. Better to stay home and get well then to be the cause of a local outbreak.

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Swine Flu Warning: Company Told Officials 18 Days Before Alert Was Issued

McClatchy | Les Blumenthal | Posted 05.31.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON -- A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks be...

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Flu Will Likely Kill 3,500 in Illinois

David Ormsby | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago

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David Ormsby

The media and the public need to take a breath. And it can be safely done -- without the mask.

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Cure For Hispanic Hysteria and Swine Flu the Same: Chill Out

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago

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Esther J. Cepeda

The nation has gone from zero to hysterical and the "Dirty Mexicans" everyone has been fretting about since the illegal immigration issue reared its ugly head just got dirtier.

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