Genome analysis sheds light on swine flu origins - and high-speed science http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/05/genome_analysis_sheds_light_on.html The posting of analyses of the flu...
W.H.O. Plans to Rewrite Its Rules for Declaring a Pandemic http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/health/policy/23who.html?_r=1&ref=world There are some interesting things of note in this article....
Scientific pulication is a strange business, and in fact it is just like a business. There is much competition. Lots of prestige and/or money goes to he who publishes first. Often only the WHO...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05/21/content_7918678.htm Swine flu is now being reported in Beijing according to WHO. No one knows what will happen if the this virus meets up with bird flu....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/nyregion/21kids.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss What a surprise! Kids being kids are not going to stay home unsupervised so now they will bringing swine flu...
When is a pandemic not a pandemic? http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090521/full/news.2009.501.html?s=news_rss Africa has poor surveillance systems and many health challenges. We already know that swine...
http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2009/05/h1n1-in-europe-hiding-in-plain-sight.html Exactly. Let's pretend it is not happening. Don't test because it is too much trouble or too expensive. In the EU, make...
Defining a Pandemic http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/05/20/9518076-cp.html Will WHO revise their own definition of what a pandemic is, yet again? Their first definition likely had more to do...
Getting Better in New YorK? http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/05/20/2009-05-20_what_will_it_take_to_close_the_schools_bloomy_officials_making_it_up_as_they_go_.html They sound kind of annoyed...
What do you think? It had been steadily about 47% only for those agreeing to work until the current outbreak was announced as mild. Then, it began to creep up. Not a bad thing in my mind as someone...
second wave of h1n1 flu feared in the fall http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703113 i do not understand the part about no antibodies. how can that be? oh, wait one, she means that we as novel hosts...
Etobicoke man's 'mild' case of H1N1 landed him in intensive care unit after 12 days of mounting pain http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/635351 Most cases continue to be mild but, it can look like...
Husband of South Texas schoolteacher who died with swine flu says she was healthy before virus http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-ap-us-swine-flu-texas,0,7610385.story...
Sanofi, Glaxo Must Get Ready for Swine Shot, WHO Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aTZfnknCRnJg&refer=uk Producing Enough Swine Flu Vaccine for Everybody? Now that...
More US School Closings http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1VVMTGBF9NU&refer=worldwide This has got to be very difficult for working parents. I cannot imagine how some people...