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3 die in central Europe of swine flu
Three people have died in Romania and Macedonia after being infected with the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu, the two countries’ health ministries said Thursday. “Two people have died from the H1N1 flu,” Romania’s state secretary of health, Alexandru Rafila, announced on private TV network Antena 3. The…
U.S. officials warn of swine flu outbreak at county fairs
US health officials on Friday warned the public to be careful around pigs after an outbreak of flu among visitors to county fairs. The virus does not appear to have evolved to the point where it spreads easily among humans, but it does contain a gene from the pandemic H1N1…
Swine flu likely claimed quarter of a million lives: study
The A(H1N1) “swine flu” 2009 pandemic probably claimed over a quarter of a million lives — 15 times more than the 18,500 reported, a paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal said Tuesday. The elevated toll underlined the need for better planning and vaccine distribution, said a team of epidemiologists…
Nine in Mexico dead from A(H1N1) swine flu
The death toll in Mexico from an outbreak of A(H1N1) swine flu has hit nine, with 573 cases detected, officials said Sunday. The strain represents some 90 percent of detected cases of influenza in the country, the health ministry said in a statement. The number of cases reported was up…
Like it or not, flu shots work
This is super interesting. (Via.) The NY Times is understandably fascinated by the cultural and effort-related aspects of this story, which involves a bunch of researchers swooping in and using an isolated religious farming communities to conduct a test on disease transmission, but the results of the test are just…
When life resembles The Onion
For those of us who’ve been pushing back against anti-vaccination hysteria—most of it coming from the left—I think there’s an inevitable sense that the whole anti-vaccination thing is so nutty that it’s inevitable that it’s going to be picked up by the right wing, the home of most nutty conspiracy…
You don’t need to eat a veggie burger to be grossed out by poo lagoons
I’m going to be sharing my environmental posts at this brand spanking new community environmentalist blog The Clade, which was started by former Pandagon contributor Chris Clarke. I highly recommend checking it out and adding it to your RSS feed, and contributing if you have useful environmental news or opinions.…
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