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washingtonmonthly.com - 4/27/2009
Monday's Mini-Report
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MONDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * The World Health Organization has issued a phase 4 alert on the swine flu. * There are now a 73 confirmed cases of swine flu worldwide, including 40 in the United States,...
reuters.com - 4/25/2009
Fatal new flu strain threatens Mexico, U.S.
— reuters.com — Catherine Bremer and Stephanie Nebehay MEXICO CITY/GENEVA (Reuters) - A new flu strain that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico could become a pandemic, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday, as health experts tried to track the disease's ... (more) Fatal new flu strain threatens Mexico, U.S.

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biosurveillance.typepad.com - 4/26/2009
Swine Flu in Mexico- Timeline of Events
— biosurveillance.typepad.com — Introduction At Veratect, we operate two operations centers based in the United States (one in the Washington, DC area and one in Seattle, WA) that provide animal and human infectious disease event detection and tracking globally. Both operations ... (more) Swine Flu in Mexico- Timeline of Events

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bloomberg.com - 4/25/2009
Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency Amid Swine Flu Outbreak
— bloomberg.com — April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in his country’s swine flu outbreak, giving him powers to order quarantines and suspend public events. Authorities have canceled school at all levels in Mexico City and ... (more) Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency Amid Swine Flu Outbreak

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Library Grape:  Republicans Use Swine Flu Emergency to Attack Obama

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Republicans Use Swine Flu Emergency to Attack Obama
Library Grape — ... became too voluminous! No one could have predicted that rightwing nutjobs would use the recent concern over the outbreak of swine flu to attack Obama: Exhibit 1: Fred Thompson jumps into the fray with a poll asking whether Obama is overreacting for political gain! C'mon Fred -- let's get a real juicy question up there; how about "Did Obama's secret gay underage boy muslim sex harem infect us with swine flu?" Exhibit 2: Rush Limbaugh sees an elaborate conspiracy to get Americans to ...

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