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vancouversun.com - 4/29/2009
Too much knowledge can exaggerate the danger of a pandemic
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Amid the uncertainty over whether this swine flu outbreak will expand from a serious Mexican epidemic into the global pandemic long expected by public health authorities, one thing is certain. As events unfold, the public will know more about the viral disease, its progress through human ...
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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mediamatters.org - 4/28/2009
Paranoia pandemic: Conservative media baselessly blame swine flu outbreak on immigrants
— mediamatters.org — Conservative media personalities have baselessly blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border, despite the... fact that several reports have indicated that U.S. swine flu patients had recently traveled to Mexico. (more) Paranoia pandemic: Conservative media baselessly blame ...

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action.seiu.org - 4/27/2009
GOP: Playing Politics with a Flu Pandemic
— action.seiu.org — Tell the GOP: We need an HHS Secretary now . News is breaking of multiple cases of... swine flu throughout the United States. Reports now say that Americans in New York, Kansas and Texas have been infected. Officials are bracing for a pandemic. The ... (more) GOP: Playing Politics with a Flu Pandemic

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Opinionator:  Morning Skim: Fearing Flu? North Korea? Bad Banks? Don't Panic

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Barcepundit (English edition) — ... YET MORE PERSPECTIVE on the swine flu outbreak and the surrounding alarmism.

Morning Skim: Fearing Flu? North Korea? Bad Banks? Don't Panic
Opinionator — Vancouver Sun : Stephen Hume looks at the data from the 1918 flu epidemic in a more positive light: You might observe, for example, that they mean that even during the worst ravages of the 1918 flu, 97.5 per cent of those infected survived and recovered. Or that 72 per cent of the population — even in the absence of the sophisticated public health planning and infrastructure that Canada and the U.S. have since built — was not infected during the pandemic. So, even if we had a repeat of the 1918 flu, the chances were seven out of 10 that you wouldn’t catch it and if you did, ...

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Swine Flu has 'pandemic potential'
briefingroom.thehill.com 4/25/2009 — The swine flu outbreak in Mexico could become a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said this morning. "It has pandemic potential," said Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, according to the Washington Post. "It is infecting people." "The ...
FLU UPDATE: Experts to advise WHO on pandemic alert phase. “International experts will convene on …
pajamasmedia.com 4/26/2009 — FLU UPDATE: Experts to advise WHO on pandemic alert phase. “International experts will convene on Tuesday to advise the World Health Organisation (WHO) whether to raise the current pandemic alert level due to the new flu virus in Mexico and ...
Pandemic Preparedness
thenation.com 4/27/2009 — John Nichols Republicans stripped $900 million in pandemic preparedness funds from the stimulus bill. Now Mexico's swine flu outbreak is a US emergency.
Susan Collins and Pandemic Flu
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/27/2009 — Boy, it sure is great that Susan Collins made sure we didn’t waste any money on pandemic flu preparations in the Recovery Act. That’s moderation I can believe in!
GOP Attacked Pandemic Preparation in Stimulus
librarygrape.com 4/27/2009 — Seriously, is there anything the GOP can't screw up right about now ? When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation , included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year's emergency stimulus ...
Schumer opposed flu pandemic funding in stimulus, too, you morons
michellemalkin.com 4/27/2009 — Sorry to interrupt all the liberal blogosphere’s unhinged GOP-bashing over opposition to flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill, but. [...] Read the rest »
By pushing for pandemic preparedness cuts, Collins helped finish what Vitter started.
thinkprogress.org 4/27/2009 — Given the recent outbreak of swine flu, Sen. Susan Collins's (R-ME) push to strip funding for pandemic flu preparedness is looking increasingly shortsighted . But Collins was not the first to campaign against the provision. Indeed, several days prior ...
Collins, Schumer opposed pandemic flu funding in stimulus
briefingroom.thehill.com 4/27/2009 — Whoops. Seems that in her effort to pare down President Obama's stimulus plan, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) specifically called out pandemic flu preparedness as unnecessary. "I think everybody in the room is concerned about a pandemic flu," Collins ...
Collins, Republicans, Killed Off Enhanced Pandemic Preparedness
dailykos.com 4/28/2009 — Hey, remember during the negotiations over the stimulus bill, when those prudent Senate Republicans extorted Obama to indulge their budgetary fetishes but still championed preparedness for an influenza pandemic? No, of course you don't, because the ...
Can Swine Flu Stimulate the Economy?
corner.nationalreview.com 4/28/2009 — Over at The Nation, John Nichols has written an extremely long and extremely hyperbolic post -- GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness -- over the fact that several Republicans argued against (and succeeded in getting Democrats to remove) an ...
Karl Rove, conservative Republicans, and Susan Collins opposed money spent on pandemic preparedness
americablog.com 4/28/2009 — Now that we're in the middle of a public health emergency , the media might want to be asking the Republicans some questions about this : When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed ...