Swine Flu - WHO Cares
justoneminute.typepad.com 4/26/2009 — If you are having trouble staying awake and staring at the ceiling all night, add the swine flu to your list of worries: Swine Flu Could Cause Pandemic, WHO Says By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 25,...
Swine Flu: U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency
themoderatevoice.com 4/26/2009 — PANIC vs WISDOM
No panic. Get facts. Here are some of the most salient:
STAYING UP TO DATE ABOUT SWINE FLU and HEALTH ISSUES
Rather than placing here materials about Swine Flu that are being updated by the moment, Google is your friend for most ...
Yet another thing from the 70s I can live without
firedoglake.com 4/27/2009 —
Ford gets his Swine Flu Shot
In a scene out of Lou Dobbs jingoistic dreams an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico has spread to the United States , Canada and other nations and sent thousands into a "we're all going to die" frenzy de jour ...
Make Yourself Miserable
discourse.net 4/27/2009 — H1N1 Swine Flu Map .
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
Key:
Pink markers are suspect
Purple markers are confirmed
Deaths lack a dot in marker
RSS Feed of new H1N1 Swine Flu Cases
Amazingly, there are none near here yet. Diseases don’t usually work like that.
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Swine flu politics
balloon-juice.com 4/28/2009 — Predictably enough , wingers are trying to turn the swine flu outbreak into a way to bash immigrants.
It will be interesting to see if the Village goes into “Obama needs to do something to stop the swine flu.” I’m not sure if ...
Bachmann: Swine Flu Happens Under Dem Presidents
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/28/2009 — Michele Bachmann is at it again: Attributing flu pandemics to Democratic presidents.
Bachmann did an interview with the right-wing Pajamas Media , and had this to say:
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine ...
With Eye on Industry, Ag Secretary Stops Calling Outbreak 'Swine Flu'
voices.washingtonpost.com 4/29/2009 — By Spencer S. Hsu U.S. officials were on message today: It's no longer "swine flu" that Mexican and global health authorities are fighting, but the "2009 H1N1 virus outbreak." "This really isn't swine flu. It's H1N1 virus," Agriculture Secretary Tom ...
Congressional Flu? [Dan Collins]
proteinwisdom.com 4/30/2009 — Officials want to remove the word “swine” from the name of the flu , for fear that it will hurt the pork industry. Mexican Flu is also not kosher, of course. MedFlu isn’t fair to medflies, either. Hannitizer Flu does seem unfair to ...
The Name Game
corner.nationalreview.com 4/30/2009 — Along the lines of Jay's post on the corruption of language, the name for the flu is mutating faster than the virus itself. First "swine flu." Then that was insulting to Jews and Muslims, so the World Health Organization decide it should be called the ...
How Health Care Reform Would Help Contain The Swine Flu
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 4/30/2009 — Under the ‘ what should I do if I get sick ‘ section of the CDC’s ‘Swine Flu and You’ page, the agency writes that “if you live in areas where swine influenza cases have been identified and become ill with ...
Normal Flu
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/30/2009 —
If I were to say that this year 30,000 Americans would die from the flu, you’d probably think I was offering an alarmist take on the current swine flu outbreak. In fact, I would be offering an extremely optimistic take on influenza in 2009. ...
Obama Security Member Has Suspected Case Of Swine Flu
huffingtonpost.com 4/30/2009 — A member of the security advance team for President Obama's recent trip to Mexico is suspected of having contracted the swine flu, a senior White House official says.
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Swine Flu: Clearing Up The Numbers
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 5/1/2009 — As we try to figure out just how concerned to be about swine flu (yeah, we're still calling it that, even if Obama won't ), the key indicator we're all looking at is the scale of the outbreak in Mexico, where all this appears to have begun (though ...
Hysteria Du Jour
rightwingnation.com 5/2/2009 — Seems to be swine flu (oh my God, we’re all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and I was going to throw up some snark about the idiots who are panting and fainting about it, but JimmyB has done an excellent job . Why mess with perfection?
We do flu ...
Numbers Coming Into Focus
talkingpointsmemo.com 5/2/2009 — We have some more tentatively encouraging news emerging about the Swine Flu virus.
Yesterday, we noted that the Mexican government had substantially revised downward the number of deaths attributed to the Swine Flu, from 159 to 84, after tests ...
New Flu Scourge Targets Vegetarians (Satire) —
Politics Daily
We have terrifying news for our vegetarian readers who thought that they were safe from the ravages of Swine Flu. First, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has announced via Twitter that the Swine Flu is not caused by pork consumption, and he demands that you " Eatup. Regardless of epidemic " ...
Getting A Little Perspective On The Flu —
The Moderate Voice
Let me begin by saying that I do recognize that the current swine flu outbreak is serious and it is important for us to be cautious in dealing with it. It is also quite appropriate for the media to give significant coverage to the topic and for all of us to be prepared. The government should be ...
Another Nominee for My “Hope they Get the Flu” List —
Daily Pundit
SWINE-FLU HYSTERIA: WHO DUNNIT - New York Post
It’s true that a crash vaccine-manufacturing program could blunt a second flu wave, if there is one. (Historically, flu pandemics have come in two or three waves, lasting 13 to 23 months.) But such a swine-flu vaccine would necessarily be ...
Swine Flu Halts Aid Ship —
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Can we seriously stop this already? A U.S. navy vessel has halted an aid mission to the South Pacific because one sailor has developed the swine flu/bacon flu/North American flu/H1N1/most current strain of influenza.
The BBC:
The US navy is postponing an aid mission to the South ...
More Details on the Texas Woman Who Died of Swine Flu —
The Glittering Eye
The name of the woman who died of swine flu has been released . She has been identified as Judy Dominguez Trunnell, a 33 year old U. S. citizen and resident of Cameron County, Texas. The nature of the underlying health conditions that contributed to her death have not been revealed due to ...
Second swine flu death —
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The swine flu has claimed the life of a second U.S. citizen. The Washington Post reports that a woman in the southernmost part of Texas died earlier this week.
The first U.S. swine flu death occurred last week when a Toddler died in a Houston hospital.
Government authorities now say there are ...
The Furious Evolution of the Swine Flu Virus —
Little Green Footballs
At the New York Times, Carl Zimmer has a fascinating — and frightening — article on the evolution of the swine flu virus, and the efforts of virologists to unlock its secrets: The 10 Genes of a Human Flu Virus, Furiously Evolving .
The current outbreak shows how complex and ...
Swine Flu Timeline —
The Glittering Eye
Today Reuters has published an illuminating timeline for swine flu. It begins in mid-March when Mexican health authorities began to notice an unexpectedly high number of flu cases. I won’t reproduce the whole thing here but rather commend it to your attention.
Today I’m going to ...
Submit Your Cinco De Mayo Swine Flu Mask —
The Latest on Air America
It turns out swine flu has claimed several more victims, in the form of Cinco de Mayo celebrations around the US. Well here at Air America, we refuse to let a little global pandemic stop us from getting our drink on. That's why we're holding a contest to find designs for a Cinco de Mayo Swine ...
Correction: Navy swine flu story
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Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - In a May 8 story about sailors with swine flu, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Navy, reported erroneously that 18 sailors had swine flu. A Navy spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. John M. Daniels, said Saturday that total should not have ...
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