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Bulgaria Declares Swine Flu Epidemic without vaccinces

"Bulgaria's Chief Epidemiologist, Angel Kunchev, has told the BNT that unfortunately there were no A(H1N1) vaccines available in Bulgaria at the moment but said that medications and vaccines would soon be procured from Germany and Sweden." "Bulgaria's Health Ministry...

Suicide: Desensitization and the "Doctrine of Can't"

            For the fourth time in a little more than four months a student attending California's Palo Alto High School has committed suicide. The most recent occurrence was carried out by jumping in front of...

A epidemic within a false panademic scare - Legionnaires disease

Today the UK government have a big problem with there directives to the health service in reference to H1N1 swine flu. The original hyped up pandemic an elitist global plan to make money out of hype had a flaw....

Pig Cells To Fight Diabetes

A biotech company in New Zealand is conducting experiments using the insulin producing cells of newborn pigs to fight Type 1 Diabetes in humans.They plan to implant the pig cells into human volunteers.  Type 1...

HIV infection rates in South Africa are levelling off

HIV infection rates in South Africa seem to be levelling off at an infection rate of 10.9% for residents over two according to a new study released today. The same study said the rate of infection in teenagers and children could be decreasing as well, perhaps due to the use...

W.H.O. About to Declare a Global Pandemic

The World Health Organization is inching closer to raising the infectious disease alert level for the novel H1N1 influenza outbreak to its highest level, indicating that a pandemic has arrived, but has delayed...

Swine Flu is hitting Japan.

By, Uwe Paschen. Swine Flu is hitting Japan now.  Recently the cases of Swine Flu patients have risen in Japan in spite of quarantines earlier and health alerts. Those affected the most seem to be young and...

Pandemic Alert Levels and Swine Flu Outbreak: Pandemic v Epidemic

The Swine Flu outbreak has people around the world in a panic and scary words like pandemic and epidemic don't help.  So what is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?  And does the Swine Flu outbreak really qualify as either one?  The WHO raised...

Exotic Diseases in the U.S. May Rise

We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S....

Crisis Worsens in Zimbabwe

The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is worsening and without increased foreign assistance the crisis will become a full blown health catastrophe according to Medecins Sans Frontieres international president Dr....

CrossContamination Birdflu and Little change creates Big Danger

By Robert P. Eaton Jr.PLease respect copyright . No use of images is granted with out permission.(2 kids to feed struggling photographer...) See the text embedded in each image for the details... Birdflu in China....

Dementia Will Become an Epidemic in Canada

Dementia could soon become an epidemic in Canada, the national Alzheimer Society warns.  The recent findings of the Canadian Study on Health and Aging have found that within a decade, the number of Canadians...

DOJ Launches Hate Crime Investigation In Suffolk County

" The Department of Justice's criminal civil rights division has opened a formal investigation into hate crimes against Latinos in Suffolk County. The move comes in response to a public outcry following the stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero. The Ecuadorean immigrant was...

2.4m miss work as flu epidemic bites

The first Monday of 2009 proved to be the day that in the UK more people than ever called in sick. 2.4 million people called in sick and most of those reported having flu or cold symptoms. "A RECORD 2.4million...

Cold snap in BC will not kill the Pine Beetle infestation

The recent cold snap in British Columbia comes too late to kill the pine beetle infestation that has plagued the province, mostly the Prince George area, where most pine trees have already been killed. ""It's too...

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