My Top Eight News Stories For 2009

            It seems as if, at this time of the years, little tots and small kids are not the only ones making lists. The media is quite adept at...

Pet Cat Diagnosed with Swine Flu: What Could This Mean?

A pet cat in Iowa, in the United States was diagnosed with swine flu, the H1N1 virus, which it apparently caught from one of the people living in the house who was diagnosed with the flu as well. The 13-year-old...

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...

H1N1 (Swine Flu) - Keeping A World Perspective

References and External Hyper Links: Influenza: H1N1 at the Open Directory Project Swine influenza at the World Health Organization International Society for Infectious Diseases PROMED-mail news updates H1N1flue resource centre of The Lancet ...

Swine flu vaccine supplier has to pay back millions

" Baxter, the US pharmaceutical giant, reached at least seven huge settlements over the past 12 months, some of them for millions of dollars. The company had been accused of fraud amid allegations that it had overpriced medicines by as much as 1,300%. " Baxter, isn't this...

Austin Air Purifiers on the Today Show

Is your home making you sick?

Government virus expert paid £116k. The Swine flue scam unfolds!

" A scientist who advises the Government on swine flu is a paid director of a drugs firm making hundreds of millions of pounds from the pandemic. Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group...

Swine flu has killed over 700, WHO says

World Health Organization (WHO) says the H1N1 swine flu has killed more than 700 people. The death toll has increased with 300 since the beginning of the month. WHO is currently researching for ways to slow the...

WHO declares swine flu pandemic

"he World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting.It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world with rising cases being seen in the UK, Australia, Japan and Chile. WHO chief Dr Margaret...

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...

New Infectious Disease Found in China: Similar To AIDS/HIV

A new form of an infectious disease found in China has simialr properties to AIDS and HIV, however there are differences aswell.  Symptoms include fatigue, chronic diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, and weakened...

Nations urge WHO to change criteria for pandemic (H1N1 Swine Flu)

" GENEVA – Dozens of countries urged the World Health Organization on Monday to change its criteria for declaring a pandemic, saying the agency must consider how deadly a virus is — not just how far it spreads across the globe. Fearing a swine flu pandemic declaration...

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...

US demands royalties on influenza A(H1N1) Mexican swine flu vacci

An intergovernmental meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has failed to reach an agreement on sharing influenza virus research material and access to vaccines, with the US placing profits ahead of the threat of wide-scale, world-wide deaths from the current...

First American dies of H1N1 INFLUENZA A

According to ABC On-Line news there has been an unfortunate first death of an American unidentified woman who lived near the Mexican border in Texas.  The woman who lived in the town of Harlingen,...

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