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[Top Canadian Health News] Infections - Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment - Medbroadcast: Some people worry the constant refrain that swine flu is mild may be keeping people who are becoming severely ill from seeking care as soon as they should. They also worry young people - the demographic least likely to get a shot for seasonal flu - may decide they don't need to bother when H1N1 vaccine is ready.

[Toronto Mike's Blog] Don't Tell My Wife About the Swine Flu | Toronto Mike's Blog: Hospitals tested patients with flu symptoms for the never-before-seen virus, which has also infected eight people in the United States. No further deaths had come to light since Friday afternoon, but officials warned the person-to-person infections meant there was a risk of a major outbreak.

[Marvel News] Move over, Captain Trips””meet six deadly diseases that shook the ...: THE OUTBREAK: First spotted in a schoolteacher in Yambuku, Zaîre in 1976, Ebola seized the public imagination due to the gruesomeness of its symptoms and its astonishingly high fatality rate—up to 90% in some outbreaks of the most lethal strain, Ebola-Zaîre. Fortunately, that level of lethality, and the fact that there is only one reported case of airborne transmission of the virus (among lab monkeys in Reston, Virginia), have kept the disease from reaching pandemic proportions.

[Tits and Bits] Swine flu conspiracy theory on the go - Tits and Bits: Much of the concern over the swine flu – at least as it pertains to stock markets – comes from a World Bank report last year, which said that a H1N1 flu pandemic could (repeat: could) kill 71 million people worldwide and knock $3-trillion from the world's gross domestic product, or 4.8 per cent. In 1918, the Spanish flu killed 50 million people worldwide.

[The Stranger: Slog] What To Do with Swine Flu | Slog | The Stranger: An effort to recreate the 1918 flu strain (a subtype of avian strain H1N1) was a collaboration among the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York; the effort resulted in the announcement (on October 5, 2005) that the group had successfully determined the virus's genetic sequence, using historic tissue samples recovered from a female flu victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost and samples preserved from American soldiers.[38]

[MBN:The Monte Bubbles Network, soon to be your source for news on the net] UNITED NATIONS NEWS: Laboratory results show that a recent wave of bird flu in poultry in Thailand and Laos was the result of both old and new strains of the H5N1 virus, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said today, calling for vigorous implementation of control measures to prevent further spread of the disease. The FAO says last month’s outbreak in Thailand’s Pichit province was caused by the same strain that has been circulating in the area since 2003, meaning the virus has become endemic to the region.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Fourth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: Victoria state police said in a statement Monday that following extensive examinations they believe the fires are "an obvious byproduct of Al-Qaeda encampments" and that "as Al-Qaeda brings more forces in to the outback" that we can expect to see more of these occurrences. The police have said that they don't believe the fires were intentionally started, but were the result of "live fire training and improper fire safety."

[Palashbiswaskl's Weblog] CARBON BUSINESS BUSINESS CARBON « Palashbiswaskl's Weblog: According to the World Health Organisation, H5N1 bird flu has infected more than 390 people in 15 countries and killed at least 247 of them since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003. (Reporting by Sujoy Dhar, Editing by Krittivas Mukherjee/Tony Austin)

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