Prevention and Understanding the Swine Flu aka H1N1 virusimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/trarticles/~4/sS_VhgejsVE height=1 width=1/
All the tips and tools we use in our home to survive cold flu season. Some you've tried and some will likely be new. See what works for you.img src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/trarticles/~4/CsJVpg6iXD8 height=1 width=1/
Oct
25
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President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October
Oct
22
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A flock of 3000 breeder turkeys has become sick with bacon flu. And once again, we see an article that fails to report the one salient fact: any time this virus jumps the species barrier, you’re risking a public health catastrophe. The worry is that the bacon flu could combine with a virus from a turkey suffering from a different flu, mutating into something both highly contagious and frequently deadly. And once again, we see a government responding to this threat by lying to its citizens:
Oct
20
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I haven’t had the flu since I was a kid. I never get flu shots. I wasn’t planning on getting an H1N1 shot when it becomes available but after listening to yesterday’s Midmorning show on MPR, I find myself now considering it. Medical myths and H1N1 . Are you going to get the shot or not? gt; Public health officials are trying to figure out why a majority of Americans, including many public health nurses and doctors, have told pollsters recently they are wary of the H1N1 vaccine. W