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AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu Update With the fall flu season rapidly approaching, a swine flu update is warranted.
AskMen.com	Swine Flu: The Game Dutch researchers have created a free, online-only game that challenges players to control a new pandemic -- swine flu.
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Emily Anthes	Debunking 5 Prevalent Swine Flu Myths Some theories circulating online argue that this combination of strains is so unlikely that the new virus must have been created by humans in a lab and then either accidentally or deliberately released.
Wired January 2006 Thomas Goetz	The Battle to Stop Bird Flu The Bird Flu pandemic has hit New Mexico. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time.
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 Catherine Arnst	What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic.
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Catherine Arnst	A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Brian Orelli	The End of a Swine Flu Era A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended yesterday that next year's seasonal flu vaccine contain the vaccine for the H1N1 virus, aka the swine flu.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Swine Flu Just Isn't Bringing Home the Bacon Looks like that one-time boost from sales of swine flu vaccine may not add much to the bottom lines of vaccine makers like GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, sanofi-aventis, and Novartis.
AskMen.com	1 Million Swine Flu Cases? Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Be Careful What You Wish For Do you have the stomach to profit from swine flu?
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 Weintraub et al.	Swine Flu: The Pandemic That Wasn't Swine flu is waning, but the lessons of H1N1 could come in handy during a more serious epidemic.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Capitalist Pig's View of Swine Flu So you want to make money from the swine flu? Here's how to do so.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Here is a short list of what we do and don't know of swine flu.
American Journal of Nursing July 2007 Victoria J. Davey	Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Striking a balance between risk and preparedness.
Managed Care December 2005 Jack McCain	Flu's Other Cost If the next pandemic is anything like the 1918 outbreak, hospitals could be overburdened, while some small regional health plans might see their membership decimated, or worse.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Rich Duprey	Chiron's Bird Flu Contract As Asian bird flu becomes the crisis du jour, this flu vaccine biotech is awarded a hefty contract.
Scientific American July 2009 Christine Soares	Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs
The Motley Fool March 1, 2011 Brian Orelli	Uncle Sam Gives Novavax a Big Hand Up Cash is everything for a development-stage drugmaker.
AskMen.com	Flu Overhyped? Some Say So The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it.
American History December 2006	Letter : Coming Home to Roost Remembering 1918 and recognizing the catastrophe that could unfold in an age when a virus can cross the globe in a matter of hours has spurred unprecedented international cooperation and planning.
AskMen.com	Swine Flu: Pandemic On The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak appears to have reached pandemic proportions.
Chemistry World January 22, 2013 Andrew Turley	Flu vaccine without the eggs approved Flublok from US biotech Protein Sciences has become the first flu vaccine made using an insect virus to win marketing approval in the US.
AskMen.com	Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Surfaces Health officials have confirmed a case of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself.
Chemistry World February 2006	Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development.
AskMen.com Jen Woodward	False Pandemic Scares While nobody can say for sure if or when another pandemic will strike, these historic false alarms might soothe your fears.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	3 Ways to Play the Swine Flu Outbreak A wider outbreak of swine flu will affect the way consumers spend their money, and it's something that may very well impact your portfolio.
Popular Mechanics July 31, 2007 John Galvin	Spanish Flu Pandemic: 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people around the world -- 34 million more than died from the First World War in progress alongside it.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Kerry Capell	High-Velocity Vaccines PowderMed says its DNA technology would let it react quickly to a flu pandemic. A DNA flu vaccine would have huge advantages over traditional ones. But first, the company must prove in upcoming large-scale clinical trials that its vaccine can protect people from flu generally.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2005 Katherine Burger	Calling in Sick There may be a kind of disaster looming that even the most recovery-savvy businesses have not anticipated -- a major flu outbreak. The implications regarding business continuity plans are as serious as a looming hurricane.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Anthony Tao	The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late?
InternetNews April 28, 2009 Alex Goldman	Swine Flu Breeds Net Resources, Scams The public turns to the Web for information on the outbreak - but scammers are there, as well.
Information Today July 20, 2009	Springer Offers Free Access to Swine Flu Research The articles can be found by using the search term "H1N1." A total of 318 scientific articles will be available to print out or download until Dec. 31, 2009.
Scientific American November 2005	Preparing for the Worst Flu season comes every year as reliably as hurricane season. If America shores up our defenses against both, we will be in a much stronger position when the "big ones" hit.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2003 Alyce Lomax	Glaxo to Tackle SARS The drug giant readies to confront what is either a high-profile threat, or so last year.
American Family Physician September 1, 2006 Gregory Juckett	Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source.
Popular Mechanics January 8, 2010 Erin McCarthy	How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic As far-fetched as the "disease" may be, there are certain steps doctors, scientists and officials always take when analyzing an outbreak.
Health October 2007 Sarah Clachar	Read this BEFORE you get a flu shot The flu vaccine may not be as good -- or as safe -- as you think.
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BusinessWeek October 11, 2004	Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic.
Managed Care February 2005 Jack McCain	Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance?
Chemistry World July 24, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Pharma's shot in the arm? As swine flu cases continue to erupt around the globe, the latest financial results from pharmaceutical companies Roche and GlaxoSmithKline reveal that sales of their antiviral drugs have soared.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2005 Rich Duprey	Will Flu Vaccine Catch Cold? The CDC says we may have as many as 97 million doses this year, but that's a best-case scenario. This year again, it's Chiron causing the uncertainty.
CFO December 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Flu Diligence New software programs help companies gauge the potential business impact of a pandemic. FluWorkLoss... Infectious Disease Modeling... etc.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Swine Flu Can't Save Sanofi No shocker there.
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005	The "Horrific" Economics of Avian Flu A new study looks at what a pandemic could do to the global economy, and it isn't pretty. The lesson: Prepare well -- now.
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The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Rich Duprey	Avian Flu Ruffling Feathers Roche Pharmaceuticals boosts anti-flu drug production to quiet calls for generics. While the situation bears watching for now, it's not necessarily something for investors to get their feathers ruffled about.