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Scientific American
July 2009
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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   |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
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Plague fears A bioterrorism expert talks about the wicked ways of anthrax and the even deadlier potential scourge of smallpox... |
| 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. |
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. |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Pamela Weintraub |
Be prepared? Taking precautions against bioterrorism may not be as futile as you think... |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2007
Catherine Arnst |
Superbugs: Where Are the Wonder Drugs? Antibiotics are losing the battle against superbugs, and drugmakers are slow to replenish the arsenal. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Swine Flu Update With the fall flu season rapidly approaching, a swine flu update is warranted. |
National Defense
July 2009 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories 7 Deadly Myth article draws comment. |
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. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2001 |
Avoiding Resistance to Antibiotics-- When Do I Need an Antibiotic? When bacteria are exposed to the same antibiotics, after a while the antibiotic can't fight the germs anymore... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
4 Future Plagues What future plagues await us? Let's have a look. |
Health
June 19, 2009
Ginny Graves |
How to Combat the Latest Supergerms While some germs may be outpacing our ability to kill them, we're not completely defenseless. In fact, there are plenty of things we can do to slow their spread. |
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. |
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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. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Thomas Goetz |
The Ultimate Diagnostic Device (By the Way, You've Got Drug-Resistant TB!) The CDC's goal of a tuberculosis-free society grew short due to the development of drug-resistant strains. But new standards for detection are in the works. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Most Contagious Diseases Super-contagious diseases spread like wildfire. The best way to battle any of these nasty bugs is to avoid them altogether. Keep your eyes open for these most-unwanted diseases, and stay healthy. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2004 |
Antibiotics: When They Can and Can't Help An overview on how antibiotic therapy comes into play in the treatment of the flu and colds. |
Searcher
March 2002
Eva Perkins |
Bioterrorism Resources on the Internet: A Primer What is bioterrorism? Which organizations and governmental agencies publish in this area? Using the power of the beloved Internet, one can easily and quickly access a wealth of information. Here's how to do it... |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Robin Marantz Henig |
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2006 |
When Antibiotics Can Help A consumer's guide: What are antibiotics?... How do antibiotics work?... What is antibiotic resistance?... How can I prevent antibiotic resistance?... |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
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A Safer Shot at TB While trying to understand tuberculosis bacteria genes, researchers discovered a safe way to shut down the bacteria. |
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. |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
The invisible nightmare Biological weapons are not that hard to produce, says a sober new book written before Sept. 11 -- and they're getting easier all the time... |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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Swine Flu: The Game Dutch researchers have created a free, online-only game that challenges players to control a new pandemic -- swine flu. |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2012
James Urquhart |
Rediscovered Native American remedy kills poxvirus An extract of the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea halted viral replication. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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Swine Flu: Pandemic On The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak appears to have reached pandemic proportions. |
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. |
