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Can Stuffing Germs up Ferrets Unleash a Human Pandemic? - Discover Magazine

2012-05-18
Discover MagazineCan Stuffing Germs up Ferrets Unleash a Human Pandemic?Discover MagazineThe disease has caused about 340 human deaths in all, raising concerns it might someday unleash a true pandemic. But that has never occurred. The virus is adept at killing chickens and can infect mammals, but it has never spread among them.Designer Flu: How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should knowScience Newsall 2 news articles »

Public weighs in on pandemic antiviral distribution - CIDRAP

2012-05-18
Public weighs in on pandemic antiviral distributionCIDRAPMay 18, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – The Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday shared findings of three public opinion panels on antiviral distribution during a flu pandemic, including a nod for establishing diverse alternative strategies and support for Web ...

Pandemic Influenza Table Top Exercise Begins - AllAfrica.com

2012-05-16
Pandemic Influenza Table Top Exercise BeginsAllAfrica.comThe Burkina Faso Government Pandemic Disaster Response Tabletop Exercise is hosted by the government of Burkina Faso, organized by US Africa Command (AFRICOM), funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Center ...and more »

Coldhearted: The Shot-Blocking 'Pandemic' - Grantland

2012-05-17
Coldhearted: The Shot-Blocking 'Pandemic'Grantland"NHL Home Ice" on SiriusXM radio likened it more to biological warfare, calling it a "pandemic." And Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail found the status quo so dire that it merited a nostalgic trip back to an idea from the mid-'90s that the NHL ...and more »

Once-Banned Bird Flu Study Suggests Pandemic Threat Is Real - U.S. News & World Report

2012-05-02
Globe and MailOnce-Banned Bird Flu Study Suggests Pandemic Threat Is RealU.S. News & World ReportBy Denise Mann WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Data in a formerly banned study detailing how the H5N1 avian (bird) flu virus can morph -- with the possibility that it could spread from person to person and cause a global pandemic -- may help ...Bird flu paper that raised bioterrorism fears publishedChicago TribuneFirst of 2 papers on lab-made bird flu publishedThe Associated PressResearch finally published showing how bird flu virus can spread among mammalsArs Technicaall 374 news articles »

deadly pandemic a matter of when, not if - Sydney Morning Herald

2012-05-15
deadly pandemic a matter of when, not ifSydney Morning HeraldA deadly global pandemic is threatening to devastate the world. It's not a matter of if one will strike; it's just a matter of when. And Australia is not set up as well as it could be to deal with it. The movie Contagion depicted the terrifying ...and more »

High blood pressure a pandemic - iAfrica.com

2012-05-17
High blood pressure a pandemiciAfrica.comOne in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key trigger of heart disease, health experts said on Wednesday while underlining the growing number of cases in developing countries. Canada and the United States have the fewest patients, ...and more »

Pandemic 2.5 Review: A Very Infectious Hit Comes To iPhone And iPad - The APPera

2012-05-16
The APPeraPandemic 2.5 Review: A Very Infectious Hit Comes To iPhone And iPadThe APPeraEradicate mankind by designing and releasing your own disease on the world in this expanded and refined update to the popular game Pandemic 2.” The game is pretty simple. Your goal is to infect the world, so the a map of the world completely takes over ...

Survey: At pandemic's peak, people worried more about seasonal flu - CIDRAP

2012-05-09
Toronto StarSurvey: At pandemic's peak, people worried more about seasonal fluCIDRAPMay 9, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that at the peak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic in the fall of 2009, Americans were more worried about seasonal flu than the pandemic virus, ...How the World Health Organization is Helping to Prevent a Catastrophic H5N1 ...UN DispatchClues to a universal flu vaccine foundNew York Daily NewsBack to The List, part 4Wunderground.com (blog)Infection Control Todayall 98 news articles »

Cognitive dissonance can explain investor actions - NewsOK.com

2012-05-20
Cognitive dissonance can explain investor actionsNewsOK.comThen, for a while during the early part of the pandemic, they go about their lives as before — until reality becomes unavoidable. Even though the people of Oran can see there is something wrong going on around them, they continue to act as if nothing ...and more »

Can Stuffing Germs up Ferrets Unleash a Human Pandemic? | DISCOVER

2012-05-18
The Claim: A lab-concocted strain of ferret flu could become a doomsday weapon or bioterrorist threat. The Contrarian: Wendy Orent, author of Plague , says the much-hyped fears are unfounded: The new strain presents no danger to humans but reveals a great deal about the transmission of flu. Ferrets with the flu sneeze and cough like humans. iStockphoto Deadly H5N1 avian flu , long entrenched in ...

Public weighs in on pandemic antiviral distribution

2012-05-18
May 18, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – The Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday shared findings of three public opinion panels on antiviral distribution during a flu pandemic, including a nod for establishing diverse alternative strategies and support for Web and cell-phone information.

Once-Banned Bird Flu Study Suggests Pandemic Threat Is Real

2012-05-02
WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Data in a formerly banned study detailing how the H5N1 avian (bird) flu virus can morph -- with the possibility that it could spread from person to person and cause a global pandemic -- may help nations prepare for the impending threat.

Flexible response required for pandemic, preparedness session told

2012-05-11
BRENDAN WEDLEY Examiner Staff Writer Being in the Evinrude Centre for a pandemic preparedness session Thursday gave Dr. Rosana Pellizzari the creeps. When the Peterborough County-City Health Unit was hosting a similar exercise there on April 23, 2009 the news started to break of the H1N1 pandemic.[...]

Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic

2012-05-17
In a deadly flu outbreak, shutting airports should reduce the spread of the disease. But networks scientists have discovered a better approach that's just as effective. One of the nightmare scenarios for modern society is the possibility of a global flu pandemic like the 1918 Spanish influenza which infected about a quarter of the global population and killed as many as 130 million of them. 

TNT's Fall: Human Target-ish series plus post-pandemic thriller

2012-05-16
After going full-on sci-fi with the alien-invasion hit Falling Skies , TNT is ramping up a few more sci-fi-ish projects that could make it to air this fall. Among them? A post-pandemic thriller about a virus that takes out half the planet, and a new action drama that sounds quite a bit like Fox's late, comic-based Human Target .

Australia ill-prepared to tackle pandemic, says leading medic

2012-05-18
Australia's former Chief Medical Officer says Australia doesn't have enough specialist medical personnel nor the national coordination necessary to protect its citizens in a pandemic.

Survey: At pandemic's peak, people worried more about seasonal flu

2012-05-09
May 9, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that at the peak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic in the fall of 2009, Americans were more worried about seasonal flu than the pandemic virus, according to a study published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.

Pandemic Potential? Bird Flu Becomes Airborne With Just 4 Mutations

2012-05-02
Bird flu can be transmitted between mammals — and possible humans — needing only four mutations to do so, a new study published this week in the journal Nature suggests. But the mutant virus is not deadly, and the work could show virologists how to combat others like it.

WhatsApp tops UK app charts: Apple

2012-05-18
The WhatsApp messenging system, which allows users to send messages for free, has topped Apple's App Store Official UK charts.

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2012-05-20
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2012-05-20
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2012-05-20
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2012-05-20
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New #android #app: Pandemic II http://t.co/5dPXyDHG

2012-05-20
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Vietnam-Dozens of teachers fever and convulsions/ Suspected Malaria:   Dozens of teachers and students in lower ... http://t.co/QM2yEmLM

2012-05-20
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RT @Frosty_Foster: Meanwhile in madagascar. Hey someone sneezed in mexico what should we do? "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!" ... I love Pandemic

2012-05-20
RT @Frosty_Foster: Meanwhile in madagascar. Hey someone sneezed in mexico what should we do? "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!" ... I love Pandemic

RT @Grifflish: http://t.co/DhZ31wPE so this might be one of the conclusions to be drawn from the brony pandemic

2012-05-20
RT @Grifflish: http://t.co/DhZ31wPE so this might be one of the conclusions to be drawn from the brony pandemic

http://t.co/DhZ31wPE so this might be one of the conclusions to be drawn from the brony pandemic

2012-05-20
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2012-05-20
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Meanwhile in madagascar. Hey someone sneezed in mexico what should we do? "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!" ... I love Pandemic

2012-05-20
Meanwhile in madagascar. Hey someone sneezed in mexico what should we do? "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!" ... I love Pandemic

RT @emmajanehill: fun with @alexbhill @nicholemcl and Molly = public health board game #pandemic #nerds http://t.co/PlywHVYh

2012-05-19
RT @emmajanehill: fun with @alexbhill @nicholemcl and Molly = public health board game #pandemic #nerds http://t.co/PlywHVYh

News: Unknown disease in Quang Ngai: WHO may be invited to the:   On 17-5, in the written replies to the press, ... http://t.co/7cLBLpib

2012-05-19
News: Unknown disease in Quang Ngai: WHO may be invited to the:   On 17-5, in the written replies to the press, ... http://t.co/7cLBLpib

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2012-05-19
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New comment: Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic http://t.co/UOdl4yXj

2012-05-19
New comment: Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic http://t.co/UOdl4yXj