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A month ago today, the world turned upside down in Mexico. What was the cause? Swine Flu. The world was ending, everyone would die, and contagions lurked in every corner.
The nation went on lockdown. There would no longer be public meetings,...
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Swine flu hysteria may be making a come back. The Center for Disease Control, a federal agency, has reported that 1 million Americans have contacted Swine flu virus or...
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The Tunisian government has announced that the first case of H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, has been registered in the country. Such a case is the first in the Maghreb...
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Health officials assuring citizens of availability of swine flu medicines. Over the past weekend, mobile phone text messages were sent with the message that swine flu...
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Throughout the Second World War Eton College was adamant it would not close its doors as a result of any threat from the Germans. It would not, its then headmaster...
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Filed under: Video, News, Health, Science Conspiracy Alert! A researcher who worked on the team that developed Tamiflu — a drug that treats the flu, and would be...
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How do you explain ignorance, racism, and pandemics to a child? I remember watching national news coverage of the H1N1/Swine flu/Killer Mexican flu outbreak in...
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1) Starving nations won’t accept your ship with 77 tons of humanitarian aid.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has turned away a Mexican ship carrying...
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The Tunisian security service is tired. After running out of journalists, human rights activists, and their lawyers to abuse, they have turned sights on wild boar....
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I thought long and hard over this one and I can safely say I thought Egypt was flipping out a little when it came to the reaction undertaken towards the whole swine flu...
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Lunatic risk assessment can seriously damage your health (and economy, and freedom).
Swine flu has been in headlines nearly two weeks. The media hype is not in any...
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Pending Apple approval is a new free app for the iPhone and iPod touch that will allow users to track the Swine Flu “outbreak.”
Created by Barry Schwartz,...
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The Plague was on her way to Baghdad when she came across an old man. He asked, “Where are you going”? The Plague answered, “To Baghdad to kill 10,000...
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What started as a killer swine/bird/human mystery flu in Mexico city last week and spreading first throughout the nation, then the continent, and now globe is slowly...
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The swine flu is the hottest thing on the news today. Every channel that you tune in to, every news web site, and most blogs will cover something related to the swine...
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There are Muslims, in the United States, who actually pray Allah destroys America. I’m not sure if that is religious zeal clouding their mental faculties or...
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Israel was the first Middle Eastern country to record an outbreak of swine flu or at least a case since only one Israeli is known to have been infected. Such an...
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How do you explain ignorance, racism, and pandemics to a child? I remember watching national news coverage of the H1N1/Swine flu/Killer Mexican flu outbreak in...
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A World Health Organization spokesman says the agency may raise its pandemic level to its highest alert, signifying a swine flu pandemic.
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The Plague was on her way to Baghdad when she came across an old man. He asked, “Where are you going”? The Plague answered, “To Baghdad to kill 10,000...
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AP, Washington
The U.S. is following a playbook in battling the new swine flu, a federal pandemic preparedness plan prepared in 2005.
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Some commonly used pandemic phrases.
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Ulta pulta America!
It is the ultimate insult to an American. There was a time when the US government used to issue travel advisories to its citizens not to travel...
made popular Apr 30 2009
I wasn’t scared when my Governor decided to cancel all school and public events due to the Swine Flu outbreak, in fact, as a teacher, I secretly welcomed the...
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This was sent in by a reader.
I’m not sure where it came from but the message is clear!
In 1965, there were 53 million hogs on more than 1 million US farms....
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The World Health Organization has six phases of pandemic alert to assess the potential for a new global flu outbreak.
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Pandemic flu, not terrorism, is the most serious risk to the U.K. public, says Britain’s first ever national threat assessment, published on Friday.
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Pandemic Studios has just released a teaser video on their new game Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Not only does it look cool, but it makes me want to actually buy it....
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The world still faces a substantial threat of a flu pandemic and countries need to speed up preparations for a global outbreak, health experts said Tuesday.”We...
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