Bad Economy, World Crisis, and Fear Impacting Emergency Food Supplies No matter what you believe, many Americans are suffering from fear of the unknown. Political concerns, economic downturns, inflation, world unrest, rising gas prices, and a US dollar being inflated, are just some of the issues causing it. The reaction to all of this has [...]
Bed Bugs Bed Bug Profile Bed bugs belong to the insect order Hemiptera, the true bugs, most of which are winged insects adapted to sucking plant sap. One family of this order, Cimicidae, has evolved as wingless, blood-sucking parasites on warm-blooded hosts. There are 91 species in this family of ectoparasites (parasites that live on [...]
The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, yesterday suggested the swine flu pandemic alert would eventually move to its highest level. But the woman in charge of the global fight against the H1N1 outbreak said a move to level six should not be taken as a cause for panic. “Level six does not [...]
Swine flu cases reached 1,085 worldwide, spreading to 21 countries and every major region of the U.S., health officials said. The symptoms, no more serious than those of seasonal flu, may worsen as seasons change. In the U.S., the H1N1 virus has been confirmed by laboratory tests in 286 patients in each of nine regions [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new H1N1 swine flu has infected 286 people in 36 U.S. states and it is likely to spread to every state, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday. Most cases remain mild but 35 have been hospitalized, the CDC’s acting director, Dr. Richard Besser, told a news [...]
Doctors tracking swine flu in California are investigating a new theory: What if it didn’t originate in Mexico but instead had been floating around the border region for months? Growing evidence in California suggests that early flu cases had no apparent origin in Mexico. Many of the early California victims — including the first two [...]
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top epidemiologist says the World Health Organization was slow to react to an outbreak of atypical pneumonia that grew into the swine flu epidemic, and wants a probe. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana says he is troubled by the response of the Pan American Health [...]
U.S. authorities are pledging to eventually produce enough swine flu vaccine for everyone but the shots couldn’t begin until fall at the earliest. Worries about the spread of the virus mounted Thursday as the nation’s swine flu caseload reached 130, and nearly 300 schools closed in communities across the country. On Friday, the World Health [...]
WASHINGTON — A security aide helping with arrangements during President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Mexico became sick with flu-like symptoms and three members of his family later contracted probable swine flu, the White House said Thursday. The disclosure from press secretary Robert Gibbs comes days after the White House played down risks to the [...]
What is H1N1 (swine flu)? H1N1 (swine flu) is a type of influenza (flu) virus that causes respiratory disease that can spread between people. Most people infected with this virus in the United States have had mild disease, but some have had more severe illness, and there has been at least one death. Young children, [...]
