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Why Washington Fears Increase In Severe Storms

April 28, 2011

The worst severe weather  in 40 years and the possibility of more to come has made Washington rethink current federal agencies’ response.  Expert insiders have told ButAsForMe that the CDC is being brought into the discussion on how best to collect needed information in order to prepare for and survive severe storms such as  tornadoes.  At [...]

Tagged as: CDC, Climate Change, FEMA, Government preparedness, NOAA, Possible Increase In Storms Summer 2011, severe weather, tornadoes

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SuperBug From India Now In U.S.

September 24, 2010

California,Illinois, and Massachusetts have recorded and isolated cases of bacteria carrying gene that makes it resistant to known antiobiotics. Read More Here 

Tagged as: Bacteria, Bacteria Transfer Drug Resistance, CDC, Globa, NDM-1, Superbug Alert

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While CDC Projects That The Peak of H1N1 Is Over, Reports Of Person-to-PersonTamiflu Resistance Found In The U.S.

November 21, 2009

In  the midst of CDC reporting in a decline in the number of H1N1 patients, what would seem like good news, is being kept in check by new cases that are resistant to the current  popular antiviral Tamiflu. By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY Epidemic experts say they are investigating the apparent spread of Tamiflu-resistant swine [...]

Tagged as: Antiviral resistance, CDC, Duke University, H1N1, North Carolina, Pandemic, Person-to-Person Transmission, swine flu, Virus reassortment

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Hunting For Swine Flu Vaccine

November 19, 2009

By Maggie Mertens for NPR The swine flu vaccine remains scarce, but is slowly becoming a little less difficult to find. Some people are getting the vaccine at doctors’ offices, some at college health centers, and some at public flu clinics. You’re best bet will depend on where you live. As KQED’s Sarah Varney reports [...]

Tagged as: CDC, Distribution of vaccine, flu.gov, H1N1 flu vaccine, Health and Human Services, Health Care, Lieberman, Location of Swine Flu vaccine, NPR, Obama, swine flu, vaccine

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If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse*

November 18, 2009

[Commentary printed by The China Post* ref. post Playing Chicken With A Nightmare Flu by Alan Sipress The Washington Post] When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone [...]

Tagged as: Africa and flu, Asia and Flu, CDC, Egypt, Keiji Fikuda, Margaret Chan, Mexico, Pandemic, swine flu, Swine Flu and Avian Flu, U.S., Virus reassortment, W.H.O.

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Is H1N1 Obama’s Katrina?

October 22, 2009

Fox News has depicted the H1N1 vaccine and the peak of the influenza as ships passing in the night.  The fact of the matter is the H1N1 vaccine will not be available for most of us, at least in this first go around, to make a measurable difference, since the spread of the disease has [...]

Tagged as: antivirals, butasforme.com, CDC, Europe and flu, flu peak, flu strains, Fox News, h1n1 vaccine, h1n1 vaccine production, Minnesota Department of Health Nurse Triage Help Line, Obama, pandemic preparedness, Reformed Liberal, swine flu, Tamiflu

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