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Guns, Germs & Steel: 2009 Edition

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If you haven't read Jared Diamond's fantastic, explain-all-of-human-history epic book, do yourself a favor and pick it up. Lately, his theories have been going through my head more than ever given the recent headlines, that ring like odd historical echoes. As for guns, we have today's killings at Ft. Hood military base. In [...]
 
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  • Wow. That is really, really scary. 63%! 30-90K deaths! How awful. It also means that every American will know somebody who catches this. Good thing I'm nice and safe in Afghanistan.read » P.J. Tobia
 
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  • P.J., Mortality rates are higher with H1N1 than with regular flu. In addition, it appears that it has a higher infection rate. 63% of the U.S. population, according to a Purdue University study, [...]read » David Knowles
 
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  • Great stuff David, I liked the AOL piece too. One question, are people more likely to die from swine flu than other strains of flu? If so, why? The impression I got from your story was that swine [...]read » P.J. Tobia
 
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  • There is no health emergency.....the only emergency is that Obama wants to take over the health care of 300 million americans before they wake up from the BHO flu..... The tanks should be in the [...]read » andylevinson
 
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  • I found this a highly readable piece with good, specific information. Thanks.read » Jerry Lanson
 
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The H1N1 flu emergency is no joke

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Earlier today, President Obama declared a nationwide "flu emergency" in response to the quickly spreading H1N1 virus. The accompanying chart, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows why. The number of people going to nationwide hospitals complaining of flu-like symptoms is skyrocketing. "Emergency" status will free up federal resources [...]
 
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My kids have H1N1; guess I'm next

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After writing about H1N1 for the past several weeks, I suddenly find that I have two kids who have been infected with the virus. I've been manifesting some mild symptoms, but haven't developed the full-blown fever or cough yet. Here's a first hand account I wrote up this morning about the [...]
 
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Travel Industry Cracks Down On Swine Flu

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If you've been in an airport lately, you have undoubtedly seen signs for protecting yourself against swine flu. While some might have just thought it was a blown-out of proportion media craze last May (which it partially was), its definitely being seen as a threat as winter flu season approaches. [...]
 
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  • Like Hilary, I also have never had a flu vaccine, nor have my kids (now 12 & 16) - and we've never had the flu either. (Now that I've said that I'm sure I've cursed us all with a terrible bout [...]read » Marjie Killeen
 
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  • I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I know the benefit of vaccines and I have nothing against the flu vaccine, either seasonal or swine. Yet I've never gotten a flu vaccine. I've also never gotten the [...]read » Hilary Shenfeld
 
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Some fear swine flu vaccine more than getting sick

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Poll results released Friday by the Harvard School of Public Health found that only 40 percent of adults plan to receive a swine flu vaccination and about half would vaccinate their children.  A story about those results runs in The Washington Post today, which also reported that research by both [...]
 
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Vaccine skepticism on the rise

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Spent the day talking with people who don't think anybody should vaccinate their children. After a couple of hours of it, I needed a nice stiff drink. Speaking with my pal Thomas Goetz, Deputy Editor of Wired, we discussed the way in which the internet-era has has reshaped our conception of [...]
 
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Russia's plan to drink away swine flu

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Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next months World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the countrys supporter association VOB said Monday."We urge our fans to drink a lot of Welsh whisky [...]
 
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Tourists Quarantined At A Hong Kong Hotel

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This is bizarre to me considering I stayed at this exact hotel when I visited Hong Kong last November!
The 200 or so guests and 100 staff have been ordered to stay inside Metropark Hotel in the Wanchai district for seven days, according to a Reuters report. The building [...]
 
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Don't sweat the swine flu during Cinco de Mayo

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¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo! Commemorating Mexico's victory over the French in 1862, today is a day of celebrating Mexican heritage and culture. Unfortunately this year, Mexico isn't really the safest spot on the planet to travel to right now. (Although, as MSNBC travel writer and expert Chris Elliott tweeted that [...]
 
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