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Underlying Conditions: Swine Flu, Obesity, Pregnancy, Cytokine Storms, Ebola, Factory Farms and “The Frog and Peach”

The swine flu genie, now officially out of the bottle as a WHO-certified global pandemic, has left a trail of mostly non-lethal misery (so far) stretching across 145-and-counting countries. In the U.K., experts predict there could be as many as a 100,000 cases per day by August – which would also dash hopes for an [...]

A Virus by Any Other Name: Lessons from an Outbreak (so far…)

A week has passed since the World Health Organization convened its first emergency meeting to deal with menacing new flu virus thought to have sickened thousands and killed dozens of young Mexican men. New cases continue to tally up around the world (15 countries so far) and the virus isĀ  spreading person-to-person. The outbreak has [...]