Posted on December 8, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
At TrackerNews, our approach is a little different from most aggregators. While they focus either on the latest or most popular stories, we focus on context. Stories cycle through the site in groups to deliver a more faceted experience: breaking news is paired with archived stories, research papers, blog posts, websites, book reviews, e-books – [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
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 economic [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Last week, the World Health Organization ratcheted up its pandemic rating for swine flu (aka H1N1) all the way to an unprecedented “pandemic imminent” level 5, with a top-of-the-chart 6 considered inevitable. Was it time to wear masks? Stock up on Tamiflu and canned goods? Update wills? Pull out old high school lit-class copies of [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
“Disease is an outcome.” Wildlife biologist Milt Friend said that to me years ago when I was working on a story about the emergence of a frightening new virus just beginning to sweep across the country: West Nile. Friend had helped found the National Wildlife Health Center (a sort of CDC for critters), which was [...]
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