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Swine influenza

Powerful computer models help researchers react to pandemic spread

Health & Medicine

Researchers at Virginia Tech University have created a high-tech computer model that will allow them to model that effects of a pandemic outbreak on the American population. It’s a new tool that can help scientists and doctors plan a counter-attack on the disease.

H1N1: what you need to know

Health & Medicine

It’s official: (swine) flu shots for everyone

Health & Medicine

H1N1 Concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa

Health & Medicine

The swine flu explained

Health & Medicine

Animal Infections That Spill Over Into Humans

Health & Medicine

Swine flu, along with AIDS and SARS make up a group of diseases called zoonotic diseases. And such diseases may be on the rise, according to a new book called “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.”

Farming the Flu

A look at the intensive, industrial-scale livestock operations ?fertile incubation space for pathogen mutations such as the H1N1 2009 flu.

Pandemic Pointers

The swine flu scare of 1976 was a “flu fire drill” for policy makers, says a health expert.

The World

Flu Shots

Because the early symptoms of anthrax can mirror those of the flu, some officials say everyone should get a flu shot. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that’s bad advice. Living on Earth’s Diane Toomey reports.

The World

Swine flu: a look back on the crisis that wasn’t

Health & Medicine

What have we learned from the swine flu crisis that wasn’t? A researcher and public health expert share their differing opinions on what we did right and what went wrong.