Revere reminds us of how isolation and quarantine are not the same:
Both Avian Flu Diary and H5N1 look at how Mexico's 160+ "swine flu deaths" got knocked back to just 7.
Andre Picard (why do so many ace flu reporters come out of Canada?) argues we should Keep the fear-o-meter on low for now
ZDNet Healthcare chides the media for not doing so.
CIDRAP launches a breaking news tracker.
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The Vancouver Sun finds a sunny angle on the 1918 flu.
Nature provides a timeline.
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Sorry for the radio silence--I've been working on grants and manuscripts like a fiend, and so have tried to limit as many distractions as possible (which, unfortunately, includes blogging). However, the swine flu news is right up my alley, so I do just want to say a few words about it, and point…
You have to move fast these days to keep up with the flu. Or outrun it.
A quick roundup from the last 24:
From the invaluable H5N1:
Mexico: 4,000 H1N1 cases in 7 days
Spain: 31,322 cases and 6 deaths in one week
US: 15 states could run out of hospital beds
Scotland sees it Worst week yet…
This swine flu business is moving fast now, with confirmed or reported cases popping up everywhere and the first reported death outside Mexico -- a 23-month-old child in Texas -- reported this morning. As Effect Measure notes
Some of the fear [generated in the U.S. by this deat] will be lessened by…
I have a handful of comments, mostly about how what you are seeing on the news is unimportant, and one comment about why you actually should worry. Within reason.
The new Swine Flu has now been verified in nineteen US states, with 141 cases. Technically there is 1 death, but since the young…