Swine flu and auto accidents
Category: Swine flu
Is there something to be learned from comparing pandemic flu to car wrecks?
Posted by revere at 6:38 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Swine flu: pandemic pre-history
Category: Swine flu
The virus may have been circulating in pigs for years before jumping to humans somewhere around New Year.
Posted by revere at 6:41 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pneumococcal vaccine
Category: Vaccines
No vaccine yet for swine flu, but there is for one of its serious complications.
Posted by revere at 7:02 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu: are we there, yet?
Category: WHO
A pandemic by any other name . . .
Posted by revere at 6:56 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu: Drive-by Tylenol and other community crimes
Category: Swine flu
Sick leave policy as a public health measure.
Posted by revere at 6:26 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Infecting pigs with human-adapted swine flu virus
Category: Swine flu
It came from pigs, originally. Now it's adapted to humans. How easy is it to give it back to pigs?
Posted by revere at 6:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu comes home
Category: Swine flu
Swine flu in the family.
Posted by revere at 1:52 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu: New York City
Category: Swine flu
The complexity of simple questions.
Posted by revere at 6:34 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu: on not knowing
Category: Swine flu
The unpredictability of flu and difficulty of making any predictions with confidence is tiring to repeat and tiresome to listen to. Unfortunately that doesn't make it any less true. There are things we know -- because we see them happening...
Posted by revere at 6:45 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu: warning signs that someone is going sour
Category: Swine flu
When to get really worried about your child or your chronically ill relative during the swine flu pandemic.
Posted by revere at 6:43 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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