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Swine flu in New England—Updates: Don’t Cancel Plans to Visit
Update for May 2, 2009 While there has been an uptick in new cases worldwide to 615, there are no new confirmed cases in New England. Nonetheless, suspected cases have closed the Harvard Dental School and Amherst College. Misconceptions continue to spread at a rate far greater than the flu itself. In New York and [...]
3May2009 | James T Hyde | 2 comments | ContinuedSwine Flu in New England: Don’t Cancel Plans to Visit
To put Swine Flu in perspective vis-à-vis a normal seasonal flu, Dr. Michael Baden, a noted pathologist, says that during the normal flu season, the regular flu kills up to 100 people a day! So far, only one fatality has occurred from H1N1 in the United States.
30Apr2009 | James T Hyde | 0 comments | Continued