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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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pandemic stories: 67 news summaries

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(Newser) - Schools and museums are closed, sold-out soccer games are being played in empty stadiums, and health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. At nightclubs, teenagers are dancing with surgical masks on. Mexico City is grappling with what authorities fear is ground zero for a global epidemic of... More »

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(Newser) - Experts are stumped and very nervous about the current swine flu outbreak, the Wall Street Journal reports. The previously unknown flu strain, which has killed up to 68 in Mexico and infected eight Americans, is doing two new things: passing from person to person, and mixing viruses in a... More »

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Mexico • influenza • pandemic • swine flu

 Not Scared of TB? 
 You Should Be 

Resistant strain could ravage the world, and we're not ready

Dec 7, 08 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - "Global complacency" could give rise to a terrifying, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times—and not in some remote outpost on the globe. There have been fewer than 100 cases of this XDR-TB in the past 15 years in the US, but with... More »

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public health • Doctors Without Borders • Armenia • tuberculosis • pandemic • Nicholas Kristof • XDR-TB

12 Ways Climate Change Could Kill You

Warmer temperatures may cause spread of dangerous pathogens

Oct 14, 08 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - A dozen deadly diseases may become even deadlier as a result of climate change, Scientific American reports. Cholera, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and other ailments are spreading to new areas as temperatures rise, a Wildlife Conservation Society study says. The society suggests monitoring wildlife to prevent a human outbreak of “... More »

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climate change • disease • public health • pathogens • disease control • pandemic

1918 Flu Survivors Still Have Killer Antibodies

Findings help fight against avian flu

Aug 18, 08 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The flu pandemic that killed up to 100 million people in 1918 left survivors with a strong set of antibodies—strong enough to still be viable today, Reuters reports. Mice given survivor antibodies managed to fight off the deadly flu when they were infected with the virus extracted from exhumed... More »

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public health • antibodies • avian flu • flu • health research • pandemic • 1918 pandemic

 Brits Warn of
 Devastating Pandemic 

World ill-prepared for massive outbreak

Jul 21, 08 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world is in danger of losing up to 50 million people to an "inevitable" flu pandemic, and global response agencies aren't ready for such a test, the British government warns. A report rates early-warning systems as "poorly coordinated" and calls for an overhaul of the World Health... More »

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epidemic • virus • World Health Organization • avian flu • flu • pandemic

 Pandemic Risk Real, Mounting 

Experts fear spread of disease, entrenched in avian population, to humans

May 6, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The danger of a worldwide bird flu epidemic is growing as the virus becomes established in the avian population, Reuters reports. World Health Organization experts today urged all nations to prepare in case the H5N1 virus mutates into a form easily transferable between humans. In birds, the strain has spread... More »

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birds • epidemic • World Health Organization • avian flu • H5N1 • influenza • pandemic

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