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1 hr ago | MinnPost.com

MN breast-cancer advocates take opposing views of Klobuchar bill

I spoke on Monday with Christine Norton, co-founder of the Minnesota Breast Cancer Coalition, about the controversial breast-cancer bill that Sen.

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Related Topix: Health, Breast Cancer, Medicine, US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics, Amy Klobuchar, Women's Health, US House of Representatives, Debbie Wasserman Schultz

5 hrs ago | Augusta Chronicle Online

Georgia isn't ready to face health threat

Georgia appears to be unprepared on several fronts to prevent and contain public health threats, according to an examination by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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Related Topix: Georgia, Atlanta, GA, Food Science, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Decatur, GA

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Fox Charlotte

Dog Flu Could Be Affecting Your Pup

After this year's scare of swine flu, or H1N1 flu, comes word a new flu is going around, though this one will affect your dog, not you.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza

Christian Science Monitor

Swine flu concerns rise in Southern Hemisphere

As the number of diagnosed cases of swine flu recedes in the Northern Hemisphere, several countries in the Southern Hemisphere are now struggling with how to respond to the H1N1 virus.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Travel, Argentina Travel, Mexico Travel, Argentina, World News

Holtville Tribune

Swine Flu: United States Swine Influenza, H1N1 Case Report: 170 Deaths

Swine Influenza, Swine Flu National Update - Thursday, July 2 - 2:30PM EST - CDC continues to take aggressive action to respond to an expanding outbreak caused by novel H1N1 flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Illinois

WBOC-TV Salisbury

12 Hospitalized in Likely E. Coli Outbreak

At least 12 people, two of them suffering kidney failure, have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E. coli outbreak in beef suspected of having sickened people in nine states, federal health officials said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: New York, Rosa DeLauro, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Food Science

Tuscola County Advertiser

U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp

Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Prison, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Saipan Tribune

CDC assures Kilili that H1N1 test kits on the way

CNMI Rep. Gregorio "Kilili" C. Sablan said yesterday that he has received word from the Centers for Disease Control that lab kits are being shipped to the Naval Hospital in Guam for testing suspected cases of H1N1, swine flu, in the Northern Marianas.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

The Augusta Chronicle

Athens-area swine flu case reported

Friday, July 3, 2009 7:50 a.m. The Northeast Health District has confirmed a case of H1N1 influenza, commonly called swine flu, in the Athens area.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Athens, GA, Medicine, Influenza, Georgia, Oconee County, GA

Boston.com

Mexico wins praise for swine flu response

As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Wick-Qua-Boag Weekender

Communities bug out over cuts to mosquito control

That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried - he's already running out of money.

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Related Topix: Beaumont, TX

The Star Online

Scare stories vs the truth

Getting a grip on what the A pandemic is all about is key to devising a proper approach to handle the disease.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Opinion

MedlinePlus

New Flu May Not Spread Like Regular Flu

The new H1N1 influenza strain may be just a little less catching than seasonal flu, but seems a little better able to cause stomach upsets, researchers reported on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Fri Jul 03, 2009

McClatchy DC

Alaska health director says she was forced out by Palin

One of the state's top public health officials says she was forced out of office because Gov.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza

ABS-CBN News

WHO sees swine flu tailing off in northern summer

The World Health Organization still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

TheKSBWChannel

World Health Officials Tackle Flu Challenges

Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Prison, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, World News, Mexico, Medicine, Influenza

WBOC-TV Salisbury

Va. Records Second H1N1 Flu-Related Death

Virginia health officials have confirmed the second death in the state related to the swine flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Science Daily

Why H1N1 Flu Spreads Inefficiently

The H1N1 strain, which circled the globe this spring, has a form of surface protein that binds inefficiently to receptors found in the human respiratory tract, the team reports in the July 2 online edition of Science.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Thu Jul 02, 2009

C-Health

Swine flu transmission studies suggest new virus is here to stay:experts

Schematic presentation and a photograph of transmission cages. The ferrets are housed in clear Perspex transmission cages, in which each inoculated animal was housed individually with a naive ferret.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza

St. Augustine Record

Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people

With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, World News, China, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

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