"Cases of new swine flu increase" Associated Press, August 10, 2012
ATLANTA — Don’t pet the pigs. That’s the message state and county fair visitors got Thursday from health officials who reported a fivefold increase of cases of a new strain of swine flu that spreads from pigs to people. Most of the cases are linked to the fairs, where visitors are in close contact with infected pigs.
This flu has mild symptoms and it’s not really spreading from person to person.
‘‘This is not a pandemic situation,’’ said Dr. Joseph Bresee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Most of the infected patients are children — probably because many were working closely with raising, displaying, and visiting pigs at the agricultural fairs, Bresee said....
The diagnosis of cases has become quicker in the last week. The CDC no longer must confirm a case with its own lab. States are using test kits to confirm cases on their own, speeding the process along.
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"A tuberculosis vaccine in use for 90 years may help reverse Type 1 diabetes and eliminate the lifelong need for insulin injections, say Harvard University researchers raising money to conduct large, human studies."
Related: Drug-resistant tuberculosis cases spreading
Also see: Government gene sleuths stop superbug that killed 6
Flu season has early start and could be severe, CDC says
New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East
Released to kill a bunch of recalcitrant Muslims and Arabs no doubt.
Boston hospital tracking ‘SARS-like’ virus
"The germ is a coronavirus, from a family of viruses that cause the common cold, as well as SARS — the severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed some 800 people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 epidemic."
Time for another shot:
Some nurses protest hospital flu shot rule
Now why would they do that, huh?
