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...vaccine strain. But the agency recommended that drug companies continue to make a seasonal flu vaccine instead of switching immediately to the production of an A/H1N1 flu vaccine. That's important because drugmakers are currently producing a flu vaccine for the southern hemisphere, where the flu season has just begun. (The flu season in the north has just ended.) If vaccine manufacturing capacity were switched from the standard flu to swine flu, that could create a shortfall in normal flu vaccine, potentially leading to needless deaths should the A/H1N1 swine flu end up petering out on its own. Still, preparations...
...normally shrug off the flu. (Fueling such concerns is the fact that similar age groups died in unusually high numbers during the 1918 pandemic.) Yet the cases in the U.S. have all been mild and likely wouldn't have even garnered much attention if doctors hadn't begun actively looking for swine flu in recent days. "What we're seeing in this country so far is not anywhere near the severity of what we're hearing about in Mexico," said the CDC's Besser. "We need to understand that...
...consultation with a doctor, and that bleach should never be applied directly to the skin. For patients with severe skin damage such as cracking, baths of any kind - including dilute bleach - may initially be too painful, and should be introduced later in treatment only after the skin has begun to improve...
Funds and Talent Needed For Russia's arms-export boom to continue, its defense industries need a huge infusion of fresh funds and talent. Russia's defense department buys only 15% of the weaponry the country's factories produce, while old customers such as India and China have begun producing their own weapons in the past decade or so. Unless Russia modernizes its factories, Moscow could lose more clients, says the Stratfor analysis. If that happens, the report states, "the Russian defense industry will be hard-pressed to keep from becoming irrelevant...
...part of a team that is sort of redefining itself and becoming better every year,” Gillepsie said. “There is a lot of pleasure and satisfaction from getting that experience.”But even though the track and field team has begun to see success, it’s the individual performance that matters. “He has probably the strongest work ethic [on] the team,” Kenney said. “I’m his roommate, and he always makes sacrifices for running—like on the weekends...