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...influenza—a category which includes the swine flu—though it will take one or two more days before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can identify the specific strain of virus. Pawlenty only identified the patient as a woman affiliated with schools in Cold Spring, in central Minnesota. In response to her probable swine flu, Rocori Middle School and St. Boniface School in Cold Spring were voluntarily closed today. Health Commissioner Sanne Magnan, also present at the press conference yesterday, said the woman is recovering and did not have to be hospitalized. According to Magnan...
...Such choices get to the real truth behind the cold hard numbers of health-care reform. Every one of them is a political calculation, one that pits one constituency against another. Can lawmakers really balance the books on health-care reform? "You can do it," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, a leading voice in the health-care-reform effort. "It's just a matter of how much pain you want to endure...
...been linked to swine flu - the assistant vice president for health services, Dr. Samuel Seward, sent an e-mail to students urging them to cover their mouths when they sneeze and to clean things they touch often, like computer keyboards. "Avoid holding, hugging or kissing anyone who has a cold or the flu," he advised. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
Frank became interested in Central and Eastern Europe as a high school student in the last days of the Cold War, when she found herself drawn to the world that Ronald Reagan once referred to as the “Evil Empire.” She majored in German studies and Russian and East European studies at Williams College, and after working as a consultant for health care in Poland, decided to enter graduate school at Harvard to explore the history behind the region...
When the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold - so goes the old saying that is ironically being turned on its head as all eyes look south, afraid that the U.S. may be infected by what appears to be Mexican swine flu. But while public health and government officials on both sides of the border battle the outbreak, a virus of another sort is spreading across the Internet as anti-immigration groups use the imminent flu pandemic as an argument for closing the U.S.-Mexico border...