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...same time, health officials have been quick to stave off unnecessary panic. "This is obviously a cause for concern," said President Barack Obama in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences on Monday morning. "But it's not a cause for alarm." That message was echoed by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, the lead federal official on swine flu, as well as WHO officials and just about every other official connected to the global flu response who spoke to the public on Monday...
...Though the World Health Organization (WHO) is referring to the situation as a "public-health emergency of international concern," the apparent emergence in several countries of an entirely new strain of H1N1 flu virus has led some scientists to believe that it is only a matter of time before the WHO declares pandemic status, a move that could prompt travel bans to infected countries. "We are clearly seeing wide spread," says Michael Osterholm, a pandemic risk expert who runs the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. "There is no question." (See a photogallery on swine...
...world to pandemic phase 4 would be the signal for serious containment actions to be taken on the national and international level. Given that these actions would have major implications for the global economy, not to mention the effects of the public fear that would ensue, there is concern that the WHO may be considering politics along with science. "What the WHO did makes no sense," says Osterholm. "In a potential pandemic, you need to have the WHO be beyond question, and (April 25) was not a good day for them...
...There was a major concern about money funding underage drinking in private settings, where it couldn’t be regulated or monitored,” said Student Affairs Committee chair Tamar Holoshitz ’10, referring to the UC’s party grant program that was discontinued last spring...
...social life at Harvard,” Holoshitz said. With the new grant, the UC will retroactively fund food and alcohol at a 70 to 30 percent ratio. “This is not the party fund, but we’re looking for creative ways to address the concern about social life,” Holoshitz said...