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...severe the current H1N1 pandemic seems depends on what you use as a measuring stick. Compared with previous pandemics, like the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 20 million people and infected up to 40% of the world's population, or even the far less deadly 1957 and 1968 bouts with a strain of H1N1 influenza similar to the 2009 strain, things don't seem as bad this time around. Fewer people are getting severely ill when infected, and fewer have died or required hospitalization from the flu than in previous pandemics. (See what you need to know about the H1N1...
...clear, however, that past pandemics are an appropriate gauge for evaluating the current flu or that the new projections are based on complete data. The eventual death toll of 2009 H1N1 may be less grim than the outcomes of previous pandemics, but it should be noted that 90 years ago, and even 40 years ago, health officials lacked the antiviral therapies and nationwide vaccination capabilities that are available today. That may have contributed to pandemics having a more devastating effect on the health of past populations...
...under one URL, and does not subject them to the vicissitudes of the search engine - though you have to visit the Living Story Page to find them. "In general, our goal is to make it easy for people to discover the news they're looking for, different perspectives on current events and sources of information they wouldn't otherwise have found," says Google spokesperson Chris Gaither...
...breakfast and lunch, residents have access to the full-scale industrial kitchen to cook their own meals, a perk that drew some of the current residents...
Mather House Masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 announced Monday night that they will be stepping down at the end of the academic year after serving for 18 years, the longest tenure of any current Masters...