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...Spanish-flu pandemic ended only when the virus had infected so many people that it burned itself out. Today, doctors have better tools--antivirals and respirators--that would cut the potential death toll. But influenza is unpredictable. "There's no standard picture for how this develops," says Keiji Fukuda, a top World Health Organization official. We can prepare, but in the end, we're at the mercy of a virus...
...should call this Mexico flu.' YAKOV LITZMAN, Israel's Deputy Health Minister, on renaming the swine flu because of kosher dietary laws...
...Harvard School of Dental Medicine will be closed today after a sample collected from a student there was deemed a "probable" case of swine flu late yesterday...
...state health officials are still waiting for final results from Atlanta, where the sample, originally taken on Monday, was sent to be tested at the Centers for Disease Control—currently the only facility in the country that has the capacity to issue final confirmation on swine flu...
...know is they have a positive culture for H1 and they sent it down to the Centers for Disease Control," Rosenthal said. "H," or hemagglutinin, is the protein marker that distinguishes the subtype of flu of which swine flu is a variety. Further testing is necessary for final confirmation of a swine flu diagnosis...