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...good time to develop a taste for pork. The same is probably true if you're in the military or in a public school. As part of a government effort to boost America's hog farmers - who have identified themselves as the forgotten casualties of the H1N1 swine-flu epidemic and asked Washington for financial help - the Agriculture Department announced last week a $30 million purchase of surplus pork. That brings the federal total of pork purchases for fiscal 2009 to about $150 million, or close to $100 million more than last year's figure for the same period. During...
Rosenthal recommends that everyone receive the seasonal flu vaccine. UHS ordered 150 percent more seasonal flu vaccines this year and has already administered seasonal flu vaccinations to almost 1,000 people, including over 300 freshmen...
...H1N1 flu vaccine is not yet ready. Lipsitch estimates that a small number of doses will be ready in October, but most of these vaccinations will be reserved for high-risk groups...
Lipsitch said that the H1N1 vaccine might be widely available by December or January, but he estimates that the number of people with the flu will peak in October or November...
HUDS has also been enacting policies to prevent the flu from spreading in dining halls, according to an e-mailed statement released by HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. Martin could not be reached by phone for comment...