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...might be a 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...
...Secretary requesting assistance. The council asked the USDA to lift the $300 spending cap on pork products for government food programs, and to spend at least an additional $150 million on pork products during fiscal year 2009; the industry also asked for $100 million to help survey herds for H1N1. In a similar letter from state governors, lawmakers requested that the government urge overseas markets to start buying U.S. pork again, and Vilsack said he would lean on the international trading partners who haven't yet lifted their U.S. pork bans. "Among the ones who have been open to reason...
...symptoms are called influenza-like illnesses because Massachusetts is no longer testing for the H1N1 flu versus the seasonal flu, but the recent cases are almost certainly H1N1...
...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...