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...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 vaccine...
Unfortunately for the Huskies, its initial score lit a flame under the Harvard offense, which responded to the early deficit by relentlessly assaulting the net. The Crimson took the game’s next 14 shots on goal, pressuring goalie Alexandra Garcia and the UConn defense into committing several ill-advised penalties, the first of which proved costly...
Generations of Sogola residents have watched their children fall ill each rainy season, laid low by diarrhea, a disease that kills an astonishing 1.6 million children under 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization...
...intense frustration of aid groups and government officials, only about 35% of families in diarrhea-stricken countries use ORT--less than half the WHO's target. Until zinc arrived in Sogola, only about 1 in 10 village residents used the sachets when they or their children became ill. That number has soared since Traoré added zinc tablets to the prescription. "Mothers don't see ORT as real treatment," says Eric Swedberg, senior director of child health and nutrition at Save the Children U.S., in Westport, Conn. "But when you add the zinc, you really see the effects. This is quite...
Terry Reeves, METROPOLIS, ILL...