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...targets. The CDC wants 90% coverage among at-risk Americans: adults over 50, people with certain existing conditions like heart or lung disease, dormitory or chronic-care-facility residents and workers, people who work or live with small children, and - especially - healthcare workers, who can spread the disease easily. Influenza kills an estimated 36,000 people in the U.S. every year - more than prostate cancer or AIDS - but the current rate for the target group is less than 70%. That's only slightly higher than the rate of vaccination for pneumococcal disease, which sends 175,000 Americans to the hospital...
...students are pretty distracted right now in this final week of classes. Harvard is buzzing with holiday parties, extracurricular transfers of power, and epidemic influenza. With all this on-campus excitement, and the promise of home looming, who can think about school right now? There is so much on our minds right now that it would be all too easy to completely forget about that last midterm. Hopefully our TFs also share in our seasonal charity and goodwill, but I wouldn’t count on it. This is why Harvard’s idiosyncratic calendar is a good thing...
...virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm...
...been lurking in Western Europe for sometime now. In a way, it's encouraging, as the more time that passes without it mutating suggests it might not be able to mutate into a form that could cause a pandemic. But influenza is so unpredictable it's impossible to say for sure what will happen with this strain," he said...
...trials and races. "Our website is like a mini-TV station," says Dynamic Syndications managing director Dean Watt. "If you could put a smell through the Internet we would do it." Right now, though, few would want to be that close to an Australian horse. An epidemic of equine influenza has hit some 5,000 stables and breeding farms in New South Wales and Queensland, resulting in numerous race cancellations and costing the industry an estimated $1 billion...