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Even without any significant mutations, H1N1 has so far behaved in confounding ways. The virus spread widely in Britain during the summer, but not in other European countries. No one knows why. Mexico reported a sharp increase in cases in late July after health officials there suspected that the virus had begun petering out with the onset of the hot summer months. And then there is emerging evidence that some patients present without fever, making diagnosing H1N1 harder...
...China, where the first case of H1N1 was traced to a Mexican visitor in late April, only 2,264 cases of the flu have been reported. Still, officials in Beijing, criticized for their handling of previous viruses such as the outbreak of SARS in 2002 and 2003, are taking no chances. Chinese crews wearing masks and medical suits now walk through all international airplanes upon arrival, testing passengers' temperatures with pistol-grip thermometers. When one student from St. Mary's School in Medford, Ore., tested positive on a trip to China in mid-July, 65 fellow pupils and seven chaperones...
Some medical professionals question the value of such stringent measures. This late in a pandemic, they say, the spread of H1N1 is inevitable. "They are not effective at all in my opinion," says Dr. Lo Wing-lok, a Hong Kong?based infectious-disease expert. "By picking up these few cases, there isn't any real impact in control of the flu." Hugh Pennington, a microbiologist at the University of Aberdeen, puts it more bluntly: "We are already in a pandemic. There's no containment option now." (See the 5 things you need to know about swine...
...There’s something kind of liberating about cheering for a bottom-dweller team. The late-’80s Braves were at the bottom of their then NL-West division, before making their turnaround in ’91. Perhaps the “aughts” are the ’80s for the Padres and they’ll be turning the ship around in the teens. They certainly have the young talent to do that. Guys like Adrian Gonzalez, Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Chase Headley provide some pop in the lineup, assuming the Padres can hold...
...live into 2009. But she did just that and bettered her goal of seeing Julie turn 12 last May by hanging on for Margot's third birthday. She died the next day, by which time all four children were already settling into their new home. (See pictures of the late professor Randy Pausch...