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With over 100,000 voters at the polls—the highest number in a mayoral election since 1993—Menino garnered 57 percent of the vote, or 63,123 ballots, to Flaherty’s 42 percent, or 46,768 ballots...
...study, published in the CDC journal “Emerging Infectious Diseases,” estimated that the total number of swine flu cases in the United States between April and July 2009 ran up to 140 times higher than the number of cases confirmed by laboratory tests...
Researchers on the study concluded that the actual number of cases hovered anywhere from 1.8 million to 5.7 million cases: far more than the 43,677 lab-confirmed cases that were identified nationwide through July, according to the paper. “Not every case, by a long shot, got reported...Once the number of cases grew, issues of capacity made testing and reporting even more significant,” wrote Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the study, in an e-mail...
Though it is difficult to find accurate epidemiological numbers, more exact estimation will help to inform vaccine and treatment recommendation to improve predictions of future spread, Lipsitch wrote. The CDC reported on October 23 that the fast-moving “swine flu” pandemic had spread to 177 countries worldwide and that flu activity remains widespread in 46 U.S. states. The latest weekly report from the World Health Organization only accounts for 440,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza through the end of October throughout the globe, admitting that the case count is likely...
...number of undergraduate political leaders agreed that student interest was dampened this year due to the absence of major elections in all but a handful of states...