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...Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which issued new guidelines Friday, Aug. 7, for grades kindergarten through 12, preventing H1N1 infections should begin with less drastic measures: frequent hand-washing and coughing into sleeves (not hands), and keeping all children with flu symptoms at home. The CDC recommended that schools remain open, even during outbreaks of flu - a shift from its recommendation at the beginning of the pandemic last spring, when schools were advised to shut down immediately when students became ill. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...Translation: Everyone remain calm. Officials are working overtime to find health-care workers and public spaces to administer the vaccines this fall - and it will be a few weeks before more is known about where and when the shots will be given. The sheer size of the vaccination task causes some of the greatest concern for public-health experts, and it has begun to hit home for people like Kevin Sherin, the public-health director in Orlando, Fla. He oversees a school system with about 175,000 students, a county with more than 1 million residents and a tourist industry...
...various problems it has encountered, and advances by its competitors, are eating that away," says Alex Barnett, equities analyst in Paris for investment bank and brokerage Jefferies. "No one ever thought Areva was going to be the only player in this, but it needs to respond to remain the dominant force...
Clashes ensued between the advancing Muslim crowd and the much smaller group of Christians trying to push them back. The police were caught in the middle for some time before they, for reasons that remain unclear, melted away. Some members of the Christian community allege that the police stood by as a group of armed men mounted an attack. Paramilitary forces were dispatched on Sunday, but their arrival came too late, residents...
...commission to investigate what happened and Parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence. Islamabad's gestures, however, have done little to assure Pakistan's estimated 3 million Christians, who are 60% Catholic and 40% Protestant (the second largest religious minority, after Hindus). Many now question whether they can remain safe in a country that has long neglected them and continues to have blasphemy laws that have been repeatedly exploited by violent extremists...