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...said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $1 billion to the development, testing and production of an H1N1 vaccine, and five different companies, including GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis, currently have the seed virus from CDC that will form the core of the immunization. But a vaccine won't be ready until September at the earliest, and even then, it won't be clear whether that shot will be a good match against the H1N1 influenza virus that will be circulating...
...freshman Devan Kennifer said. “It’s good that they were close but I felt like we could have come out on top in at least two out of three of those.” Squeaking into the Harvard-hosted Eastern Championships as the eighth seed, the Crimson dropped its first two games against Hartwick and Indiana before winning its final contest of the season against Bucknell to determine seventh place. “It was also exciting for us to finish out on a win, especially in our home pool,” MacLaughlin said...
...score. Harvard then hit the road to face No. 7 Cornell and No. 6 Stanford. The Crimson beat them both, 8-1, proving worthy itself of its top-four ranking. Harvard’s first real tests came in the first week of February against three opponents that were seeded higher than the Crimson. “We knew that we were strong going into that week, but we knew [Trinity, Penn, and Princeton] were going to be tough,” junior captain Johanna Snyder said. “It was [a] hybrid of confidence and viewing them...
...activists like Meredith Niles, a campaigner at the U.S.-based Center for Food Safety, point to links between AGRA and agribusiness giants such as Monsanto. "They're clearly tied to the companies that are going to benefit from selling more fertilizer and more seed," says Niles...
H1N1 makes clear how vulnerable our interconnected globe is to emerging diseases. As a result of jet travel and international trade, a new pathogen managed to seed itself in more than 20 countries in less than two weeks. But while globalization has its liabilities, it is also a strength because it gives us the tools to create a truly international disease-surveillance system. And the threat of a pandemic should remind us that we must fill the gaps in the creaky U.S. health-care system; during an infectious-disease outbreak, everyone will be at risk. "We live in one world...