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...guidelines are based on a study of how H1N1 is now making its way through the southern hemisphere - it is the dominant flu strain there, but most cases are mild and still treatable with antiviral medications...
...never seen the situation this bad. "Some people just never had the money, but now we're getting people who at one time may have had the money to do this and they just can't. We have people losing their homes. People are finally feeling the economic strain completely. When people don't have jobs, you have people who can't eat, so burying someone is not high up on their list of what they have...
...summer monitoring the way H1N1 has been behaving during the southern hemisphere's winter months. It has been spreading fast, attendance has dropped at Patagonian ski resorts, and flu fears have crippled the Buenos Aires theater business. Across the region, countries are reporting that H1N1 has become the dominant strain of the flu season. But the most positive development is that the virus has so far not mutated - a fact that makes it possible for scientists to create a vaccine for it. All these developments are being tracked at the White House, where flu meetings happen usually twice a week...
...Although so far the virus doesn't appear to have a significantly higher fatality rate than the usual seasonal flu, no one has immunity to the new strain - meaning we're likely to see very high infection rates. H1N1 is still spreading in the U.S., even during the summer - chiefly in summer camps and military installations, where young people are spending a lot of time in close contact. That alone shows just how transmissible this new virus is: we're dry kindling, and H1N1 is the match. But as with previous viruses in previous years, the real test for H1N1...
That's the problem with a lot of indie films: covering all the bases. For all the charm of its two leads, there's a cool calculation in Summer's chocolate-valentine heart: the urge to be the next Juno. When little films strain to be big hits, they turn quirks into formula and lose the romance of independence. They may as well be Wolverine...