Word: swine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just after the 1918 flu pandemic (that is, people who were still in utero when the disease was at its peak) had a higher risk of a heart attack in their adulthood than those born before or long after the pandemic. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...Alameda County, California, between 1959 and 1966 and monitored their sons and daughters for more then three decades. Children born to women who had been infected with flu were three to seven times more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, the study concluded. (See the top 5 swine...
After the death of Full Moon on the Quad, an illustrious 19th-century tradition where seniors would make out with freshmen under the first full moon of the year, due to swine flu concerns, another Stanford party may soon die from budget cuts. Stanford is suddenly getting drearier...
...looks like Harvard isn't the only powerful institution currently freaking out (read: overreacting) about the spread of swine flu with its Purell propaganda and single-bedroom quarantines. Yesterday, The Massachusetts House approved a bill (with a vote of 113-36) that would give health officials the authority to isolate infected individuals and mandate vaccine administration, as well as perform a few other questionable practices. (We're guessing that these don't involve delivering get-well meals to those quarantined...
America seems braced for an all-out war on the much-hyped swine flu, having recently ordered 250 million vaccines in preparation for the flu season. But what about developing nations that can’t even afford to treat diseases with high mortality rates, let alone influenzas that much of the public doubts pose serious threats? The UN expressed concerns in a recent statement, urging the world’s wealthier nations to donate more vaccines to help stop the impending epidemic. The United States, Brazil, and France have all agreed to donate 10 percent of their vaccine stockpiles...