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...coffee if the drinks are cheaper and made faster. Given the company's pricing history and the likelihood that the McCafé system will be quicker than Starbucks baristas, consumer sentiment is trending its way. Thompson says that, to date, the McCafé drinks have produced profits in the test markets...
...World Health Organization (WHO) uses a similar on-the-ground surveillance strategy - a text-mining system of media reports, called the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), designed to suss out mentions of unusual illness. And the CDC has a network of physicians who routinely sample and test patients to see what bugs they have and might be circulating in the community. But these systems have many moving parts, relying on state, local and even community health-care workers to both recognize and report anything out of the ordinary. Once a community doctor sees what he thinks might...
...additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials at the CDC. The CDC was actually already connected to the Veratect news feed (in January, Veratect provided the CDC complimentary access to its system to test its utility) when the company again contacted the health agency's operations staff on April 20, as H1N1 cases began to appear, to reinforce concern over what looked like an emerging epidemic...
...longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency. We are very fortunate in our response to H1N1 that state and local health agencies have been exercising a plan for a response to a pandemic for many years. We have labs that are able to receive our test kits and are using those to test for the virus locally. You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic...
...Milky Way galaxy was made out of building blocks of dwarf galaxies, which came together.” General relativity calculations give evidence for the existence of the black holes—if visual evidence is found within astronomical observations, the black holes would “test the predictions of general relativity,” O’Leary said. The cluster is expected to be highly compact and the “black hole will give the stars higher speeds.” O’Leary has started the search for these compact clusters using the Sloan...