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WHO officials such as Fontaine hope that zinc becomes so standard that it will be "like having Band-Aids at home." A second medical breakthrough should also help. At least one-third of all diarrhea deaths among young children are caused by the rotavirus, which infects the cells lining the...
The Mobilization If H1N1 is too widespread to contain, we're less sure how it will move through the coming northern winter. In the southern hemisphere, where it is winter now, the virus has been spreading fast, but with a low mortality rate. On Aug. 5, Argentina reported that deaths...
While the World Health Organization concocts the recipe for the flu vaccine, private companies manufacture and sell the doses, mostly to governments. At current capacity, they can produce around 900 million doses of H1N1 vaccine a year: a total that is "woefully inadequate for a world of 6.8 billion people...
Places such as Japan, Hong Kong and Western Europe, which are planning mass vaccination programs, face different challenges. These programs are difficult to implement. Last year, for instance, only 40% of the U.S. population took the time to get a regular flu shot, despite its widespread availability. Most forms of...
In America, the sheer size of the pandemic response 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 that cycles...