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...Services, Kathleen Sebelius, to help lead the fight against the disease. In the U.S., the caseload rose to 67 across five states - 45 of them in New York City, where health officials are investigating two new possible outbreaks at city schools - with more virus samples awaiting laboratory confirmation. New Zealand and Israel confirmed their first cases, while Canada, the U.K. and Spain saw small upticks in their swine-flu caseloads...
...swine flu outbreak remains limited in scope, health agencies will likely offer antivirals as a prophylaxis only to those who may have been exposed to the disease: asymptomatic passengers on the same flight as a sick Spanish man, for example, have been given Oseltamivir as a precaution. In New Zealand and Mexico, where there are confirmed cases of the disease, the drug has been made available over-the-counter, although pharmacists can exercise discretion about who they sell to. Should the outbreak turn into a global pandemic, there simply aren't enough drugs available for universal use; they will...
...pretend that my life changed after my chance encounter with the Vietnamese live-animal market. But it didn’t. In my mind, vegetarianism remained the preserve of health-obsessed teenage girls and animal rights the territory of self-righteous former hippies. Being neither, I returned to New Zealand and continued attending meat-filled barbeques at weekend rugby games...
...living things are evolutionarily related. “I take my students with me,” says Giribet, who affirms that firsthand experience with organisms is an essential part of studying OEB. “I took several graduate students, as well as an undergraduate student, to New Zealand a few years...
...world took a bait it had set for itself. Ahmadinejad’s assertions that Israel is a “cruel and repressive racist regime” were made at a United Nations conference on racism in Geneva that the United States, along with the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Italy, had already decided to boycott over concerns that Ahmadinejad would abuse it in precisely this manner. That political leaders and journalists are now focusing nonstop on the inflammatory remarks indicates that Western countries’ decision not to attend may have had precisely the opposite...