Pig Flu Pandemic?
Mexico City is in the grip of an influenza epidemic that the World Health Organization says has pandemic potential. [See pandemic updates below.] Like the bird flu virus H5N1, the deadly strain of the...
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Original entry here. I’ll add updates below as relevant news becomes available. 27 APR UPDATES: U.S. declares public health emergency; swine flu confirmed in Spain; global stock markets plumet due to...
View ArticleDeadly Intersections
The Huffington Post reports that Glen Beck and other conservative media personalities are blaming undocumented immigrants from Mexico for the spread of swine flu into the United States. Given that the...
View ArticleAnd We Are Not Yet Saved
Wangari Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) Derrick Bell (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) Marti Kheel (August 25, 1948 – November 19, 2011) Legal scholar Derrick Bell called his 1987 book on...
View ArticleBird Flu Re-Ups
The death of a man who evidently caught bird flu by jogging in a wetland (!) prompts me to remind us all that, unless we radically change our orientation to animals, it’s merely a matter of when (not...
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