Health authorities and politicians alike, have been divided over the issue of whether or not to keep school children at home this coming autumn. It is a well known fact that children are flu super-spreaders and in this particular H1N1 pandemic, the 5 to 16 age bracket has been hit hard by the virus. (See KIMBERLY-CLARK [...]
We live in an era saturated with information. Stock markets across the world rely on information the same way cars rely on fuel; without it, life as we know it would eventually grind to a halt. Last April we were reminded just how information-sensitive we have become. H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu, suddenly came [...]
Hot Dan Brown Book: The Lost Symbol Last February, the Kaplinsky Report released an article asking whether a global pandemic (Read Is a global pandemic around the corner?) was imminent. Little did we know how close the world really was and that a novel virus called the swine flu was about to grab the world’s attention a few week [...]
I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to live through a global pandemic. Now I know. Come what may, people just want to get on with their lives. Governments and health authorities across the world are scared to the bone but they don’t want to cause any panic so they send out leaflets and make short infomercials teaching [...]
UPDATE: After deliberating with various regional medical experts, Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health organization, for the first time in 40 years, today declared the swine flu a pandemic. The last pandemic that was declared was the Hong Kong flu in 1968 which claimed the lives of about 1 million people. Medical experts and international health bodies [...]
If you thought Professor Neil Ferguson’s statement yesterday sounded like he was paraphrasing a passage right out of the Bible’s book of Revelation then you may be forgiven. Two billion people – or a third of the planet’s human population – will be infected by the dreaded swine flu virus, according to Ferguson. (Read: Swine flu panic grips the world) [...]
Last week, the world watched with growing alarm and anxiety as terrified tourists fled Mexico dragging their hastily packed luggage with blue facial masks wrapped over their faces. Swine flu was the new bug in town and it struck a chord of terror in almost every major city in the world. Anti-bacterial hand gels sold out like hot cakes, Egypt slaughtered pigs [...]
var infolink_pid = 18912; Things are moving rapidly. Within 48 hours of announcing a global level 4 alert, the WHO, in a dramatic and hastily convened press meeting, stunned the world last night when it notched the alert even higher to phase 5 out of 6 which indicates a pandemic is imminent, “and that the time to finalise. . . [...]
Latest Report: China moves to curb virus spreadLike a scene out of the nightmarish Adrian Hodges television series ’Survivors’ (an adaptation of a novel by Terry Nation), fear and panic gripped Mexican health authorities over the weekend as a wave of Swine flu fatalities swept across the South American country. So far 81 deaths have been reported but this number [...]
