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 [...]
