SwineFlu
Read the fine print before cancelling your flight due to H1N1
9:00AM 12/04/2009
Bringing a jug of hand sanitizer with you when flying is one way to hopefully avoid getting the H1N1 virus, but what to do if you get the swine flu before boarding your flight?
The Centers for Disease Control recommends changing your flight plans and staying home, along with other travel ideas...
H1N1 scam spreading like the disease itself; CDC issues warning
12:30PM 12/03/2009
Scammers are now capitalizing on fear of H1N1 (swine) flu and the limited availability of the vaccine to steal people's personal information.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning that an email is being circulated purporting to be about a CDC-sponsored state...
Just as swine flu activity is slowing, health officials are worried about another increase as people travel for Thanksgiving. And a few weeks after Thanksgiving, more people will be preparing to travel for Christmas, making now a good time to review government recommendations on travel during swine...
Forget candy canes, Santa's handing out hand sanitizer this year
6:30PM 11/18/2009
It's a promise from Santa Claus, so it has to be good: The global swine flu pandemic won't stop him from delivering presents this year.
"I swear that Christmas will not be canceled this year," Father Christmas told Finnish national broadcaster YLE, explaining that many children were worried he...
Use Google Flu-shot to find local H1N1 vaccination
1:30PM 11/13/2009
Microsoft and Google, two titans in technology, are separately trying to help combat the worst flu season in decades. First came an interactive Web site from Microsoft to help diagnose the swine flu.
Now comes a flu shot finder from Google to help find shots for the regular flu and swine flu. If...
Everyone from President Obama to your office mate wants you to stay home sick at the first flu-like symptom. And now, if some lawmakers have their way, workers nursing H1N1 symptoms will be paid to stay home - whether they've got sick days accrued or not.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been...
With swine flu in full swing, Wal-Mart's punitive sick leave policy is discouraging employees from calling in sick, lest they earn enough demerits to be fired, according to a report by the National Labor Committee.
Wal-Mart employees who miss one or more days due to sickness or other reasons,...
What's in a name? The pork industry is discovering the wrong name can become a multi-billion dollar calamity.
Since April, when many of us first heard the name "Swine Flu" used for the H1N1 virus, the pork market has been in a tailspin.
According to the National Pork Producers Council, this is...
My family has been trying for weeks to get the H1N1 vaccine but the few clinics that have been held around the Milwaukee area have been mobbed.
Now we learn that all clinics for the next few weeks are cancelled because there is no vaccine to be had. Even high risk groups such as pregnant women...
Emergency rooms and doctor's offices are flooded with phone calls and patients related to the swine flu. For instance, four hospitals in Onondaga County, N.Y. saw an 11% spike in patients in September 2009 over the same month last year.And while it's causing a fury in the health care industry, some...
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