Inqlings | A.C. pub sues over 'dive' review (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The most famous and lethal outbreak was the so-called Spanish flu pandemic (type A influenza, H1N1 subtype), which lasted from 1918 to 1919. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people while current estimates say 50 million to 100 million people worldwide were killed. This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed as many people as the Black Death. This huge death toll was caused by an extremely high infection rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms. Indeed, symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, cholera, or typhoid. One observer wrote, "One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred." The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.
Inqlings | A.C. pub sues over 'dive' review (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A dive, you say? The operators of the Irish Pub & Inn in Atlantic City are suing Metrocorp, which publishes Philly Mag, in federal court over a blurb in last winter's edition of A.C. Now, a Metrocorp publication that contained reviews of about 80 bars, eateries and clubs.
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THE PANDEMIC VACCINE PUZZLE A seven-part series on the chances for immunizing the world against pandemic flu (CIDRAP)
Editor's note: This article was originally published in CIDRAP News as a seven-part series running from October 25 through November 2, 2007. It investigates the prospects for development of vaccines to head off the threat of an influenza pandemic posed by the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
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Sanofi-Aventis's bet on vaccines may be about to pay off (International Herald Tribune)
While analysts are split on Sanofi's stock, they say the vaccine division has hidden value.
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Ready for the big chill? (Portsmouth Herald)
Oh you feel her all right. You know winter is lurking in that dim waking light, at the edge of the 5 p.m. sundown and in that rain that spits something a bit less liquid at you. You know she's about to pounce, then plummet us into weeks, even months of...
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Game day (Canada.com)
- Top stories, scores, stats, players and more.
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UConn's Mel Thomas Works On Control, Confidence (Hartford Courant)
UConn's Thomas Getting Into Elite Company Each player leaves some type of impression on the UConn women's basketball program before her time to go finally arrives.
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Can McLaren keep confidence growing? (Connecticut Post)
STORRS — The work that sophomore forward Kaili McLaren put in during the off-season has her in the best shape of her life. She shed much of the weight that left her a few steps slower than the
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Warriors getting hurt by their leaky defense (Contra Costa Times)
OAKLAND -- With five days between games, the Warriors find themselves currently in the midst of one of their longest downtimes of the 2007-08 season. It can hardly come at a more opportune moment.
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GM Place ice a carnival-like circus of sorts at practice (Vancouver Province)
The circus came to town Monday. In a carnival-like setting at GM Place, the Vancouver Canucks went from station to station and practised playing pucks in their feet, pucks in mid-air and putting pucks through obstacles.
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Wittman, McCants Talk After Wolves Practice (NBA.com)
Head coach Randy Wittman and Rashad McCants addressed assembled media after Thursday's practice about the Wolves' progress, McCants' recovery from his ankle sprain as well as the team's West Coast road trip.
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Inqlings | A.C. pub sues over 'dive' review (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The symptoms of human influenza were clearly described by Hippocrates roughly 2400 years ago. Since then, the virus has caused numerous pandemics. Historical data on influenza are difficult to interpret, because the symptoms can be similar to those of other diseases, such as diphtheria, pneumonic plague, typhoid fever, dengue, or typhus. The first convincing record of an influenza pandemic was of an outbreak in 1580, which began in Asia and spread to Europe via Africa. In Rome over 8,000 people were killed, and several Spanish cities were almost wiped out. Pandemics continued sporadically throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, with the pandemic of 1830–1833 being particularly widespread; it infected approximately a quarter of the people exposed.
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