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		<title>New flu strikes lungs: WHO</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/31/new-flu-strikes-lungs-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged what regular readers of Health Spectator already knew: that the &#8220;new&#8221; H1N1 swine flu has a tendency to devastate the lungs in at least a significant portion of the people it infects. We reported on July 23 that University of Wisconsin virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka had found H1N1 produces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO: new case of avian flu in Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2007/08/23/who-new-case-of-avian-flu-in-indonesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. A 28-year-old female from Tabanan District, in Bali Province, developed flu symptoms on August 14, was hospitalized on August 18, then died in hospital on August 21. She was a poultry trader.
Case investigators found that she collected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New diseases emerge at alarming rate: The World Health Report 2007</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2007/08/23/new-diseases-emerge-at-alarming-rate-the-world-health-report-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization released its annual report today, with emphasis on the changing world situation regarding communicable diseases. In her report, Inspector General Dr. Margaret Chan noted that since 1951, when the WHO issued its first set of legally binding regulations to prevent the international spread of disease, much has changed.
In 1951, Chan noted, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First U.S. citizen dies from swine flu</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/06/first-us-citizen-dies-from-swine-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first death in the U.S. from swine flu was a Mexican toddler whose family was visiting in Texas. Now the disease has claimed the life of a U.S. citizen as well, that of 33-year-old teacher Judy Trunnell of Cameron County, Texas. Cameron County is on the Mexico border. According to the Texas Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says swine flu pandemic might infect 2 billion</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/07/who-says-swine-flu-pandemic-might-infect-2-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization reported today that should the current North American swine flu outbreak become a pandemic, it might affect a third of the world&#8217;s population. WHO&#8217;s Keiji Fukuda, an influenza expert, said that while there was no predicting at this point what will actually happen, a pandemic would probably infect about 2 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More deaths from &#8220;new flu&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/11/more-deaths-from-new-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swine flu spreads; another American dies


Electron micrograph of swine flu virus.

Although present dangers from swine flu may be less severe than originally feared, victims continue to die from the disease as it spreads across the globe. The latest developments place new cases in Australia, China and Japan, while new deaths linked to the disease have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu continues unabated</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/13/swine-flu-continues-unabated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past two days have seen a substantial increase in swine flu cases, with the state of Illinois announcing 555 cases on Tuesday. That count was 67 more than Monday&#8217;s total&#8212;a 14% increase in one day. Meanwhile, Cuba, Finland and Thailand announced their first cases yesterday. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine dead in U.S. of swine flu</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/20/eight-dead-with-probable-ninth-in-us-of-swine-flu/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/20/eight-dead-with-probable-ninth-in-us-of-swine-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 02:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, 21 New York City schools---two of them private---have been closed in the wake of the H1N1 epidemic there. ]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan, Kuwait and Iceland now have flu</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/25/taiwan-kuwait-and-iceland-now-have-flu/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/05/25/taiwan-kuwait-and-iceland-now-have-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 02:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[H1N1 spreads to five new countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the H1N1 virus has spread to Taiwan, Kuwait, Iceland, Switzerland and Honduras, with a total 12,515 people infected. The death toll has reached 91. Eighty of those deaths have occurred in Mexico, a country that also accounts for 4,174 of the total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. deaths from new flu reach 27</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/06/05/us-deaths-from-new-flu-reach-27/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/06/05/us-deaths-from-new-flu-reach-27/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the &#8220;new&#8221; A(H1N1) swine flu spreads in the U.S., 13,217 cases are current in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. There were 27 U.S. deaths from the flu as of 11 am today, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. At the time of our last [...]]]></description>
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