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		<title>H1N1 scare pays off</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2010/04/08/h1n1-scare-pays-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government&#8217;s purchase of H1N1 vaccines cost taxpayers $1.6 billion, according to figures reported recently by the Washington Post. Despite the relatively mild effect of the actual swine flu pandemic, the panic by U.S. health officials resulted in big profits for Big Pharma, with a resulting glut of flu vaccine that is now being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst type of drug-resistant TB appears in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/28/worst-type-of-drug-resistant-tb-appears-in-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember the case of Andrew Speaker. He went to Italy to be married and returned with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that caused a national furor and was reported on this website. The furor arose because Speaker traveled by plane with a highly contagious, hard-to-cure disease. At one point, Speaker was diagnosed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor to sue Taiwan CDC over swine flu vaccination death</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/22/doctor-to-sue-taiwan-cdc-over-swine-flu-vaccination-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taiwan News is reporting that a gynecologist identified only as Dr. Liu plans to sue the Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan over the death of his seven-year-old son in the wake of an H1N1 vaccination the child was given at school on November 19. The case has been made public by Chang Yao-tsung, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu may be on the wane</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/03/swine-flu-may-be-on-the-wane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve made it this far, chances are better you won&#8217;t be getting the swine flu. The fall wave has peaked, experts seem to agree, and while there will surely be more cases to come, they are on the wane. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that another (winter) wave may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu: no big deal for some, deadly for others</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/27/swine-flu-no-big-deal-for-some-deadly-for-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits it: H1N1 swine flu is a mild disease for most people, but for those whom it hits hard, it is often fatal. Approximately a third of those who die from the disease do so because of other complications&#8212;generally pneumonia or MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaria Day in the Americas 2009</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/05/malaria-day-in-the-americas-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/05/malaria-day-in-the-americas-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday happens to be Malaria Day in the Americas 2009, and while malaria is not much of a problem here in the United States, it does affect our neighbors to the south and is a major problem in Africa. So we thought we&#8217;d take the time to acquaint you with the issues. Malaria kills more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The number one killer</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/02/the-number-one-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you suppose is the number one killer among infectious diseases? Ask a number of people, and you will likely get a number of different answers: AIDS, malaria&#8212;maybe even this year, swine flu. But the answer isn&#8217;t among the above: It&#8217;s pneumonia. Pneumonia claims more than four million lives annually. Just within the U.S., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu U.S. national emergency</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/24/swine-flu-u-s-national-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/24/swine-flu-u-s-national-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama today declared the swine flu epidemic in this country a national emergency. Forty-six of the 50 states now have widespread flu contagion. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to note that this is a proactive measure &#8212; not a response to a new development,&#8221; an administration official said. &#8220;H1N1 is moving rapidly, as expected. By the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts closer to compulsory vaccinations</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/14/fox-news-on-compulsory-massachusetts-vaccinations/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/14/fox-news-on-compulsory-massachusetts-vaccinations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has pending legislation mandating that non-health professionals (commonly read as police) can enter homes and force vaccination of children against the will of both the children and their parents if the governor or state health department have declared a state of medical emergency, as would occur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washing hands likely ineffective against H1N1</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/05/washing-hands-likely-ineffective-against-h1n1/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/05/washing-hands-likely-ineffective-against-h1n1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word&#8217;s been out for several weeks now: Newseek has reported that hand-washing won&#8217;t help you avoid swine flu. That sounds like the bad news, but it&#8217;s really the good news: you&#8217;re not likely to get swine flu from touching things that someone who has swine flu has touched. The most likely way to get [...]]]></description>
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