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24 Sep 2009 08:12

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U.S., World: Well, that’s something; an AIDS vaccine that might just work

  • 31.2% cut in HIV infections with the new drug, compared to a placebo source
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15 Sep 2009 20:25

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U.S.: Coming soon: That swine flu vaccine you’ve all heard about

  • 195 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine will be made, with 40-50 million doses coming by mid-October source
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10 Sep 2009 23:49

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U.S.: A little swine flu vaccine goes a long way, apparently

  • one shot to avoid H1N1; time to party! source
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02 Sep 2009 10:28

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Biz: There’s no cure for cancer, but drugmakers sure want to find it

Drug companies like Pfizer – which has little history with cancer drugs – are throwing lots of money at the cancer problem right now. It’s a big risk. source
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30 Aug 2009 22:12

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U.S.: All the big trends hit New York City first, including swine flu

  • 10% of New Yorkers may have already had swine flu source
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24 Aug 2009 22:00

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U.S.: This swine flu number should scare the bejesus out of you

  • 90,000 swine flu deaths predicted this fall source
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24 Aug 2009 11:23

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World: Discrimination against AIDS is still alive and well in Vietnam

  • We survived the French bombings and the American bombings … I’d rather be bombed to death than die slowly of AIDS.
  • Nguyen Thi Thuoc • Thuoc, a 70-year-old Vietnamese woman, kept her grandchildren out of school because of 15 new students who were HIV positive. Discrimination against the HIV-positive is widespread in the country; this is just one example. “You can have wonderful policies and wonderful legislation,” notes Vietnam UNICEF representative Jesper Morch, but without a the right education campaigns, “you’ll have trouble enforcing them.” • source
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23 Aug 2009 14:00

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U.S.: Live in the U.S.? Expect a swine flu vaccination in your arm soon

  • 50% of people will be vaccinated in the next few months source
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06 Aug 2009 01:48

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Offbeat: A famous koala dies. OK, pretty much the only famous one.

  • Say it ain’t so, Sam! Sam the koala became famous earlier this year after being offered a water bottle in the midst of the Australian brushfires. A photographer took a shot of it and it ended up plastered in papers around the world. Unfortunately, Sam had the same problem that many koalas have in the part of Australia he lived: Chlamydia. The disease ravaged the population of Victoria, Australia’s koalas, and it got Sam, too. Hopefully koala heaven is full of firefighters and full of water bottles. source
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04 Aug 2009 00:55

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World: China tries, fails to avoid the pneumonic plague like the plague

  • 3 people have died from the pneumonic plague so far source
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