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Opinion: Preventing a Blasphemy Pandemic
By not in system - AOL NewsPandemics have two key components: a novel and infectious agent and an oblivious populace. This week's rally in which more than 40,000 Pakistani citizens declared their support for blasphemy laws makes one wonder: Do Pakistan's blasphemy laws have the potential to turn into a pandemic for the Islamic world? These laws sprung into the limelight in November 2010 when Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, was sentenced to death after she was accused of blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. The stakes were raised when Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's largest province, Punjab, publicly called ...
Tobacco-Based Vaccines Could Pwn Future Pandemics
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Pandemics and bio-terror threats might one day be a health hazard of the past. A massive undertaking by the U.S. military is rapidly transforming vaccine production, yielding fast-tracked approaches to wipe out new illnesses before they spread. The military's been after better bio-threat prevention methods since 2005, but it was only last year that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched its Blue Angel program to come up with quicker responses to emerging flu viruses. H1N1 (the virus originally referred to by the media as "swine flu") was the catalyst for ...
The Anti-Vaccine Movement: Blinding Us With Pseudoscience
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyDespite the American infatuation with gambling, in other areas of life we shy away from random chance. We like cause and effect. We like the story of one thing leading to another in a nice, straight line. And if such a story does not declare itself, we'll invent one. Our need for a clear, predictable pattern leads us down the wayward path of conspiracy theories. In the absence of a cause that makes sense to us, we'll spend hours, days, years looking for one. Why? Peter Jennings alluded to a possible reason in his thorough 2003 documentary "Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination ...
WHO Admits Errors in Handling H1N1
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(April 12) -- The World Health Organization has admitted to errors and a lack of clear communication in handling the H1N1 pandemic last year, but its top influenza expert says the agency doesn't regret proclaiming the flu a pandemic. "The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty [in a pandemic]. I think we did not convey the uncertainty. That was interpreted by many as a nontransparent process," Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's leading influenza expert, told a panel of experts convening this week for a post-pandemic analysis of the organization's response to H1N1. The agency uses a six-stage ...
Swine Flu a Global Pandemic
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWorld Health Organization officials emerged from an emergency meeting today and announced that swine flu has reached the level of a global pandemic, its first such determination in more than 40 years. ...
Will Obama Protect the Media From Pig Flu?
By Ken Layne - Politics DailyNo matter what the crisis, Barack Obama and his do-gooder administration seem ready to personally save whatever is in trouble: car companies, banks, even people without jobs and people who cannot afford their house payments.But in one crucial department, this young new president offers no solution, no bailout. When it comes to newspapers, Obama has been silent.Now that the terrible pandemic looms over America, it is time for the president to make the hard choices and announce to the world that his first priority must be saving Washington journalists from the H1N1 flu. ...
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