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Take a Sick Day, Please: H1N1 and the Office
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAs a near-constant sneezer when the weather changes, flu season is a chance for me to experience the kind of general public shunning usually reserved for tax auditors or people who attempt to leash their cats. On crowded trains, I not only have my own seat, but usually an empty one next to me as well. At the grocery store checkout, other customers eye me suspiciously and dig in their purses or pockets for bottles of Purell. The other day, after I sat down at the table next to him, an alarmed man promptly fled the coffee shop, muttering about germs. As it so happens, I'm not sick -- just ...
World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level to Phase 5
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAmid calls for calm and simple precautions, the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 late yesterday, one shy of the most serious phase, a full-blown pandemic:"It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic," Margaret Chan, WHO's director general, said in Geneva. "We do not have all the answers right now, but we will get them." It was the first time that WHO has declared a Phase 5 outbreak, the second-highest on its threat scale, indicating that a pandemic could be imminent.While the death toll in Mexico rose by 1, to 160, reports of new ...
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