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		<title>Argentina confirms 3 more swine flu deaths, bringing total to 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine health authorities on Tuesday confirmed three more swine flu deaths, bringing the nation&#8217;s total to four as it enters the South American winter flu season.

Two of the patients who died lived in Buenos Aires province and one in the Argentine capital itself, Vice Minister of Health Carlos Soratti told a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA: over-the-counter cold spray Zicam has caused loss of smell in more than 100 patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;WASHINGTON — Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said.

The over-the-counter products contain zinc, an ingredient scientists say may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell. The other products affected by the Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s announcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO chief: Flu pandemic will demonstrate tragic consequences of public health neglect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edith M. Lederer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS — The swine flu pandemic will demonstrate &#8220;in extremely tragic ways&#8221; the consequences of the failure to promote public health and ensure basic care during pregnancy and childbirth in developing countries, the head of the World Health Organization warned.

Dr. Margaret Chan told a U.N. Forum on Advancing Global Health in the Face of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wide-open beaches, empty pool chairs in Mexican resorts as country recovers from swine flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa J. Adams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TULUM, Mexico — The last time Bud Olson visited Mexico, he ended up in a hospital with kidney stones and missed the ancient Mayan ruins in the seaside town of Tulum.

So when he heard that swine flu was sweeping through Mexico just weeks before he was to return this year, the 43-year-old Seattle, Washington, resident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu fatality in the UK; appears to be 1st reported outside the Americas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — A person with underlying health conditions died of swine flu in Scotland on Sunday — the first reported death from the illness outside the Americas, health officials said.

Britain has been harder hit by the virus — known as H1N1— than elsewhere in Europe. Earlier Sunday, Britain had reported another 61 cases of swine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guatemala urges 2 swine flu-hit towns to shut down public activity; cases rise to 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala&#8217;s government is asking two towns to close down nearly all public venues to prevent the spread of swine flu.

Health Secretary Celso Cerezo said the virus has infected 96 people in the Central America country, including 11 in the last 24 hours. Most have recovered.
On Wednesday, Guatemala suspended all schools nationwide until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US swine flu cases near 18,000, found in all 50 states; pandemic waning except in Northeast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Nearly 5,000 new U.S. swine flu cases have been reported in the last week, due partly to its continuing spread in the Northeast.

The number of deaths rose from 27 to 45. That&#8217;s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which released new figures Friday. There are nearly 18,000 probable and confirmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drugmakers rush to make a swine flu vaccine, but politics may complicate who actually gets it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — With swine flu now an official pandemic, the race is on among drugmakers to produce a vaccine.

GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday after the World Health Organization declared a global flu epidemic that it would be ready within weeks to begin large-scale vaccine production. Sanofi-Aventis also said it had started working on its own version. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss drugmaker Novartis says produces first batch of swine flu vaccine grown in cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BASEL, Switzerland — Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis AG said Friday it has produced a first batch of experimental swine flu vaccine, a day after the World Health Organization declared the disease a pandemic.

The vaccine hasn&#8217;t yet been tested and cannot be used in humans yet. It was made in cells, rather than grown in eggs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says swine flu pandemic has begun _ first global flu epidemic in 41 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

Thursday&#8217;s announcement by the World Health Organization doesn&#8217;t mean the virus is any more lethal — only that its spread is considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDC officials say swine flu pandemic declaration no cause for alarm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — U.S. health officials say they won&#8217;t need to change their response now that swine flu has been declared a pandemic.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that the government has already been treating the outbreak like a pandemic. Flu medicine has been sent out to states and money has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at the world&#8217;s flu pandemics: 3 in the 20th century, 1 in the 21st century</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/a-look-at-the-worlds-flu-pandemics-3-in-the-20th-century-1-in-the-21st-century-79072/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Flu pandemics — epidemics on a global scale — have struck three times in the 20th century and once in the 21st century, varying widely in their severity. Here&#8217;s a look at the world&#8217;s flu pandemics.

— The 1918 Spanish flu: This pandemic may have been the deadliest outbreak ever, with experts estimating it killed between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Health Organization&#8217;s pandemic alert phases and what they mean</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the World Health Organization&#8217;s alert system for epidemics, phase 6 is the highest level and means a pandemic — a global epidemic — is under way. Here&#8217;s a look at the phases.

—Phase 3: An animal or human-animal flu virus causes some infections in people, but with little or no subsequent human-to-human transmission. WHO had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO chief declares first global flu epidemic in 41 years as swine flu cases pile up worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the spread of swine flu has created the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

The announcement by WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan came Thursday as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere to near 30,000 cases.
Chan said she decided to raise the pandemic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary Box: Declaring swine flu global epidemic changes little; described as &#8220;moderate&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LEVEL 6: World health authorities declared the new swine flu to be a pandemic — the first global epidemic since the Hong Kong flu of 1968. The pandemic alert status was raised to level 6, the highest possible.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? This confirms that swine flu is spreading in a second region outside the Americas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO tells members a global outbreak of swine flu has begun _ 1st pandemic in 41 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years. Thursday&#8217;s announcement by the World Health Organization doesn&#8217;t mean the virus is any more lethal — only that its spread is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Health Organization likely to declare swine flu pandemic as cases spread worldwide</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/world-health-organization-likely-to-declare-swine-flu-pandemic-as-cases-spread-worldwide-78450/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization held an emergency swine flu meeting Thursday and was likely to declare the first flu pandemic in 41 years as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.

Health officials from Scotland, Indonesia and Thailand said the agency would declare a swine flu pandemic — a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO likely to declare swine flu pandemic Thursday as cases spread worldwide</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/who-likely-to-declare-swine-flu-pandemic-thursday-as-cases-spread-worldwide-78447/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization held an emergency swine flu meeting Thursday and was likely to declare the first flu pandemic in 41 years as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.

Health officials from Scotland, Indonesia and Thailand said the agency would declare a swine flu pandemic — a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats close in on war funding agreement; House and Senate votes next week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill Democrats are closing in on agreement on a war funding bill that&#8217;s now likely to cost taxpayers well over $100 billion with the late addition of more flu-fighting funds and money to subsidize new car purchases.

And, under a compromise revealed by House and Senate aides Wednesday, detainees held at the Guantanamo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO gets ready to declare a swine flu pandemic after quizzing countries about their outbreaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization is gearing up to declare a swine flu pandemic, a move that could trigger both the large-scale production of vaccines and questions about why the step was delayed for weeks as the virus continued to spread.

On Wednesday, WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan quizzed eight countries with large swine flu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO chief calls key govts to discuss sharp rise in swine flu cases, possible pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization quizzed health officials from several nations in a conference call Wednesday, asking about a recent spike in swine flu cases that may show the world is already in a global epidemic.

WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham confirmed that Director-General Margaret Chan was speaking to &#8220;seven or eight&#8221; countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US military confirms 4 more swine flu cases in Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN — The U.S. military says it has confirmed four more cases of swine flu among troops in Germany, for a total of six.

Military spokesman Steve Davis says the four patients — two Navy and two Air Force personnel — were diagnosed with swine flu while at the military&#8217;s medical center in Landstuhl for other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says swine flu pandemic &#8216;very close,&#8217; expresses concerns about Australia and Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Jordans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Tuesday a spike in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce the first flu pandemic in 41 years. It also expressed concern about an unusual rise in severe illness from the disease in Canada.

WHO&#8217;s flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the agency wanted to avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy reports 21 sailors, Marines aboard USS Iwo Jima had swine flu; all cases mild</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy is reporting 21 cases of swine flu on board the USS Iwo Jima.

Navy spokesman Cmd. Cappy Surette says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case on May 27. The amphibious assault ship left New York on May 26 after participating in Fleet Week.
Surette says the cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO concern at rise in Australia, Canada swine flu cases; says pandemic &#8220;very close&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Jordans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Tuesday a spike in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce the first flu pandemic in 41 years. It also expressed concern about an unusual rise in severe illness from the disease in Canada.

WHO&#8217;s flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the agency wanted to avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO chief Margaret Chan says &#8220;on the surface of it&#8221; world is seeing swine flu pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Jordans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak appears to have reached pandemic proportions.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says &#8220;on the surface of it&#8221; she believes a pandemic has been reached.
Chan says she will hold a conference call with governments Wednesday in order to verify some of the reports she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spokeswoman: Not clear how long New Orleans mayor will be quarantined in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — A spokeswoman for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says Chinese officials haven&#8217;t said when they&#8217;ll end a quarantine for the mayor, his wife and a security guard.

Nagin spokeswoman Ceeon Quiett said Nagin is feeling fine and that the three, as of early Tuesday, had not been tested for swine flu. They&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China quarantines New Orleans Mayor Nagin, wife, guard after swine flu suspected on flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Bohrer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife and a security guard in Shanghai after another traveler on their flight from New Jersey exhibited suspected swine flu symptoms.

Nagin&#8217;s office said the three were quarantined in a hotel Sunday as a precaution and were exhibiting no flu symptoms.
&#8220;He&#8217;s doing well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China quarantines New Orleans Mayor Nagin after passenger on flight shows flu-like symptoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife in a Shanghai hotel after a passenger on their flight exhibited symptoms suspected to be swine flu.

Nagin&#8217;s office said the couple and a security guard were quarantined Sunday as a precaution and were exhibiting no flu symptoms.
In an e-mail statement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shootout kills 16 gunmen, 2 soldiers in Acapulco; tourists cower in hotels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalia Parra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ACAPULCO, Mexico — It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Outlaws holed up in a hillside mansion fought heavily armed Mexican soldiers with a rain of gunfire and grenades that had tourists cowering in hotels nearby.

Roughly 3,000 shots and 50 explosions marked the four-hour battle late Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican military official: Shootout kills 15 gunmen, 1 soldier in Acapulco</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalia Parra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ACAPULCO, Mexico — It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Masked and heavily armed Mexican soldiers battled outlaws holed up in a cliffside mansion in a four-hour shootout that had tourists cowering in hotels nearby.

Roughly 3,000 shots flew, and 50 grenades exploded during the raucous gunbattle late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans mayor quarantined in China after passenger on his plane had flu-like symptoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife have been quarantined in China after a passenger on their flight exhibited flu-like symptoms.

Nagin&#8217;s office said Sunday the couple and a security guard were quarantined at a hotel in Shanghai as a precaution and were exhibiting no swine flu symptoms.
His office says a passenger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New CDC chief, likely to trade in sticks for carrots; will have less power than in NYC role</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Dr. Thomas Frieden has swung a big stick as New York City&#8217;s top health official, pushing through bans on smoking and artery-clogging trans fats.

The New York Post called him &#8220;Dr. Buttinsky.&#8221; Others attacked him as a wrong-headed crusader. But smoking plummeted and the city made admired inroads against cancer and other chronic diseases.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baffled US pork industry questions if Russia, China pork bans are to protect their own markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Meredith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DES MOINES, Iowa — Continued bans on U.S. pork imports by China, Russia and more than a dozen other countries have baffled government and industry officials, leading some to speculate that the issue is more about market share than health concerns.

The bans, instituted in the wake of the swine flu outbreak, cost the U.S. hog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large jump in US swine flu cases pushes WHO&#8217;s global tally close to 20,000 people</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/large-jump-in-us-swine-flu-cases-pushes-whos-global-tally-close-to-20000-people-70710/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the number of swine flu cases worldwide has reached 19,273 after the United States reported over 1,000 new infections.

WHO says the virus has been confirmed in 66 countries, with Egypt and Nicaragua the latest to report one case each. The virus is responsible for 117 deaths, mostly in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says swine flu alert moving closer to global epidemic as cases hit 18,965, with 117 dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Jordans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is &#8220;getting closer&#8221; to declaring a global outbreak of the swine flu virus as the infection appears to be taking hold outside of North America.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the disease has reached 64 countries and infected 18,965 people, causing 117 deaths.
The overwhelming majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Greek students catch swine flu in Scotland, scientists say the virus spreading widely</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 20:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Two Greek students caught swine flu in Scotland last week, proof that the virus is circulating more widely than European authorities admit.

The two men, students in Edinburgh, were diagnosed with swine flu when they returned to Greece last week. Neither reported any known contact with a confirmed swine flu case or any history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US official preparing Obama&#8217;s trip to Normandy diagnosed with swine flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Charlton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — A U.S. official in Normandy to prepare President Barack Obama&#8217;s upcoming visit has been diagnosed with swine flu and is being treated in a hospital, French authorities said Friday.

Eleven other members of the U.S. delegation were placed in isolation for 24 hours in their hotel rooms and given medical treatment, said an official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Health Organization meets on swine flu vaccine; expert says vaccine will be produced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — As swine flu cases topped 6,600 worldwide, vaccine makers and other experts met Thursday at the World Health Organization in Geneva to discuss the tough decisions that must be made quickly to fight the evolving virus.

Pharmaceutical companies are ready to begin making a swine flu vaccine — but as the virus constantly mutates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angered by China and others, Mexico warmly grateful to US over response to swine flu outbreak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Olson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — Swine flu has infected Mexico&#8217;s relations with China and other countries that have canceled airline flights and halted some trade. But its most prickly neighbor — the United States — now seems like the country&#8217;s most loyal friend.

Mexico is smarting from what it considers discriminatory actions by countries it had considered friendly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quarantines spread in China, but Mexico relaxing as global swine flu caseload tops 6,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 22:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Eduardo Castillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — In China, mask-wearing police cordoned off more hotels Wednesday, quarantining anyone who came in contact with swine flu patients, no matter how mild their symptoms. Not so in Mexico, where the health secretary encouraged tourists to come relax in their favorite vacation spots despite a growing swine flu caseload.

The global outbreak appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wary about future, WHO says Tamiflu should be saved for really sick, like pregnant women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become more dangerous.

The global outbreak appears mild, but skittishness is evident. Not long after Switzerland lifted its advisory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says Tamiflu should be saved for the really sick; CDC says infected pregnant women need it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Eduardo Castillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — The swine flu epidemic may seem mild now, with relatively few deaths even as the virus infects thousands in at least 33 countries. But experts worry it could mutate into something more dangerous — making the question of who should get antiviral therapy ever more important.

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors advise flu medicines for pregnant women with swine flu; they face greater risks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/doctors-advise-flu-medicines-for-pregnant-women-with-swine-flu-they-face-greater-risks-60772/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Pregnant women should take prescription flu medicines if they are diagnosed with the new swine flu, health officials said Tuesday.

So far, the swine flu has not proven to be much more dangerous than seasonal influenza, and it&#8217;s not clear whether or not pregnant women catch swine flu more often than other people. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European countries using more antivirals against swine flu than US, Mexico, WHO says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 02:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliane Engeler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — Europe&#8217;s heavy use of antiviral medication against swine flu does not appear to be creating drug resistance but countries should follow the lead of Mexico and the United States and target the medicine to patients most at risk, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

The swine flu virus has sickened some 5,251 people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico says worst is over despite rising swine flu toll; Castro blasts slow response</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 23:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Eduardo Castillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — European countries have been using antiviral drugs much more aggressively than the United States and Mexico to combat swine flu — a difference in strategy that could have a big impact as the virus that is already linked to 63 deaths spreads around the planet.

The World Health Organization recommends the U.S. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Swine flu may be up to 23,000 in Mexico; Castro blasts Mexico for slow response</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-swine-flu-may-be-up-to-23000-in-mexico-castro-blasts-mexico-for-slow-response-60143/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — The swine flu virus spread to more countries Tuesday as scientists estimated the new strain could have sickened 23,000 people in Mexico alone before anyone realized it was an epidemic.

Fidel Castro, meanwhile, accused Mexico of hiding the epidemic until after President Barack Obama visited last month.
Mexican Health Secretary Jose Cordova said his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists say swine flu may have sickened 23,000 in Mexico; Cuba, Thailand join infected list</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — The swine flu virus was confirmed on Tuesday to have spread to more countries as scientists estimated the new strain could have sickened 23,000 people in Mexico alone before anyone realized it was an epidemic.

Mexican Health Secretary Jose Cordova said his nation&#8217;s shutdown of schools — which was lifted in most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia cancels Intercontinental Cup youth soccer tournament over swine flu threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian soccer officials have canceled next month&#8217;s Intercontinental Cup under-23 tournament due to the threat of the spread of swine flu, local media reported Tuesday.

The Football Association of Malaysia canceled the eight-team tournament after consulting with the nation&#8217;s Health Ministry, the New Straits Times reported.
Among the teams which had been expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss drug maker Roche donates over 5M packs of anti-viral Tamiflu to UN health agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BASEL, Switzerland — Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche Holding AG said Tuesday it is donating 5.65 million packets of Tamiflu, one of two anti-viral drugs known to be effective against swine flu, to the World Health Organization.

Roche said 5 million packets will be used to replenish stockpiles that were depleted when WHO sent previously donated supplies [...]]]></description>
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