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		<title>6 months after swine flu virus identified: No doomsday, but this story isn&#8217;t over yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — It was six months ago that scientists discovered an ominous new flu virus, touching off fears of a catastrophic global outbreak that could cause people to drop dead in the streets. Doomsday, of course, never came to pass.

Now that the initial scare over the swine flu has subsided, health officials warn we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notable dates in the AIDS epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Key dates in the AIDS epidemic:
—June 5, 1981: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports five gay men in Los Angeles are suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with failing immune systems.

—May 1983: The virus that causes AIDS is identified.
—May 26, 1988: The U.S. government mails &#8220;Understanding AIDS,&#8221; an educational pamphlet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A world first: AIDS vaccine cuts the risk of HIV infection by 31 percent in large Thai study</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/a-world-first-aids-vaccine-cuts-the-risk-of-hiv-infection-by-31-percent-in-large-thai-study-177666/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Casey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.

The World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the results &#8220;instilled new hope&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Heart patients who get the flu are more likely to have a heart attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Heart patients who catch the flu may have more to worry about than just a fever or the sniffles: the virus could also spark a heart attack, new research shows.

Amid the global outbreak of swine flu, experts say it&#8217;s crucial that heart patients get vaccinated against both regular flu and swine flu to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HEALTHBEAT: In Duke dorms, researchers try to detect flu, other viruses before symptoms appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauran Neergaard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Coughed on by somebody with the flu? Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine — with a mere drop of blood — who will get sick before the sniffling and fever set in. And they&#8217;re turning to hundreds of dorm-dwelling freshmen this fall to see if it works.

It&#8217;s a novel experiment: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 viruses threaten Michigan blueberry industry; scientists forced to destroy research plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David N. Goodman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT — Two destructive viruses have shown up in blueberry bushes in Michigan.

Michigan is the nation&#8217;s No. 1 producer of blueberries.
So far, the viruses have been found in just three places.
But one of those places is Michigan State University&#8217;s agricultural research station in southwestern Michigan. An outbreak of blueberry shock there is forcing scientists to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Pregnant women with swine flu more than 4 times as likely to be hospitalized</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Pregnant women who get swine flu are at least four times as likely to be hospitalized as other people with the virus, a new study says.

While experts don&#8217;t know if pregnant women are more susceptible to swine flu, they say once pregnant women are infected, they have a higher risk of complications.
Researchers at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Missing link&#8217; seen in primate form of AIDS virus killing chimps; other apes unharmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Scientists believe they have found a &#8220;missing link&#8221; in the evolution of the virus that causes AIDS. It bridges the gap between the infection that does no harm to most monkeys and the one that kills millions of people. That link is a virus that is killing chimpanzees in the wild at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Deadly 1918 pandemic took years to evolve, through pigs, offering lessons for today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauran Neergaard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — History&#8217;s deadliest flu pandemic, in 1918, may not have made a sudden jump from birds to people after all.

New research says the pig played a big role as an influenza mixing bowl — a gene probe with lessons for tracking today&#8217;s swine flu outbreak.
The genetic ancestor hunt shows pieces of the 1918 killer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seoul says attackers who downed Web sites in US, SKorea used IP addresses in Europe, US, South</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae-soon Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea is learning more about the mysterious cyber attacks that targeted the country and its ally the United States, but the ultimate question of who the instigators are remained elusive.

The state-run Korea Communications Commission said Friday that it had identified and blocked five Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses in five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers say swine flu inefficient in binding to nose and throat, but could get worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randolph E. Schmid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire.

The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people&#8217;s respiratory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico high schools, universities reopen after closures to curb spread of swine flu</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mexico-high-schools-universities-reopen-after-closures-to-curb-spread-of-swine-flu-55830/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 03:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — High schools and universities closed by the swine flu epidemic are reopening across Mexico, with school employees and parents carefully checking each returning student for flu symptoms.

The monitoring was being carried out for millions of students returning to high schools and universities Thursday. Primary schools won&#8217;t reopen until Monday. All schools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says up to 2B people might get swine flu if it moves to a pandemic</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/who-says-up-to-2b-people-might-get-swine-flu-if-it-moves-to-a-pandemic-2-55610/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 02:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliane Engeler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — Up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic lasting two years, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the historical record of flu pandemics indicates one-third of the world&#8217;s population gets infected in such outbreaks. Independent experts agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico cautiously begins reopening schools amid massive disinfection campaign</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mexico-cautiously-begins-reopening-schools-amid-massive-disinfection-campaign-55554/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 02:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew O. Selsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN MIGUEL TOPILEJO, Mexico — As if marshaling for war, Mexico&#8217;s government mobilized thousands of education officials and parents across the country to swiftly disinfect schools and monitor millions of returning students for signs of swine flu.

High schools and universities open Thursday after a two-week closure intended to curb the spread of the virus. Younger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says up to 2B people might get swine flu if it moves to a pandemic</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/who-says-up-to-2b-people-might-get-swine-flu-if-it-moves-to-a-pandemic-55302/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliane Engeler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — Up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic lasting two years, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the historical record of flu pandemics indicates one-third of the world&#8217;s population gets infected in such outbreaks. Independent experts agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With sanitized handshakes, Mexico returns to work after shutdown to contain swine flu virus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Corcoran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — In gleaming office towers and gritty markets, Mexicans returned to work Wednesday after a five-day swine flu shutdown, and dozens returned to a heroes&#8217; welcome from &#8220;humiliating&#8221; quarantines in China. But Mexico&#8217;s death toll rose, feeding fears of more infections now that crowds are gathering again.

The World Health Organization urged countries not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists warn swine flu virus could quickly morph from mild to deadly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A flu virus is a powerhouse of evolution, mutating at the maximum speed nature allows. A mild virus can morph into a killer and vice versa.

One change already made this year&#8217;s swine flu more of a problem, helping it spread more easily among people. The big question is: What mutations are next? That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu name change? Flu experts say virus genes are largely pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 05:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig. So while the U.S. government and now the World Health Organization are taking the swine out of &#8220;swine flu,&#8221; the experts who track the genetic heritage of the virus say this: If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia readies for swine flu threat using lessons learned from SARS, bird flu</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/asia-readies-for-swine-flu-threat-using-lessons-learned-from-sars-bird-flu-43496/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Min Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HONG KONG — Before swine flu emptied restaurants and cinemas and made surgical masks a common sight in Mexico, similar scenes unfolded in Asia earlier this decade as it dealt with the back-to-back health emergencies of SARS and bird flu.

Both of those episodes offered lessons that have helped China, Vietnam and other countries prepare for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long before swine flu, Asia learned hard lessons from SARS, bird flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Min Lee</dc:creator>
		
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Both of those episodes offered lessons that have helped China, Vietnam and other countries prepare for [...]]]></description>
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