...fashion items, and they're reconsidering major new purchases.In the past, companies have blamed poor results on flu epidemics, earthquakes and SARS. The trouble, experts and analysts say, is that these high-profile events are only part...
...to see both the number and the rates of both hospitalizations and deaths rise further in the next week or so as the flu epidemic progresses and people have the complications of the illness," he said.Vera Misenheimer knows what a bad flu season...
...the first time a North American professional sports league lost an entire season because of a labor dispute, and the first time the Stanley Cup wasn't handed out since 1919, when a flu epidemic prevented a champion from being crowned.
...pandemic figures come from deaths directly attributed to the new virus."Certainly, compared to 1918 (the Spanish flu epidemic) it was very mild," he said. "Compared to an average flu season, it is far from clear that it was mild in that...
...Clark told the subcommittee that the state agencies that work on short-term emergencies, from hurricanes to the swine flu epidemic, are preparing to gear up their response mechanism for the magnitude of a possible months-long environmental disaster...
ATLANTA - Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but today they reported for the fourth week in a row that no...
...corwin@augustachronicle.com. Augusta not spared from spanish Flu Anything that draws comparisons to the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic gets the attention of those in public health, and with good reason. The outbreak from 1918-1919 is thought to have...
...areas to educate them about preparing for potential flu epidemics. The federal government has made an extensive push...flu, as happened with the extremely deadly Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 that killed 50 million worldwide. So far...
...bench. They made it past half-court as many as six times in the first quarter. To its credit, Richmond Hill had a flu epidemic that took away some of its bench. But the result was no different than the other two times the schools met. Hephzibah...
...arrived illegally from El Salvador two decades ago. David Wright also memorably reported from Benin on how the bird flu epidemic is approaching a country where 60 percent of the people believe in voodoo. Some drink gin mixed with chicken's blood...
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