Just as flu discussions went cold influenza A-H1N1 wants to talk again. The US was less concerned as the American media continued to bring in scanty reports. The average Joe and Joanne finding flu articles buried here and there on Google. Where were the diehards on search? Over at Flu Wiki most likely. Once the [...]

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When my article, asking “are you worrying too much about H1N1 flu?” appeared on SciScoop last week I was a little nervous. I checked it once, twice, and then wondered if anything I’d said could indicate a small amount of mental illness or a mid-age onset of obsession… I don’t believe [...]

No one is putting their lives or practices on hold because of swine flu. This could just burn out, although it is an H1N1 strain so it changes fast. Milder flu strains have a pattern in their course, they replicate from strong to weaker… always. It starts out as Gangbusters with a base of generalized [...]