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Flu Season Advice: Take a Week Off

by Emily Holbrook on October 2, 2009 · 0 comments

1.  Do you think the H1N1 virus will pose a serious risk to businesses this flu season? The risk H1N1 poses to business is likely to be moderate, not serious. There’s a range of possibilities, but the likely scenario is that at least twice as many people will be stricken with flu this season, causing [...]

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OSHA Addressing H1N1 Ahead of Fall Return

by Emily Holbrook on September 29, 2009 · 0 comments

The flu season is expected to peak in October, just one day away. Because of this, OSHA is holding a forum on preparing your workplace for the expected outbreak of the H1N1 virus. “Workplace Preparedness: How Small Businesses Can Prepare for H1N1 Influenza” will be held tomorrow, September 30th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm [...]

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Costa Rican President Diagnosed With H1N1

by Emily Holbrook on August 12, 2009 · 0 comments

There is yet another victim of the H1N1 virus (swine flu), but this time it’s a head of state. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has been diagnosed with the highly contagious illness. Though Arias (an asthma sufferer) has stated that he feels fine apart from a sore throat and fever, doctors are keeping a close [...]

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Modern Plague Hits China

by Emily Holbrook on August 5, 2009 · 0 comments

China is moving swiftly to quarantine an area that has seen three men die of pneumonic plague, the bacteria of which, Yersinia pestis, is the same bacteria that caused the bubonic plague. Chinese officials have quarantined the town of Ziketan, home to 10,000 people in the northwest province of Qinghai. Police have also set up checkpoints [...]

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