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How Are Florida and Utah Keeping Swine Flu at Bay?

When FiveThirtyEight's political minesweeper Nate Silver analyzes the data from Google Flu Trends, there are bound to be some notable results. We're previously written about how Google Flu Trends uses flu-related search data to ...READ»

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Tracking H1N1 in (Near) Real Time

In July, the World Health Organization threw its hands up, declared H1N1 the fastest spreading pandemic ever, and said tracking individual cases was hopeless. But that hasn't stopped Google and, now, GE Healthcare from trying. ...READ»

H1N1 iPhone Apps Reach Fever Pitch, Prices are Nothing to Sneeze At
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H1N1 iPhone Apps Reach Fever Pitch, Prices Are Nothing to Sneeze At

Reports about the new swine flu surfaced last March. By April, there was an App for that. Now there are close to 30 swine flu-related Apps in Apple's Store, the most recent from Harvard Medical School. The HMS Mobile Swine Flu ...READ»

Why Vaccine Makers Can't Keep Up with the H1N1 Virus
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Why Vaccine Makers Can't Keep Up with the H1N1 Virus

There isn't enough H1N1 vaccine to go around, which is why President Barack Obama declared the outbreak a national emergency over the weekend. Why can't we produce H1N1 vaccines fast enough? Because of chicken eggs.READ»

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Tracking H1N1: Google Flu Trends Go Global

Earlier today, Google announced that it was expanding its flu trends program to 16 additional countries, bringing the total to 20 countries. Google first released the program last November after noticing a geographical correlation ...READ»

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Diagrammed: H1N1 Please Stay Home

Or, if you wake up looking like this.READ»

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China's Sinovac Is Exporting H1N1 Vaccine, but Who Will Vaccinate the Chinese?

Chinese vaccine manufacturer, Sinovac has the first government-approved H1N1 vaccine in its possession, and now stands to make a killing in exports. Mexico has already ordered 10 million doses, according to a recent report in China ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: The Swine Flu Epidemic

Is the U.S. hoovering up Tamiflu, while the rest of the world suffers? Not so fast.READ»

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Outbreaks Near Me iPhone App Tracks Swine Flu Progression

While we wait for scientists to perfect a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab have offered up a helpful tool in our arsenal against the flu: the Outbreaks Near Me iPhone app, ...READ»

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Can Protein Sciences Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine in Time? Update: Likely No

As the start of a new school year begins, concerns over H1N1--aka swine flu--are growing. Everyone's waiting to hear when a vaccine will be available, and earlier this summer, the CDC predicted that 120 million doses ... READ»

The Great Flu Video Game Turns Pandemic Into Pastime

The Great Flu Video Game Turns Pandemic Into Pastime

You're the head of the World Pandemic Control, and you've just received word that Gamers' Flu--a rare, highly contagious disease--is spreading through Europe. Should you close the airports, or the markets? Should you distribute face ...READ»

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My Brush with Swine Flu--We Dodged It, But What About Next Time?

At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force.  Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time?  Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ»

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Twitter Catches Swine Flu, But Don't Shoot the Messenger

As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»

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