The Central American country of Costa Rica is reporting the first death connected to the H3N2 virus.
On January 25, 2012, a 30 year old man died from H3N2. The man had other health issues before getting sick with H3N2. They believe it is the new H3N2v virus.
Two other Costa Ricans died the week before, […] Continue Reading…
“The seasonal vaccine is not designed to protect against H3N2v. Limited studies show that it may boost immunity against this virus in adults, but will probably not offer protection for children.”-U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The U.S. CDC is concerned after 12 people caught H3N2v (the ‘v’ stands for “variant”) between August and […] Continue Reading…
Lawmakers in New Jersey are considering a bill that would make it mandatory for health care workers to get flu shots every year.
It could be because of the growing concern over new flu viruses, like the H3N2v. However, Canadian and Greek studies have shown that current vaccines have no effect on the new flu […] Continue Reading…
“The whole world is keeping a watch for possible mutation of the virus. We are now screening local patients who have come down with serious flu symptoms or complications of H3N2v.”-Chou Jih-haw, Taiwan CDC
On February 10, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced they are concerned of a possible outbreak of H3N2, after […] Continue Reading…
In past postings I reported on what appears to be the average number of magnitude 6.5 or greater earthquakes that hit the Pacific Ring of Fire.
In going through the USGS’s Significant Earthquakes of the World, all the way back to 1999, it seems the Pacific Ring of Fire has about 50 per year.
The Pacific […] Continue Reading…
Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan and Bush Sr official, has published a new book called The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take. But guess what? He says the wealthy have been getting huge tax cuts for decades, and that’s part of what put the federal government […] Continue Reading…
Argentine Foreign Minister, Hector Timerman, demanded that the United Kingdom “…refrain from this military escalation that they are carrying out in the South Atlantic with the introduction of the latest generation of warships and warplanes, and dispatching a nuclear submarine with the capacity to unload nuclear weapons.”
While some British officials say the sending of Royal […] Continue Reading…
“In the nuclear field, major achievements have been made by the Iranian nation in recent years. Today, not only has this nation become nuclear, but it has also succeeded in meeting a large portion of its needs in this field.”-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
On February 11, 2012, the Iranian President not only praised the nuclear […] Continue Reading…
Almost reminiscent of the British killer cops who started riots in poor London suburbs by killing an unarmed father, white New York City cops intentionally stalked a poor black man, and it was caught on video.
Ramarley Graham, 18, died last Thursday after NYPD broke into his grandmother’s home, went upstairs and held his grandmother […] Continue Reading…
The following statements are from Artur Manfred Max-Neef, a Chilean economist, who began teaching economics in the 1960s at Berkeley in California.
“This economy is crazy and poisonous. I am an economist, and I have been fighting against the economy that is taught the way it is being taught and being practiced. I have been […] Continue Reading…