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...fact, as Dr. Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pointed out just a few hours later, there's no real risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to ride mass transit - not with the outbreak as small as it is currently. It's true that crowded trains and subway cars can be a vector for disease transmission if sick people are on board. You can catch the flu if you're within about six feet of a sick person - otherwise known as the "breathing space" - who coughs or sneezes...
...from Mexico, even though WHO officials and other epidemiologists say such extreme measures are likely to hurt far more than they'll help. (The E.U. rejected the French request on Thursday.) "The risk of collateral damage [on top of the flu] is very real," says Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota...
Still, the WHO has urged all governments to prepare for an imminent pandemic. "The biggest question is, 'How severe will a pandemic be?'" Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, said in Switzerland. So politicians have to make like they're doing something. Gabon and Ghana have banned the import of pork, even though the flu virus cannot be contracted through eating dead pig. Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe say they are checking arriving passengers at borders and airports and have response plans of varying sophistication should an outbreak occur. In some places, they've gone much further: Authorities...
Denise A. Jillson, Executive Director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said the sales tax increase was “painful” and “difficult” for consumers who are already hard hit by the economic downturn. But she added that the negative impacts of the sales tax would probably be minimal for Harvard Square stores, since shoppers would probably view the tax as a “necessary evil” for relieving the state’s financial difficulties...
...accounts for about 17% of all spending, more than double its percentage in 1970. "Ironically, the things that may wind up being the most important are the things that we will get little or no credit for" under the budget rules, says White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag...