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...H1N1 virus say it appears to lack key mutations that made past pandemic-causing viruses so deadly), but H1N1 could return next winter in a more lethal form--just as the virus that caused the catastrophic 1918 pandemic did. "This is a situation that can evolve," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim assistant director-general for health, security and the environment. "If it does turn severe, this is something we have to jump...
...infected 1,516 people in 22 countries--including 642 in the U.S., where two people have died from it--and the world was still officially on the brink of a pandemic, the mood had cooled considerably at CDC headquarters in Atlanta. "We're not out of the woods," said Dr. Richard Besser, the CDC's acting director, but "we are seeing a lot of encouraging signs...
...rest of the world deserve praise for their comprehensive response to the new flu virus, H1N1 wasn't a true test of our mettle but a warning shot. "We should look at this as a wake-up call, not one more snooze alarm," says Dr. Irwin Redlener, the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University...
...create a truly international disease-surveillance system. And the threat of a pandemic should remind us that we must fill the gaps in the creaky U.S. health-care system; during an infectious-disease outbreak, everyone will be at risk. "We live in one world, with one health," says Dr. Juan Lubroth, a senior officer at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization...
...HUDS’s customers would also mirror important trends in public health legislation. New York City has adopted calorie-disclosure regulations that force many restaurants to post calorie information wherever the restaurant lists the information that customers use to make their choices. In a New York Times interview, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner, remarked “most people underestimate calorie content by a lot” and added that he considered the rules a potent weapon in the crusade against rising obesity rates. At the other end of the spectrum, individuals...