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Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light

ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into...

Universal Flu Vaccine Coming Soon? Researchers Are Getting Close

Every year, the flu shot is something of a gamble. Scientists have to figure out what the most active strains are, then create a vaccine around them. Sometimes, there are shortages and delays in shipping and manufacturing, which can keep people from getting vaccinated. But a new study gives us hope that those...

Trish Keenan, Lead Singer of Broadcast, Dead at 42: A Musical Tribute [VIDEOS]

Trish Keenan, who was the lead singer of the electronic-music band Broadcast, has died from complications related to pneumonia. She was 42. Broadcast formed in the mid-'90s in England. The group's first album, "The Noise Made by People," was released in 2000; the group followed up with 2003's "Ha-Ha Sound" and 2005's...

Opinion: Autism Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg

"A deliberate fraud." That's what the British Medical Journal, one of the world's most prestigious periodicals, has written of the study that kicked off the current anti-vaccine movement. It's "clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare," it said in a heavily documented...

Is Swine Flu Poised for a British Invasion of the US?

Here it comes again. An outbreak of H1N1 flu has hospitalized 302 people in England and accounted for 14 deaths in recent weeks, the Guardian reported. Making matters worse, many British citizens, including health workers, have yet to receive flu shots this year after the frenzy of attention paid to H1N1 subsided at the...

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06/03/12 Condition of Boy Confirmed with Bird Flu in Hong Kong... Source: Saudi Press Agency Hong Kong's health authority said on Sunday that the two-year-old boy confirmed with Influenza A (H5N1) on Saturday is currently receiving isolated treatment at Princess Margaret Hospital and his condition remained serious.
06/03/12 Human bird-flu case in a Hong Kong boy confirmed Source: Taipei Times Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the territory reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy.
06/03/12 46,000 hens culled in country this year; Committee... Source: News from Bangladesh Bird flu was detected at 21 out of 85 big poultry farms in the country this year and over 46,000 hens were culled till May 31.
06/03/12 Ceremony honors victims of flu pandemic Source: Sentinel and Enterprise - Fitchburg MA Members of the Leominster community dedicated headstones Saturday to mark two mass graves for the victims of the flu pandemic that took nearly 200 lives in the city between Sept. 20 1918 and April 1 1919.
06/03/12 Poultry linked to cases of salmonella Source: The Monterey County Herald - Monterey CA Those cute mail-order chicks that wind up in children's Easter baskets and backyard farms have been linked to more than 300 cases of salmonella in the U.S. â mostly in youngsters â since 2004.

Background on influenza

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals.

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