Influenza No More?

Nov. 7, 2011   Leave a Comment  

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New vaccine looks promising

Jump in flu outbreaks going around Massachusetts

Feb. 11, 2011   Leave a Comment  

It’s going around. Your neighbors. Your co-workers. You. We’re sick lately. It’s not all in our head. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports that rates of flu and flu-like illnesses have been rising over the past week and are expected to keep jumping. “Rates of flu-like illness continues to rise in Massachusetts this past [...]

Beer pong will give you swine flu

Oct. 19, 2009   1 Comment  

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Though we doubt this will stop a single college student this year

H1N1 vaccine to be earlier, more effective than predicted

Sept. 14, 2009   1 Comment  

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Good news as flu season looms near.

Cyber Clean is a high-tech germ-killing gel

Aug. 21, 2009   1 Comment  

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Your keyboard is trying to kill you. Here’s how fight back.

Emerson alum dies of Swine Flu

July 8, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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David P. Twomey, of Portland, Maine, died June 30.

First human to pig transfer of swine flu in Alberta

May 4, 2009   1 Comment  

A Central Alberta pig farm is under quarantine after its hogs caught the same H1N1 virus that has sickened over a thousand humans worldwide. The news has heightened fears among pig farmers, whose animals already face much prejudice because of the virus’s common name, swine flu.