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
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
Good news as flu season looms near.
Cyber Clean is a high-tech germ-killing gel
Aug. 21, 2009 1 Comment
Your keyboard is trying to kill you. Here’s how fight back.
Emerson alum dies of Swine Flu
July 8, 2009 Leave a Comment
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.
