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Matti Narkia

Climate 'biggest health threat' - BBC NEWS | Science & Environment - 0 views

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    Climate change is "the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century", according to a leading medical journal. The Lancet, together with University College London researchers, has published a report outlining how public health services will need to adapt.
Graham Perrin

Swine flu sweeps globe - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent - 0 views

  • likely to arrive in Britain,
  • likely to arrive in Britain
  • The Chief Medical Officer
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  • said four years ago that a flu epidemic was a "biological inevitability"
  • sufferers will be asked to remain at home
  • discuss raising the threat level
  • no cases have been confirmed outside North and Central America
  • rapid developments around the world
  • A friend or other person will collect stocks of anti-viral drugs
  • delivery to the sufferer's home
  • The NHS has stockpiled
  • Tamiflu – enough to cover half the British population
  • in the US, no one had died and sufferers were experiencing mild symptoms
  • very contagious
  • We could see 15 to 20 per cent of the [UK] population affected
  • The WHO rates Britain as one of the two countries best prepared for an outbreak
Graham Perrin

WHO | Swine influenza - 0 views

  • WHO is coordinating the global response to human cases
  • monitoring the corresponding threat
  • Swine influenza questions and answers
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