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Prevention relative to Treatment

Prevention relative to Treatment

Prevention relative to treatment

National public health bodies are co-ordinating their work to prevent the spread of a new swine flu virus, the World Health Organisation says.

Schools, colleges and cinemas in the Indian city of Mumbai have temporarily closed in a bid to limit the spread of the H1N1 virus.

Like many other nations, the Netherlands is battling swine flu on many fronts.

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The result supports what many scientists have long suspected: that modern living has cleaved away large segments of the bacterial population, called the human microbiome, that once lived with and within our ancestors. A better understanding of that deficit could explain and potentially help prevent a host of chronic diseases that are common in Western society, including obesity, asthma, allergies and diabetes.