On AlterNet: h1n1

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "h1n1"

Why Is the CDC Recommending Lysol For H1N1?

Lucinda Marshall, Reclaiming Medusa. January 7, 2010.

Another company in bed with the CDC, should be no surprise, but it's still ugly.

USA Today: Defense Contractors Got H1N1 Vaccine Before Schools and Hospitals Did

Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. December 8, 2009.

Among the corporations on the receiving end were Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why Your Children May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Before They Need It

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. November 4, 2009.

Too much faith in private enterprise has left us open to a flu epidemic.

2,000 Students at U.S. University Report Swine Flu Symptoms

Agence France Presse AlterNet: PEEKSeptember 7, 2009.

The reported outbreak is one of the largest of the virus on a US college campus.

U.S. Boy, 9, Dies of Swine Flu: Authorities

Agence France Presse June 16, 2009.

The death raises the U.S. death toll from the A(H1N1) flu virus to 47.

British Flu Death is First Fatality Outside Americas

Agence France Presse June 14, 2009.

Three days after the WHO declared a global pandemic, the Scottish government announced that an infected patient had died in hospital.

On the Importance of Fighting the H1N1 Hype

Nezua, Media Consortium AlterNet: PEEK. May 7, 2009.

Mexico is suffering most from both the virus and an intensifying conservative backlash.