In an eerie echo of NY's planned neglect of the Bronx, overworked Illinois firefighters had staged a massive "blue flu" sickout and let large sections of the city burn to the ground.
Without the Web, would there have been an outbreak of the "election flu," creating massive numbers of folks to stay home and become glued to their TV?
The wholesale retailer said last week that, despite rising prices on chicken resulting from shortages linked to a massive outbreak of bird flu, the cost of its popular rotisserie chicken would remain at $4.99.
Mr Rogers is particularly concerned about the threat of avian flu posed by massive chicken farms because of their sheer size and concentration of birds.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) is urging cities and states to start planning a massive vaccination campaign against swine flu even though a vaccine isn't available yet.
Eventually, the detection of H1N1 in 1978 and again in 2009, which is similar to the Spanish flu, led to massive vaccination campaigns, especially in the US.
The results call into question the wisdom of buying massive stockpiles of the drug to prepare for flu pandemics.
The specter of a pandemic strain that's resistant to oseltamivir also known as Tamiflu worries flu experts because it could render countries' massive stockpiles of the drug useless.
Several news reports about the swine flu outbreak have pointed a finger at a massive pig farm in Veracruz, Mexico, as the potential source of the first transmission to humans.
The specter of a pandemic caused by the so-called swine flu shocked scientists and health officials worldwide and a massive investment was made in purchasing antivirals and developing a vaccine in record time.
