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DHS – Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group Holds Inaugural Stakeholder Forum in New Orleans
The Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group held the first of five planned stakeholder forums today...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aT_13nVYV4c8&pos=9
Ukraine Nurses, Patients Make Masks as Flu Spreads (Update1)
By Daryna Krasnolutska, Halia Pavliva and Kateryna Choursina
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) — Nurses and patients at the town...
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20091105/NEWS01/911050318/1002/NEWS01/Kellogg-halts-cereal-box-claim
Kellogg halts cereal box claim
The health claims hit the shelves in May, one month after the World Health Organization proclaimed an H1N1...
U.N. evacuates foreign staff from Afghanistan
Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:52am EST
By Jonathon Burch and Yara BayoumKABUL (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday it would evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan for several weeks...
Link: http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/03/norway_to_offer_swine_flu_drugs_over_the_counter/
Boston.com, 11/3/09: Norway is allowing over-the-counter sales of flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza in response to the rapid spread...