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William Fernando Martinez/The Associated Press A child wears a mask as a precaution against swine flu at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia. (June 11, 2009) Immunization bid rumoured on websites Joanna Smith Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA–Public health officials are alarmed at tales that people are considering throwing "swine flu parties," hoping to catch the potentially deadly virus. The British media have been circulating stories that some people with H1N1 influenza are inviting friends over to spread their illness, and that parents are holding swine flu parties to immunize their children against the virus now before it gets worse in wintertime. "That's a very dangerous practice," said Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer. "The problem is that while it may be true that for the majority it is a mild disease, you... [read full story]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and exiled Chinese dissidents urged U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to intervene with China's government on behalf of Jiang Tianyong, a rights activist who tried to see Obama while he...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Police say an unfounded report of a hostage situation in a building near the Missouri governor's mansion was caused by someone calling an elevator phone to warn of a hostage-taking.
Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) announced today that it had filed an amendment to its Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 and an amendment to its Transaction Statement on Schedule 13e-3 expanding,...
There is a centrality of the traditional family to the American dream of opportunity and a centrality of family breakdown to poverty At a time when our country is sick, it shouldn't surprise that one our sickest places is our...
