If you take your children trick-or-treating Saturday night, you might want to pay close attention to who is handing out the candy. If they're hacking or sneezing, you might want to pass on that bite-size Snickers. A story on WAVE-TV...
Just called my doctor's office to ask about a swine flu shot. No go. "We don't have it, and we won't be having it," the receptionist told me. "We tried to get it and couldn't." So, what next? If you...
A Central Texas children's hospital is so swamped with suspected flu cases that they're using tents as triage stations, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Dell Children's Medical Center is so overloaded that they're suffering from staff shortages, the report says. Hospital...
And how do I know this, you ask? Because Carol, the office manager, just handed me a brand-new dispenser of Instant Hand Sanitizer, which, according to the promo sticker, "Leaves Hands Feeling Soft & Refreshed (with Moisturizers & Vitamin E)."...
According to the World Health Organization, which raised the alert level for influenza A (H1N1) to its highest warning (Phase 6), it's officially the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. Don't panic. The story points out that WHO spokesman...
Not likely, says Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy, who writes Cowtown's cancelled Mayfest celebraton was a victim of overzealous bureaucracy. The popular annual kid-centric festival had the bad luck to be scheduled just at the height of flu fear...
This was inevitable: I have an e-mail from university-professor experts offering tips on How To Talk To You Kids About The Flu. Gosh, it was already hard telling them that Skippy went to live on a farm where he could...
It's another happy holiday for the kids in my neighborhood, where the flu scare has given the entire district an unscheduled vacation. Whether you think this is all hysterical overreaction or sensible precaution is entirely up to you. Interestingly, it...
Sad indeed. Hearts go out to the family of the young Mexican boy -- a month or so shy of his second birthday -- who was visiting family in Brownsville when he became ill. He died in Houston. As I...
The Dallas County health department has sent out a notice to schools and day care centers in the area. In addition, school administrators have been told to keep daily records of absences due to flu-like illnesses and to forward that...
From Staff Writer Jeffrey Weiss: Dallas has always worried that it was only known abroad for its football team, the TV show, and the Kennedy Assassination. Worry no more: Over the weekend, South Korea's Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Staff Writer Jeffrey Weiss, who has been covering the swine flu outbreak, reports that some bloggers (surprise!) are getting a mite hysterical: The idiot factor is already high about the swine flu outbreak. Dr. John Carlo, the Dallas County health...
Before you run yodeling through the streets to warn of the impending plague, think hard about whether you knew a single person who contracted (much less died of) SARS or bird flu. But it's sure shivery fun to get all...
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