Swine Flu, Small Farms, and the Women’s Institute

Here we go again.  The situation seems to have been dragging on for weeks, so it’s hard to remember that a week ago swine flu had barely been heard of. …

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Swine Flu Guanajuato Update

Here’s a link to Junkfood Science’s latest sane piece.  The one thing I would quarrel with–again–is her depiction of Mexico as mired in dire poverty and with a hopelessly deficient…

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Flu and the Mexican Rural Community

Small rural communities in Mexico are getting world attention as the press points to La Gloria in Veracruz as a possible origin for the new strain of swine flu.  The…

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