Stephanie Young's List: Swine Flu Scare

• For every ten thousand students in Alabama, the survey found 119 new suspected flu cases last week.

• CDC official downplays risk from swine flu vaccine

    A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with the vaccine. 
• CDC reports swine flu numbers

    Health officials say swine flu activity is picking up and that there is more evidence the virus is unusually dangerous to young people
• Sebelius warns kids have no immunity to swine flu

    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is urging parents to get their kids vaccinated against the swine flu, calling it a "younger person's flu." 

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• Swine flu scare provides real-time preparedness training
• Although the outbreaks have seemingly subsided from fears of a full-blown pandemic, the relatively brief scare may have served as a wake-up call for many facilities and a pandemic planning practice round for many others.

• For now, those who make it their business to promote hand-washing — to prevent flus, colds, food poisoning, infectious diarrhea, skin infections and other hand-borne illnesses — are hopeful but doubtful.

• opportunity to gauge both the public's ignorance and its expertise about an emerging health threat in real time.