Peter Boyles.
As even occasional listeners to KHOW's morning-drive program understand, host Peter Boyles is capable of using virtually any current event to argue in favor of stricter immigration policies -- and the public-health emergency regarding a possible swine flu epidemic in this country provides him with the simplest of transitions. The outbreak is centered in Mexico, and while officials such as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (whom Boyles refers to as "Mrs. Potato Head") ar
Seriously, people? You're getting weird about eating pork now?
I understand that all this talk about the swine flu is freaky. I realize that we're kinda on the edge of a panic now, and that the Centers for Disease Control have just announced that a worldwide pandemic is imminent. I get that we might all be dead in the next week or so.
But isn't that just a damn good reason to eat more pork? More bacon and more pork chops and more pancetta and prosciutto and ribs and pulled pork and t
Take a hit of this, H1N1 sufferers.Does cannabis contain the magic ingredient that will keep swine flu from sweeping the planet? A Colorado Springs company has (yes, you knew it was coming) high hopes.
Cannabis Science, Inc. is announcing today that it's "made key progress with mapping out its initial cannabis drug medicines for FDA clinical trials." Two "distinct parallel paths" for developing "pharmaceutical products for FDA approval" are being sought, with one directed at post-traumat
The virus.Plenty of parents are terrified to vaccinate their children these days, fearing side effects that are worse than what the vaccine was intended to prevent in the first place. Such concerns are magnified in the case of H1N1, aka the swine flu. After all, as noted in Joel Warner's blog this past April, the feds tried to vaccinate the entire U.S. population in advance of a swine-flu outbreak circa 1976 -- but an epidemic never materialized, and 25 people died from likely vaccine com
The virus at work.In a Tuesday blog, the Colorado Department of Health's Margaret Huffman reassured the public that the H1N1/swine-flu vaccine was safe and said concerns about it weren't dominating calls received on the state's CoHELP info line. If so, that flies in the face of a new Associated Press poll in which more than a third of those questioned called the odds of them giving the okay for their kids to be vaccinated at school "unlikely." Their reasons? Worries about side effects, as
A Flickr photoThe Air Force Academy has punched swine flu in the snout.
We've all been told that the H1N1 virus, aka swine flu, is no longer contagious 24 hours after a person's fever has broken. But hold up a minute. A new study overseen by Air Force Academy doctor Catherine Witkop and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine focuses on a large group of cadets who contracted the virus over the summer -- and 29 percent of those with a fever under 100 after a full day, and
The number of swine flu cases reported in Colorado last week fell for the third week in a row, as can be seen on this handy-dandy chart courtesy of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
But a decline in H1N1 didn't stop the department from making a handy-dandy PSA, which attempts to fight the swine flu with sarcasm, raised eyebrows and rhyming words. See above.
Their effort pales in comparison to the PSAs made by the U.S. guv-ment in 1976, when the swine flu-related death
