As Carolina Lucas points out in today's Guardian, the last time
swine flu broke out in 1988, the finger was pointed to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) as one of the culprits - close quarters and cramped conditions with human handlers moving in and among the animals are all ready ways for contagion to spread.
When
the swine flu broke out earlier this year, the FDA issued the Emergency Use Authorization which approved two tests developed by other companies for immediate use to detect the H1N1 strain.
Not exact matches
Since news of
swine flu in the United States first
broke last week, Science reporters have been keeping tabs on the latest developments.
You can find our full coverage of
swine flu — including
breaking news and analysis of the latest developments — here.
You can find our full coverage of
swine flu — including
breaking news on the latest developments — here.
When President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology spread panic in August 2009 about the purported dangers of a
swine flu epidemic
breaking out later that year, Alex Newman wrote for The New American at that time: «The co-chair of Obama's advisory council that issued the report, John Holdren, actually co-authored a book titled Ecoscience calling for forced abortions, mass sterilization, and a «planetary regime» with the power to enforce the sick notions.