By Jason Koebler January 11, 2012 The days of medical masks at airports and widespread panic may be coming backâ€"that's because at least 12 humans are believed to have been infected with a new strain of swine flu that's not covered by this season's vaccine. The new swine flu strain, H3N2v, has shown at least some potential for human-to-human transmission in those 12 individuals, which makes it especially dangerous. Between 2009 and mid-2010, more than 17000 people died worldwide from the highly

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A look at Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners
Caldecott and Newbery committees always cast wide nets, but this year there is tangible proof. The medal-winning books, announced in early January, are not well-publicized blockbusters by already decorated illustrators...

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During the three months from October 1918 to January 1919 more than 20 million people died of Spanish flu throughout the world. The author of this history sets out to present the disease in terms of human experience, based on the memories of more than 1700 survivors.

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In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to the U.S. Public Health Service, his was the lone voice of alarm about the potential spread of this virulent new strain of a particularly deadly disease. With hundreds of thousands of American servicemen crisscrossing the nation through military training camps and then to Europe to fight in World War I, an influenza pandemic wasn't just a possibility, but a certainty. It swept through congested cities and rural communities alike, killing its victims in days, sometimes in hours. No one had ever seen anything like the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. Before the deadly disease ran its course in 1919, more American soldiers died from the flu than in combat, more than one-fifth of the world's population was infected, and as many as 100 million people worldwide died from the disease that caused the most devastating pandemic in history.

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