Small briefs for a big world
With the recent outbreak of Swine fever / Mexican flu our title Pocket Issue, Pandemics is getting a lot of interest. Recently reviewed in The Evening Standard (London) as “the book to read when you get home”, commenting that “It’s
It’s icy cold, we’re fat from too many mince pies, the kids have just gone back to school and we’ve dispatched the last of the Christmas wrapping paper to the recycling box. Picking up a paper for the first time
Some 170 people are suing a travel company after their luxury holiday turned into a nightmare because of a stomach bug, on the Egyptian Riviera. Guests began to fall ill within days of checking in to the five star hotel
Developments in possible pandemic prevention are currently making the news. This week, drug manufacturer Glaxo Smith-Kline became the first to be granted approval of its pre-pandemic influenza vaccine. The vaccine, called Prepandrix, uses the current H5N1 influenza virus, otherwise known
Numbers of deaths linked to the bacteria Clostridium difficile have soared in England and Wales. Between 2005 and 2006, death certificates mentioning C. difficile, a hospital-based infection, have risen by 72%, to 6,480, according to new figures released by the
The poll has now closed in our healthy eating survey. Although the sample was not huge 85% of you registered as SHEEP – shoppers with healthy, environmentally engaged principles – good news for our collective health, for responsible food production