Chuck Simmins | June 30, 2009 |
Influenza, including novel H1N1 or swine flu, is an illness that affects the entire body. It renders the patient ill for more than a week and even when mild can produce dehydration, high fevers and respiratory distress.
Chuck Simmins | June 24, 2009 |
The amounts owed is in contention. What is certain is that Subway took the franchise back, and sold it as a remarkably generous price to the local Subway developers, who then resold it at nearly 400% of what they paid for it.
Leon Batie is now on active duty with the Army. He has to make a living somehow. The loans he took out to begin his business still must be paid.
Chuck Simmins | June 19, 2009 |
Photos: The program at VBC recently held its one-year anniversary, a result of dedicated weekly staff meetings held each Tuesday and weekly interactive Scouting events. As scouting grows, local Iraqi troop leaders continue to take control over the currently American-led program. Each Saturday service members, translators, and Iraqi troop leaders come together to play with and mentor the children of French Village.
Chuck Simmins | June 14, 2009 |
The just completed election for President in Iran involved four candidates. Over 200 originally applied to run, but the vetting process by the mad mullahs reduced that number to four. These were the theologically and politically acceptable candidates. The differences in policy and program were minute and the “moderate” candidate was no friend of the United States or freedom by any definition of the words.
Chuck Simmins | June 11, 2009 |
The WHO is set to announce officially that novel H1N1 or swine flu has reached official pandemic status. That is a phase six. This is the first influenza pandemic since the Hong Kong flu of 1968.
Chuck Simmins | June 10, 2009 |
Public health agencies in the United States, at all levels from city to national, have always needs more funding. Since the defeat of the major killing diseases in this country, such as polio, measles and yellow fever, there hasn’t been as much “public health” work to do.
We are in the seventh week of an outbreak of a new, novel type of influenza. Most of us call it the swine flu. The government calls it novel H1N1. As of June 8, there were over 15,000 confirmed cases in the United States and 27 deaths.
Chuck Simmins | June 9, 2009 |
The Associated Press is reporting that the World Health Organization will most likely declare the swine flu / novel H1N1 outbreak a pandemic, alert level six, tomorrow. This will be about eight weeks into the outbreak, with WHO reporting cases in 73 nations.
Chuck Simmins | June 5, 2009 |
WHO has gone to reporting cases counts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. That is probably because the U.S. is doing so and half the cases of swine flu or novel H1N1 are in the U.S.
As of this morning, WHO reports that 69 nations have reported cases, for a total of 21,940. 125 deaths have been reported.
Chuck Simmins | May 29, 2009 |
Whatever the name, swine flu, H1N1 or novel H1N1, the illness that has been spreading globally is cause for concern and preparation. Novel H1N1, the name used by the United States Centers for Disease Control, has appeared in over forty nations to date and new cases by the hundreds are being discovered daily.
Chuck Simmins | May 25, 2009 |
She passed up on the Ivy leagues to go to the Air Force Academy. She qualified for state in five different sports in high school, was an all-American in college, a qualified pilot.
Chuck Simmins | May 25, 2009 |
Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell, 20, of Bel Air, Md., died Feb. 7 [2007] while supporting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq
Chuck Simmins | May 23, 2009 |
Who is going to ask the correct questions about the swine flu / novel H1N1 epidemic? The old media doesn’t seem to be.
Chuck Simmins | May 19, 2009 |
The World Health Organization is the primary source for case information for nations outside of North America. It issues its report daily at 6 am GMT, which a couple of hours after midnight on the East Coast of the U.S.
