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July 10 (Bloomberg) -- An unexpected characteristic has emerged among many swine flu victims who become severely ill: They are fat. Doctors tracking the pandemic say they see a pattern in hospital reports from Glasgow to Melbourne and from Santiago to New York. People infected with the bug who have a body mass index greater than 40, deemed morbidly obese, suffer respiratory complications that ...
Firefighters are battling a four-alarm fire in St. Johnsbury that has displaced at least nine families.
THE managing director of at least one business is not happy with employees being given the right to self-diagnose swine flu. ‘No thought has been given to the consequences which could lead to a vast amount of people deciding to take time off assuming they have “swine flu”.
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- DWS Investment GmbH, Germany’s biggest mutual fund manager, is shunning Treasuries and buying bunds in a bet that President Barack Obama ’s record fundraising makes owning U.S. government debt too risky.
Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson are the faces tourists expect to see carved in granite on Mount Rushmore. On Wednesday, if for only an hour or so, they saw a fifth, Barack Obama.
Health officials announced Thursday the first death of a Monterey County resident from swine flu as federal officials pushed for a vaccine against the virus.
South Korea said Friday it had identified and blocked five IP addresses used to distribute computer viruses that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea.
An Allerdale council worker will be talking about the council’s work tackling eyesore buildings at a national regeneration conference.
HARDING TWP. -- The Harding Township School is raising funds to build a well for a school in Africa.
South Korea said it had identified and blocked five IP addresses used to distribute computer viruses that caused a wave of website outages in the US and South Korea.
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