By: Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence The reason I ask myself this question is because my CTO sent me a link to an article from the New Scientist Online News that addresses this topic. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada Business Continuity Plan, it is appropriate to expect an absenteeism rate of
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By: Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence News briefs about Influenza A (H1N1) always show people in public places wearing face masks. Some people wear them correctly but many individuals have the mask covering only their mouth. If you choose to wear a mask, how effective is it, especially if not worn properly ? With
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By: Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence Swine raising his a very touchy subject, especially these days. We tend to imagine worst case scenarios: too many animals per pen, odor and fly problems, a possible link to diseases and even public disagreement over the ethics of pig raising. In the web article called “Critics question
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By: Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence At the moment we are being inundated with information about the H1N1 flu – some of this information is valuable and informative while some of it is less so… I came across three articles that are valuable, informative and worth reading. The first one is entitled “Germ Sleuths
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From Google.org….. Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in a state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems. Read more at: http://www.google.org/flutrends/ and http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html How does this work? Each week, millions of users around the
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