The global initiative to see polio eradicated by the year 2018 has received a punishing blow. The wild strain of the polio virus seen in Syria can infect someone without their becoming ill, making "silent transmission" a devastating possibility.
Veratech Inc. is on the cutting edge when it comes to searching the web for signs of pandemics. The two-year-old company had a hunch two weeks ago that something was up, a week before the CDC and WHO. How is that possible?
As if the world didn’t have enough to worry about, a hint of another type of trouble comes up. Every year we hear about pandemics, such as the flu. But why would a major company want workers in key world areas to return to Japan by September 2009?
