To inoculate our economy against the global economic virus, the Federal Reserve should slash short-term interest rates immediately.
The World Health Organization declared the H1N1 virus a global pandemic on June 11.
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But Napolitano and Sebelius stressed that would be a reflection of the global spread of the virus, not necessarily its severity.
The World Health Organization declared the virus a global pandemic June 11.
Skittish health officials in Saudi Arabia have worked hard to quell fears that the pilgrimage -- the biggest yearly congregation of people in the world -- will contribute to the global spread of the virus, inviting international health experts to make recommendations and screening pilgrims as they arrive.
The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.
"The last two years were by far the most challenging in over 30 years, " Pope says, citing global recessionary conditions, fears about the H1N1 virus, the closure of some key export markets, spiking grain prices and extended low hog prices tied to oversupply.
Scientists think HIV probably crossed into humans as far back as the early 1900s, but it wasn't until air travel became common that the virus spread, and AIDS became a global epidemic in the 1980s.
Global monitoring has shown an earlier than expected rise in virus activity across Europe and Japan.
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AIDS, for example, the global epidemic is caused by what was originally a chimpanzee virus.
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Four such different (novel) virus subtypes have appeared in humans since the global epidemic (pandemic) of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people.
At this point the virus primarily threatens confidence, a vital ingredient for the global credit markets to return to normalcy, and by extension for the global economy to recover.
Limiting travel and imposing travel restrictions would have very little effect on stopping the virus from spreading, but would be highly disruptive to the global community.
Twenty years after the global outbreak of AIDS, no one has developed an effective vaccine against the HIV virus, a far more cunning foe than polio, smallpox or measles.
Health experts have given kudos to Beijing for being forthcoming with information, sharing the H7N9 virus' gene sequencing and samples with the World Health Organization's global research centers and providing timely updates of new infections and deaths.
The World Health Organization declared the virus, also known as the novel influenza A(H1N1), a global pandemic June 11.
"A big proportion of the infections we saw were coming from people who had actually gone out searching for the virus because they wanted to see Anna Kournikova, " says David Perry, global director of education for Trend Micro.
The strain raised fears of a global flu pandemic, but was contained after a mass slaughter of chickens thought to be carrying the virus.
This outbreak, on top of another death last month in Saudi Arabia from a previously unknown virus, a cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has set global health agencies on edge.
"In this age of global travel, where people move around in airplanes so quickly, there is no region to which this virus could not spread, " said Fukuda, assistant director-general of the WHO.
If the bird flu virus were to be mutating into a form more easily transmissible among humans, the risk of a global pandemic would greatly increase.
Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, doctors in Los Angeles first reported cases of what turned out to be the global catastrophe we now know as AIDS. Since then, 55 million people have been infected with the AIDS virus, and it kills around 8, 000 people a day.
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