May 11, 2009

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Health

TRACING THE OUTBREAK THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

At first it was just a 'strange' cluster of illnesses in a small Mexican town. Then suddenly swine flu was everywhere. By MICHAEL FRISCOLANTI, CHARLIE GILLIS16 min

MAIL BAG

‘A memo to Michael Ignatieff: using words like “definitional” will lose you the election’

SCIENTIST DAVID KEITH’S big idea (“Plan B for global warming,” Environment, April 27) is to mimic the effect of volcanic eruptions like the 18 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide spewed forth by Mount Pinatubo in 1991. Isn’t that like fighting global warming by generating more pollution?

INTERVIEW

'Actual flu cases, a new strain, seems to validate our fears, not just of illness or foreigners, but of social disruption’

EPIDEMIOLOGIST PHILIP ALCABES TALKS WITH KATE FILLION ABOUT SWINE FLU, FEAR, AND THE FOLLY OF TOO MUCH PREPAREDNESS

7 DAYS

B.C. PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER CAUGHT SPEEDING, PITT DOES THE FALLS, SARKOZY PIMPS HIS RIDE

Sarah Obama, the 87-year-old step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, suddenly found herself at the centre of a religious tug-of-war last week in her native Kenya. Obama, a Muslim, accepted an invitation to attend a Seventh Day Adventist Church event, allegedy as an honorary guest.