“In the long run, we’re all dead.”
— John Maynard Keynes
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that a swine flu pandemic is likely imminent. “It’s really all of humanity that’s under threat,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general.
Frightening though…
The three most alarming words in medicine are these: “We don’t know.” They’ve been invoked frequently in connection with an outbreak of swine flu over the last four days.
It began in Mexico, where thousands of people have been sickened and reportedly…
"Bring out your dead!"
Even by the flamboyant headline standards of England’s The Sun newspaper (“Worst mum in the world!”), this one was a real attention-grabber: “Deadliest weapon so far … the plague.”
Black Death — the plague — swept through a terrorist…
