Further thoughts on swine flu immunization.

Novel "swine-origin" A/H1N1 influenza in people: thoughts from a swine flu virologist.

Further Thoughts on Precision

Background: There has been much discussion amongst automated software defect prediction researchers regarding use of the precision and false positive rate classifier performance metrics. Aim: To demonstrate and explain why failing to report precision when using data with highly imbalanced class distributions may provide an overly optimistic view of classifier performance. Method: Well documente...

Swine origin influenza (swine flu).

Swine origin influenza was first recognized in the border area of Mexico and United States in April 2009 and during a short span of two months became the first pandemic. The currently circulating strain of swine origin influenza virus of the H1N1 strain has undergone triple reassortment and contains genes from the avian, swine and human viruses. It is transmitted by droplets or fomites. Incubat...

swine flu and industrial hygiene

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Swine flu fever

Whenever a public health official utters the word ‘pandemic’ in a deliberately calm tone of voice, it’s understandable that many people decide that it’s time to panic. The surprise, in the big flu panic/ pandemic of 2009, is not how quickly we panicked, but how quickly the news media declared that we were overreacting. Health officials raised the alarm on the last Sunday in April, and already t...