Report: More About Alex Rodriguez’s Steroid Sue Revealed In Roberts’ Book
More allegations about A-Rod’s steroid use revealed in new book. Read more
Mexico Plans Shutdown As World Flu Alert Raised (ap)
AP – Mexico readied a “temporarily closed” sign ? taking the drastic step of ordering a suspension of nonessential federal government and private business activity as it tried to squelch a swine flu epidemic. The World Health Organization ratcheted up an alert and warned that “all of humanity” is threatened. Read more
Gun Attacks In Pakistan’s South Kill 26 (ap)
AP – A slew of gun attacks in a major city in southern Pakistan killed at least 26 people, officials said Thursday, rattling a country already tense over a military offensive against Taliban militants in a district near the capital. Read more
Swine Flu Takes Health Community By Surprise (ap)
AP – For years, scientists have warned a global flu epidemic is imminent, but the world’s attention focused on bird flu ? not swine flu. Read more
Ap Investigation: Mexico’s First Flu Death (ap)
AP – Almost two weeks before tests confirmed she was the first person to die of swine flu, doctors in the southern colonial town of Oaxaca couldn’t figure out what was wrong with a 39-year-old woman who arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and feet blue from oxygen-starved blood. Read more