Several weeks ago, on Halloween evening, an eerie event interrupted the basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs, the home team, and the Sacramento Kings. A bat, the flying kind, fluttered about just above the playing floor, probably brought into the arena by a fan, as a (not-so-funny) Halloween prank.
 
A Spurs player, Manu Ginobili, [...]

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The more you know about H1N1 (swine) influenza the better you can protect your children from the disease and treat them effectively should they become ill. 

Even the experts do not have all the answers. This is a new virus, one never seen before. Ongoing worldwide surveillance indicates that H1N1 is presently (mid September) less [...]

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