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Thursday, 7 May 2009
Scientists tout swine flu breakthrough
This what I found about the swine flu,the vaccine could be founded.
Therefore,get the desease faster and you won't have to take the exams...:))))
Mexico relaxed strict controls aimed at containing swine flu Wednesday after a five-day lockdown, as officials heralded a scientific breakthrough towards finding a vaccine for the virus.
Offices and restaurants in Mexico -- the epicentre of the virus -- reopened despite officials conceding that the death toll had now risen from 29 to 42.
Meanwhile the number of cases in the US showed a sharp rise, Sweden became the latest country to confirm infection and China claimed the epidemic was worsening.
Canada offered hope for efforts to contain the outbreak, announcing that its scientists have carried out the first complete genetic sequencing of swine flu, referred to as the A(H1N1) virus by the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO).
Speaking after neighbouring United States confirmed a second fatality from the virus, Canadian Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq told a press conference in Ottawa that knowledge of the virus had "taken a great step forward."
In Mexico, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said 42 people had been killed by the outbreak and that more than half the victims were between 20 and 29 years old -- an age group not normally badly affected by other flu bugs.
Cordova also said the number of confirmed infections in Mexico from the virus had risen from 913 to 1,070. The WHO says more than 1,500 people around the world have caught swine flu including some who have never been to Mexico.
Mexican authorities still pressed ahead with the reopening of offices and restaurants. High schools and universities are set to open on Thursday, to be followed by primary schools and kindergartens next Monday.
The emergence of the virus, a new strain that has combined human, swine and bird influenza, set off fears of a worldwide pandemic, even though the death toll has been relatively low and in line with any "normal" flu bug.
Countries have imposed a range of measures to prevent a dangerous and massively deadly global outbreak, hitting the tourism and travel industries and hurting Mexico's economy which was already weakened by the financial crisis.
Some of the measures have been denounced as an over-reaction and the WHO said it was asking countries that took "significantly different" measures to combat swine flu, such as restricting international travel, to justify their actions.
Meanwhile the number of confirmed US cases of swine flu surged by 60 percent Wednesday to 642 from 403, with infections reported in three more states and the death toll now at two.
New states reporting infections were Hawaii and Washington, which confirmed three cases each, and Oklahoma, with one case, according to a daily tally compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
With 41 states now reporting confirmed cases of the disease, the CDC website also upped the US death toll to add the first death of a US citizen from swine flu. The victim was a woman in her thirties "with chronic underlying health conditions" who died in a Texas hospital on Monday.
Although the worst initial fears about the deadliness of the outbreak have not been realized, Mexican officials say the economic cost has been steep and estimate it has cost the country 2.3 billion dollars (1.7 billion euros).
While only China -- the origin of the 2003 SARS epidemic -- and a handful of Latin American countries cut travel ties with Mexico, several airlines, tour companies and cruise lines suspended trips to the country.
"Chinese medical experts believe the global epidemic situation is still worsening and China has to give continued high attention," Vice Health Minister Zhang Mao was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency.
Relations between Mexico and China were badly strained when 70 Mexicans were placed under quarantine in China after one Mexican in Hong Kong was confirmed to have been infected. They were eventually flown home on Tuesday.
A group of Chinese nationals who had been stranded in Mexico returned home on Wednesday before being immediately quarantined.
All 119 passengers and crew on a government-chartered Boeing 777 were isolated after arriving at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Champions League!
OH...disappointed match for Arsenal....Hope next season though......
Anyway,MUFC played so good in this match.
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Evaluation: "firewheel" rubber band machine-gun
The new product has been developed in Australia.This product is for entertainment,and a useful way to solve disspointness.This product is just a simple gun but a little bit more creative.IT's ammo is made by rubber bands.It sounds simple but not.The design for the product is very creative.It can shoot many rubber bands at the same time or could be shooted one by one rubber band.And the company guaranteedthe safe of the rubber band,that this product didn't create a lot of damages.
But it's quite simple as other gun toys.Therefore,for this product there are too many competitors,and this is the new product.And there is no guarantee about the product's quality.
Also it's useful and fun in the nice weather.But if it's rainy,snowy or especially windy,so the rubber band won't work properly because the rubber band is too light.So that,it can be blowed and become boring.And the demand for this product is just under 16 I think,for juniors and children only.
The strength of this product is also the good design with many colour choices.So it will satisfy the consumers' taste.
"The design of the Firewheel was developed over quite a number of years through 3 distinct stages of prototyping (see Photo)
The Firewheel is manufactured from good quality materials which will tolerate quite a bit of misuse and abuse before failure.
The typical thickness of the mouldings is 3 mm, which you will find is quite a bit thicker than most other similar products, and due to its weight and styling, it feels like a real gun
The injection moulding tooling is made from high quality nitride-hardened steel, to maintain the accuracy of the components, and a high level of quality control is required during the assembly of the components, to achieve the result required.
The robustness and quality control, enable us to offer a genuine lifetime guarantee against faulty materials or workmanship. If it breaks, and you believe it was not your fault, then we will either repair or replace it."
*Strengths:
- Good design
- Totally safe
- Creative in type of shooting in this product
- Just for young age group
- Not guarantee the quality.
- Just can be useful in the good weather
This is the video of the product: