swine flu Archive

  • frog

    Samoan community shows leadership on swine flu - by frog



    Samoan community leader and boxing promoter Teleiai Edwin Puni’s decision to postpone next Tuesday’s planned boxing show to minimise the spread of swine flu is a welcome and responsible move. The Fight for Unity tournament organised by Event Polynesia Boxing at the Otara Recreation Centre – an international sports event originally planned for July 14 [...] read more
    July 9, 2009 1:14 pm - 4 Comments
  • frog

    What’s the real cost of intensive pig farming - by frog



    Not only does intensive pig farming look suspiciously like pig torture it looks like it could be the source of swine flu! What gets me is that the pig lobby argues that we need intensive farming so we have cheap pork but im guessin they don’t factor in the environmental and health costs – how [...] read more
    May 20, 2009 10:28 am - 8 Comments
  • Kevin Hague

    What to do about Swine flu - by Kevin Hague



    A few years ago and the country was in the grip of Bird Flu Fever, so to speak. The Health sector was dusting off the plans from 1918 and sales of Geoffrey Rice’s excellent account of that earlier pandemic soared. It seemed like every organisation and business in the country was developing its own pandemic [...] read more
    May 1, 2009 12:08 pm - 78 Comments