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Swine flu not likely to become pandemic
The recent swine flu outbreak has caused worldwide anxiety. But there's one thing we don't need to be anxious about: We are not facing a pandemic....
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 05/03/09 by Wendy Orent Los Angeles Times · More from publication -
America's biodefense system has run amok
"Whatever you can say about the Soviet bioweapons scientists," a Bush administration official once told me, "they never killed anyone." We can't...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 08/17/08 by Wendy Orent Los Angeles Times · More from publication -
Pandemic panic
For two years, a deadly strain of chicken flu known as H5N1 has been killing birds in Asia. While slightly more than 100 people are known to have...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 10/23/05 by Wendy Orent Special to The Washington Post · More from publication -
Pursuing passion after three generations
My great-grandmother Yente came to the United States in 1901. She lived in a tenement apartment in East New York, where she cleaned and boiled...
Humanist, 05/01/05 by Wendy Orent · More from publication -
A most dangerous game
chimera 1 a cap : a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail b : an imaginary...
Natural History, 07/01/04 by Wendy Orent · More from publication -
Plague: the Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the world's Most Dangerous Disease
Worse than any combination of natural disasters in the past 2,000 years, plague is the biggest modern killer of humans. It wiped out 40 percent of...
Science News, 06/26/04 by Wendy Orent · More from publication -
Divided we stand - Jerusalem, Israel, is a divided city - Column
A woman describes a conversation she had with an elderly Israeli man who had heroically delivered medical supplies to Jewish doctors during the...
Humanist, 03/01/97 by Wendy Orent · More from publication
