[via Bruce Schneier]

The world still lingers just shy of a full-out pandemic, according to World Health Organization officials. While confirmed cases of a new influenza strain and related hospitalizations in the United States continue to rise, no new deaths have been reported. – Worldwide flu cases top 700 at USAToday.com That number is nowhere near the number [...]

Leave it to Canadian reporting to sum up the entirety of an exasperating issue fraught with futile appeals to logic in a single expository sentence: In 1976, then U.S. president Gerald Ford ordered a national vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak of swine flu at a military base in New Jersey. In the end, [...]