10/27/09 - Buyer beware - there’s no cure for H1N1 despite what scammers say
Con artists playing on the fears of the flu pandemic have the federal government putting out a list of 139 fraudulent products boasting cures or treatments for the H1N1 flu. That's not unusual. Mike Simonson reports that the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic had lots of quack remedies...
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10/16/09 - First responders administered H1N1 flu vaccine
Some Wisconsin nurses, firefighters and emergency response personnel are starting to get a whiff of the H1N1 flu vaccine. Chuck Quirmbach reports...
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10/08/09 - H1N1 closes school in Wisconsin Dells
Two thirds of the counties in Wisconsin are reporting elevated flu activity. State health officials say nearly all of that is H1N1, which shut down 5 schools in the Wisconsin Dells area. Shamane Mills reports…
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09/25/09 - Pandemic Flu: 1918 and Now- Part 5
The state's largest outbreak of the H-1-N-1 virus last spring and summer was in Milwaukee. Several people died. About two-thousand got sick. Some schools shut down for days. As our series on H1N1 concludes, Chuck Quirmbach has details on how the city hopes to PREVENT a major outbreak this fall…
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09/24/09 - Pandemic Flu: 1918 and Now - Part 4
State health officials say the H1N1 virus is acting more like seasonal flu this fall. However, state, county, and local reps have been planning for the worst if the virus should mutate. Danielle Kaeding reports in our fourth installment about pandemic planning and those preparing in La Crosse County…
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09/23/09 - Pandemic Flu: 1918 and Now- Part 3
More than 84-hundred people died in Wisconsin from the 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak. But the state's quick response might have kept things from getting worse. Today in our series on the 1918 flu, and this year's H1N1 outbreak, Michael Leland looks at the state's response then, and possible lessons for today…
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09/23/09 - Dept of Health Services talks tactics for battling H1N1
As part of an ongoing in-depth look at the latest H1N1 outbreak, Terry Bell talks to Stephanie Marquis - a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services - about how best to deal with infection and the availability of vaccines…
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09/22/09 - Pandemic Flu: 1918 and Now - Part 2
The 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak killed at least 500,000 people in the United States. Health officials expect the H1N1 outbreak this flu season to be serious, but not nearly as deadly. This virus is different from the Spanish flu of 1918, and so is the means to contain it. Shamane Mills has today's segment of our series on the H1N1 virus...
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09/21/09 - Pandemic Flu: 1918 and Now - Part 1
Today's H1N1 flu is highly contagious. It's considered a worldwide pandemic. But it is mild compared to the Spanish Flu Pandemic which killed up to 50 million people in 1918 and 1919. Wisconsin didn't escape the tragedy. We begin our series on "Pandemic Flu: 1918 and now". Mike Simonson has our first report from Superior...
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09/16/09 - Flu hits UW-Superior
The first cases of what are suspected to be the H1N1 flu have been reported at Wisconsin's northern-most campus this week. Mike Simonson reports from Superior...
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09/11/09 - Flu isolation available at some UW campuses
Two campuses in the UW System are making an extra effort to keep sick students isolated as a precaution against spread of the h1n1 flu. Shamane Mills reports...
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