Gallup, Healthways, and America's Health Insurance Plans have teamed up to create a state by state, and congressional district by district well-being index. The index is based on the World Health Organization's definition of health as "not only the absence of infirmity and disease, but also a state of physical, mental, and social well-being." Out of the four congressional districts that make up major parts of Miami-Dade, District 18, represented by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is by far the happiest and
via FlickrThe fine country of Austria reported its first case of swine flu today according to the World Health Organization. The patient, a 28-year-old woman, who recently returned from a trip to Guatemala to visit her parents, is expected to recover. The woman flew from Guatemala to an airport in Mexico City and then to Miami. She stayed in town several days before returning to Vienna with a layover in Dusseldorf, Germany. She first experienced symptoms during her flight and immediately checked
Zero swine flu cases have been found Florida, but that hasn't stopped the Herald from reporting 20 people might, maybe, sorta-kinda be infected. So you can probably blame media -- ourselves included -- for the fact that heathy people have stopped buying bacon and started calling their doctors every 20 minutes. (Riptide's doc rolled her eyes when we asked about it Tuesday.) Oh, the mass freak-outs newsfolk can ignite.
Still, there's no real excuse for this one: A few hours ago, the federal gove
via FlickrIt's probably not time for a mask just yet, but stock up on the hand soap. Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Florida: a 17-year-old teenage girl who attended Hallendale High School in Broward County and an elementary school boy in Lee County. Earlier, we reported that the 20 suspected cases of H1N1 in Miami-Dade all came back negative. The Center for Disease Control also reports that the virus lacks the genes that made previous pandem
Ecuador has its first reported case of confirmed swine flu, and the victim is an 11 year-old boy who had arrived only days earlier from Miami. Meanwhile, Miami-Dade now has 12 confirmed cases. Being such an international hub certainly puts Miami-Dade at risk for swine flu, but it also places us a potential spreader of the virus across the globe.The World Health Organization expects the virus to spread. 7,520 confirmed cases have appeared across the globe, with many more suspected.
Almost two months after the first case was reported, and about a month since anyone cared, the World Health Organization has declared swine flu is officially the first flu pandemic in 41 years!So far, H1N1 has killed 144 people, a small number compared to the millions who died during the last flu pandemic -- or even compared to the 250,000 to 500,000 who die of the regular flu every year. Thirty thousand people have been infected worldwide. As of the Miami-Dade health department's last coun
