All Blog Posts Tagged 'H1N1' (5)

H1N1: Scarier Than Cancer and Obesity.

To follow up the discussion I started in the Gateway ProClean group last week over hand washing habits, it looks like recent numbers have even indicated that flu cases reported in November 2009 were actually lower than November of last year. Apparently, large scale efforts to raise awareness of proper hygiene have paid off. This elevated sensitivity paired with the H1N1 vaccination roll-out has caused less sick days in the workforce. Not all was good news. There was a 1.7% to 5.4% one-month… Continue

Added by Meghan Reed on January 5, 2010 at 6:13am — 3 Comments

Gearing up for flu season

You've probably been reading a lot more about H1N1 lately, as the flu season approaches.

Last week, USA Today's opinion blog featured a letter from a public health expert preaching good hygiene as the key to prevention.

And a recent Wall Street Journal blog… Continue

Added by Dani on October 5, 2009 at 6:36am — 5 Comments

Back to School Time Already? Or does it just appear that way?

Well, probably not.

Usually, at this time of year, parents are rejoicing and the kids are wondering how the summer passed by so quickly. You've probably loaded up on backpacks, notebooks and a whole new wardrobe for the kids, glad to send them off to learn something more than X Box skills.

While most of the country goes back to school right after Labor Day, down here in Florida the kids went back this week with most returning to classes this past Tuesday. The private… Continue

Added by Steve Paterson on August 29, 2009 at 7:16pm — 16 Comments

On The Pillars Of This Earth Lies A World Without End

The ‘literati’ amongst you will instantly recognize that I shamelessly ripped off the title of this blog post from two truly epic novels by renowned author Ken Follett and if you’ve read them both, by the time you are finished reading this, you will completely understand why I chose the title I did.

What is ironic to me is that gathering the information and material for this posting was actually easier than figuring out what to title it.

If you are not willing to set aside the… Continue

Added by Steve Paterson on August 20, 2009 at 10:44pm — 9 Comments

Who's afraid of the big bad swine?

What are restaurants doing to take precautions against spreading the swine flu, now known as the H1N1 virus?

According to an article in QSR Magazine, managers for the National Restaurant Association's annual show in Chicago acknowledged the outbreak by placing about 140 hand-sanitizing stations on the show floor, as well as an information center, where visitors could ask questions about the… Continue

Added by Dani on May 20, 2009 at 7:34am — No Comments