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  Father, I know that all my lifeIs portioned out for me,And the changes that are sure to comeI do not fear to see;I ask Thee for a present mind,Intent on pleasing Thee....

Mark your calendars: Wednesday, January 28th at 2 PM And this webcast on Pandemic Influenza is somewhat of a mystery. I am sure that it will be interesting and timely. Previous PlanFirst Webcasts are located at the PandemicFlu.gov/AvianFlu.gov website located here as well...

I don’t jump on bandwagons blindly. But a “tweet” found me today and I promised that I would consider it’s content and act if I agreed that we should at least consider what this man had to say. I am n...

And strangely, a difficult one to write too. Aggressively seeking a following in order to spread a message across social media is a new enterprise for me...

I have long been a fan of the American Public Health Association. Their Get Ready Campaign I have linked to and pointed out to others from time to time. They truly do have some wonderful information on their website...

I have known too few true peacemakers in my life. Why is this such a rare find when we all value peace so highly? It is true that in order to be peacemakers we must first turn away from all evil. Is this what makes true peace such a rare prize? We enjoy our evil ways, we have since the garden...

  Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism December 2008   Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the sixth annual Ready or Not? Prot...

Check it out: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ In the Spotlight Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule now available (Jan 8) ...

According to the CDC website the formulations for the 2008-2009 flu seasons for both the injectable and intranasal flu vaccine  2008-09 include protection against A/Brisbane/59/2007 (H1N1), A/Brisbane/10/2007 (H3N2), and B/Florida/4/2006 strains....

Sometimes issues just seem to pick us...

An awesome site for an equally awesome bunch of people. This will be a short post but I wanted to make sure that this group and groups like them get the attention that they deserve. The site is called The Kitchen Table and it is focused on the firefighting community at large...

Google has realized that what people are searching for on the internet may be an early indication of what people are experiencing in any given area. Knowing this information may give us the first clue that a pandemic has begun...

It has everything to do with us here in the US. It has everything to do with me sitting here at my computer in Monson MA. It has everything to do with you, the reader of this blog. When we can close our eyes to the suffering of millions we have lost something...

The truth is that the numbers of flu cases may actually decrease because human behavior is actually changing. So yes, we do hype influenza. And yes, we do hype what we can do to *mitigate” the season. ...