AUC Suspends Classes for H1N1 SwineFlu

Here is the notice that AUC sent out:
AUC to Suspend Classes until October 3rd
AUC will be suspending classes beginning Thursday, September 17 until Saturday, October 3. The decision follows a request by the Egyptian government that the university suspend its classes in line with government universities, which have suspended classes due to concerns relating to [...]

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H1N1 SwineFlu in Egypt

Subsequent to the confirmed AUC cases that lead to a quarantine of the Zamalek dorms and the university suspending activities for a week, there have been numerous unsourced reports of other cases. I’ve heard that the MoH announced another case in each of Cairo and Alex. There are rumors of someone being tested from an [...]

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New H1N1 cases confirmed at AUC dorms

The Minstry of Health has apparently confirmed at least 5 new cases of the H1N1 “SwineFlu” virus in the AUC’s currently quarantined dorms. Press release should be at 3 pm.
Source: DailyNewsEgypt on twitter.
AUC has suspended campus activities until Sunday the 14th.

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AUC Suspends classes for H1N1 SwineFlu

Classes suspended until next Sunday (14th).. AUC email below:
UPDATE: apparently food court has been shut down, ACs turned off, masks handed out. And only one person per row is being allowed on the shuttle buses.
Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Subject: AUC Suspends Classes and Events Until June 14
To: allauc@mlist.aucegypt.edu

AUC Suspends Classes and [...]

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H1N1 Swine Flu Confirmed at AUC

UPDATES below. New updates at this post and new confirmed cases here.
It seems that SwineFlu has hit Egypt. Just when we were feeling left out. One question that i have to wonder about is: Why AUC? Did study abroads bring it in? Or is it just that these are the people with the means to [...]

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“European Governments Battle the Continent’s Birth Dearth”

I recently posted on world population trends. Here’s an article on the the various measures being implemented and discussed in an attempt to  stave off the impending European population shrinkage. Some of the initiatives sound like the US Army.
I find it funny that this issue is being raised as European (and other developed) countries are [...]

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FP’s Five population trends to watch

Nothing really new here. Just some geopolitical strategic food for thought. Developed countries will age; the South’s population will boom; AIDs and other diseases are killing subsaharans at their most productive ages; indians and chinese are becoming more male; and the south moves north.

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Hurtful food aid

I’ve got a draft that i’ve been meaning to work on for a while on health aid. Soon. Anyway, in an encouraging sign, according to the iht, CARE, one of the largest international development and aid NGOs, has announced that it will stop participating in the US gov’t’s food aid programs. Or at least the [...]

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