I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Michigan Department of Community Health announced today that it was “on alert” for possible cases of swine flu. A press release issued Sunday afternoon by MDCH had this to say:
“Michigan is on alert,” said Dr. Greg Holzman, MDCH Chief Medical Executive. “We’re communicating with doctors and hospitals in Michigan with advice on what to look for when they have patients coming in feeling ill. If doctors see patients with a high fever and a cough or sore throat, we’re asking them to collect a specimen and send it to our lab in Lansing for testing.”
An outbreak of the flu, which is created when human flu virus mixes with the virus found in pigs, has moved Mexico into emergency actions and late this afternoon the U.S. declared a public health emergency. Mexican officials have said more than 80 people have died from the disease in the last two weeks, and another 1,300 people have been confirmed as infected, the New York Times reported.
Health officials confirmed they have identified 20 cases in the U.S., with one of those cases in Ohio. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says it has identified eight cases in New York, seven in California, two in both Kansas and Texas in addition to the Ohio case. CDC officials say the identified cases in the U.S. have been mild.
U.S. government officials downplayed the emergency declaration, noting that it was really a declaration of emergency preparedness. Those officials say the declaration removes road blocks to identifying infections, distributing antiviral medications to treat the disease and frees up necessary money resources to track outbreaks.
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