Swine Flu by Angelica Candelaria   9/25/09 Approximately six months following its emergence onto the world stage, I confess to a weariness concerning all swine flu-related news. As with all things, I inwardly groan with the media's notorious penchant for achieving overkill in its coverage of various phenomena. Yet here I sit at my desk, readying myself to join them in discussing a strain of influenza that refuses to fade quietly into the background. Irrelevant of any personal viewpoints regarding mass media, it would be foolish to remain uninformed about the nature of this epidemic and the ways it can be combated. ...Read the entire article here.