Results tagged “h1n1”

• Mass. lawmakers are debating establishing preferred parking zones for low emission vehicles. [Boston Herald]

• Ted Kennedy Jr. has no plans to actively support any candidate in the Massachusetts Senate race.[Boston Globe]

• Michael Capuano told Fox25 that he is good and his opponents are really really bad. [MyFoxBoston.com]

• With the Patrick administration considering expanding gambling in Massachusetts, the Governor is proposing budget cuts to helping gambling addicts. [Boston Herald]

• Governor Deval Patrick's administration plans to cut funding for special treatment units for prisoners with mental illness. The cut could restart a suit by the Disability Law Center against the Department of Correction that was headed for an out of court settlement. [Boston Globe]

David Krejci had the H1N1 virus, won't play tonight and is day-to-day. Peter Chiarelli predictably said the team is taking sufficient precautions to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus. Claude Julien and his club are down with Chiarelli's take. Julien says other teams don't care about the problems facing his team. FYI, Canadiens in Boston tonight.

• President Obama's trip to Boston is in the books. He discussed energy policy at MIT, visited a wind-testing facility in Charlestown that received federal stimulus funds, and attended a fundraiser for Gov. Deval Patrick. [Boston Herald]

• George Chmiel, 28, of Charlestown is competing in a seven-day, 150-mile foot race through the Sahara Desert. Chmiel reportedly said "It’s totally insane yet at the same time it makes a bunch of sense." Better him than Bostonist. Good luck, though. Really. [Boston Globe]

The Commonwealth got its first shipment of H1N1 vaccine yesterday, according to this blog post. That's ahead of schedule, according to the state. Don't run out all at once to get your shots, though:

• Some young artists from Cape Verdean Community Unido worked on a mural to honor the revitalization of Dudley Street. The MBTA owned the site of the mural, objected to it, and forced a change. [Boston Globe]

• The large X-Men mural on a Lincoln Street building in Allston will be gone in less than two weeks. [Boston Globe]

• Will people pay to read the Boston Globe on the Internet? We may find out. [Boston Herald]

• James Aloisi, the Mass. Transportation Secretary, suggested the MBTA may no longer need a general manager at all after Daniel A. Grabauskas "resigned" on Thursday. [Boston Globe]

--U.S. Marshals participating in Operation FALCON with other state, local and federal law enforcement agencies arrested 558 wanted criminals on 910 warrants in June. Yes, 558 lawbreakers in 30 days, or almost 20 each day. Bostonist is relieved to know about these arrests. But, that is a shockingly high number, isn't it? [Herald]

• The Boston Licensing Board met today to decide if the South Street Diner should continue to operate 24 hours after a mere 60 years of already doing it. [UniversalHub]

• Not even six months have passed since president Barack Obama took office and Rasmussen thinks we want to know that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are leading the "race" for he 2012 GOP nomination? [Boston Herald]

The Boston Business Journal has alerted us to the existence of Replikins, a local biotech company claiming to have a swine flu vaccine ready for testing. The synthetic peptide H1N1 vaccine was created using sub-sequences of the virus and modern peptide synthesis techniques. CDC spokesman Tom Skinner told the BBJ, “We should know by the end of May which institution has the most success growing a seed virus.” Testing would take time, and a vaccine would probably not be available before fall. Replikins' vaccine is not currently undergoing testing. There have been 115 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Massachusetts thus far.

• Four new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Mass.; as many as nine Harvard students may have H1N1. [Globe]
• Some kind of horse race tomorrow. [NYT]
• A flight from Munich to Washington was diverted to Boston due to a passenger's flu symptoms. The passenger was deplaned and taken to MGH; the plane continued on to DC. [WBZ]

Officials have stopped calling swine flu "swine flu," switching instead to the disease's more official (but less catchy) moniker, H1N1, which better reflects its multipart human, avian, and porcine origins. Officials (at Northeastern, at least) have also issued a moratorium on handshakes in the interest of stopping spread of the disease. H1N1 may have spread to Boston and now there are six "probable" cases in Amherst as well as two in Brockton. When will it end?