Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready

An anonymous reader writes "Supercomputer software models predict that swine flu will likely go pandemic sometime next week, but flu chips capable of detecting the virus within four hours are already rolling off the assembly line. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has designated swine flu as the '2009 H1N1 flu virus,' is modeling the spread of the virus using modeling software designed by the Department of Defense back when avian flu was a perceived threat. Now those programs are being run on cluster supercomputers and predict that officials are not implementing enough social distancing--such as closing all schools--to prevent a pandemic. Companies that designed flu-detecting chips for avian flu, are quickly retrofitting them to detect swine flu, with the first flu chips being delivered to labs today." Relatedly, at least one bio-surveillance firm is claiming they detected and warned the CDC and the WHO about the swine flu problem in Mexico over two weeks before the alert was issued.

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Re:Fear Mongering for Sales?

[rorin]

Even better, the blog author's "source" is the article on EETimes written by ...the blog author.

Rolan P. is the Undead!!

[rts008]

This is just the boogey man du jour. Got to sell those newspapers and that ad space!

TFA is a prime example of this.
The summary first links to a blog[ad space] that links to the real article[more ad space]. The real article is also written by the author of said blog.

I will give credit for the real article being an interesting read, but why not go straight to the real article in the first place?

To top that off, the second link(also a blog) in the 'fine' article is an astroturf piece for some data mining company that's whining that WHO, CDC, and one other organization are not buying his company's services and software, and pushing an international tracking system that his company 'deserves' to be part of.[his word]

The whole point of this story was to increase adviews on two websites by the same guy, and push an astroturf on another blog.

We used to blast Roland P. for this until he finally stopped. Then shortly died...Hmmm....

There are a small handful of web sites I whitelist in Adblock+, but this crap is one of the main reasons I don't feel bad about using it in the first place.