SF News Swine Flu Update: Triage Tents, Number Counts, & Threat Levels Cabo San Lucas turns into a ghost town, more schools close in the East Bay, WHO raises pandemic threat level to 5, hand sanitizer flying off shelves -- Swine Flu Watch 2K9 is
SF News Swine Flu Cases Close Bay Area Schools After one confirmed case of swine flu and thee other possible cases, two Bay Area schools have closed. First, San Jose's Branham High School will be shut down for a week after a
SF News Schwarzenegger Declares Swine Flu Emergency in California What with the swine flu breaking out in Sacramento, Marin County, and "the possibility that a California man may have died from the disease" (which, actually, wasn't the case) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
SF News 2 Swine Flu Cases In Marin The first two cases of swine flu were just discovered last night. Two Marin residents, an unidentified 60-year-old woman and her 20-month-old granddaughter, just tested positive for swine flu. Both of them, it
SF News Newsom Urges Calm as Swine Flu Approaches While the Feds want you to nix your travel plans to Mexico and Governor Schwarzenegger says California is (allegedly) prepared for Influenza Watch 2K9, Mayor Gavin Newsom's team says there's no need to
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
SF News Swine Flu Map View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Adding to the paranoia that is Swine Flu Tracker 2009, here's a handy map that shows reported cases of the flu throughout the U.S.
SF News Sacramento Co. May Have Swine Flu Case Now that swine flu hysteria is taking root, Sacramento County may have uncovered a case of swine flu, according to the Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet. This would make it Northern
SF News Egg Roll Recall Due to some sort of pepper recall, Chinese food appetizer the egg roll is now also being tainted pepper connected to a salmonella outbreak. According to reports, "California's Department of Public Health is
SF News A Room of One's Own...In Which to Shoot Up As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's
misc SF Gays Are Boring: Meth Use Down, HIV Rates Stable Wired News just reported about the San Francisco Department of Public Health's finding that speed use among SF gays and SF-native Stephanie Tanner has decreased over the past three years. (Is there some
SF News Third Fake Question Time The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON! Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog
Arts & Entertainment Haight Ashbury Free Clinics’ Integrated Care Center Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.CEO John Eckstrom, Board Chair Eric Flowers, and Barbara Garcia of the S.F. Department of Public Health all addressed the crowd of over 100 on Mission Street
SF News Treasure Hunt: Hot Tongue Action Nothing gets our treasure hunting heart pounding as fast as a crowded taco truck tucked away on a parking lot. Unfortunately the delicious meal we wolf down sometimes makes our stomach heave just
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Penises. Pubic Hair Optional. BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about
SF News These Folks Should Partner with Evite The cards include a drop-box menu of eight disease options (chlamydia, molluscum contagiosum, and non-gonorrheal urethritis being three), but do not include HIV. ("the designers feared that spammers might use that attribute to
