Gripe A (H1N1)

The 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of an influenza A virus subtype H1N1, referred to as the "novel H1N1" first identified in April 2009, and commonly called "swine flu." It is thought to be a reassortment of four known strains of influenza A virus.

The outbreak began in Mexico, with evidence that Mexico was already in the midst of an epidemic for months before the outbreak was recognized. Soon after, its government closed down most of Mexico City's public and private offices and facilities to help contain the spread. In early June, as the virus spread globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to be a pandemic, but also noted that most illnesses were of moderate severity.

In an attempt to slow the spread of the illness, a number of countries, especially in Asia, have quarantined airline passengers with flu symptoms, while some are also pre-screening passengers. WHO does not expect to have a full vaccine before the end of 2009, and vaccines available sooner may be limited and given first to healthcare workers, pregnant women, and other higher risk groups. Two or three injections will be required for maximum immunity from both the swine flu and seasonal flu. There is also concern if the new virus mutates further, it could become more virulent and less susceptible to any new vaccine.

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Trainspotting.

Trainspotting is a Scotch movie of 1996 directed by Danny Boyle and based on the novel written by Irvine Welsh. It treats of a group of heroin addicts of Edinburgh that they do not have aspirations in his step along the life.

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

The philosophy of life that there presents the principal personage, Mark Renton, is summarized in a question: why to choose life? Renton indicates initially of the movie that to continue to the mass and to take a normal life is complicated. That is to say, the addict does not work, does not have pair, has neither responsibilities nor mulberry tree, only it has to worry about obtaining what could sell to finance he itself his addiction. Therefore, it is not put stress, does not have you fight loving, and it is individual enough. Nevertheless, with to happen from the time, it realizes that it cannot be plunged in a circular destination, and decides to be useful. Mark's conscience is Diane, who indicates in a scene that everything is changing, included the music and the drugs, and that he cannot follow in this condition, notices that it is aging. Renton indicates that the people believe that the drug addiction is only a world of misery and desperation, but what many people forget is the pleasure.

The movie caused controversy in his time, since it was said that he was fomenting the use of drugs between the youth. The tape is considered to be one of five better British movies of all the times. It was an authentic bomb explosion both for his aesthetics and for his content, and it is there where the movie shines when they fuse an aesthetics that it would mark epoch and a few bold and accurate dialogs since human being had never treated himself about a way so crudamente the topic of the drugs.