Billy Corgan
For Rolling Stone

“I am not a doctor, and I am in no way suggesting that you should follow any medical advice from me,” Billy Corgan writes at the top of a blog post about swine flu. What follows is nearly 850 words of Corgan spitting conspiracy theories on his Everything From Here to There blog regarding the H1N1 virus.

Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman has a central thesis — that the illness was “created by man” and driven by a “propaganda machine” powered by fear. “I for one will not be taking the vaccine. I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear,” Corgan writes. “This is not judgment; it is a personal decision based on research, intuition, conversations with my doctor and my ‘family’. If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord.” Corgan also argues against a potential Massachusetts state law that will require residents of the state to receive the vaccine. “Soon, you won’t even have the choice to live OR die as you wish!”

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Special to CNN

Like most people, I'd given some thought to what meat actually is, but until I became a father and faced the prospect of having to make food choices on someone else's behalf, there was no urgency to get to the bottom of things.

I'm a novelist and never had it in mind to write nonfiction. Frankly, I doubt I'll ever do it again. But the subject of animal agriculture, at this moment, is something no one should ignore. As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

If the way we raise animals for food isn't the most important problem in the world right now, it's arguably the No. 1 cause of global warming: The United Nations reports the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined.

It's the No. 1 cause of animal suffering, a decisive factor in the creation of zoonotic diseases like bird and swine flu, and the list goes on. It is the problem with the most deafening silence surrounding it.

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Cameron Harrelson, 16, of Baxley, Georgia, said he feels safer now that he got his H1N1 flu shot.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Who will be recommended to receive the 2009 H1N1 vaccine? Will two doses of vaccine be required? Can people who are allergic to eggs receive the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine? These are some questions you may be asking yourself about the H1N1 vaccine.

Click here to view answers to most commonly asked questions and find out more about the H1N1 vaccine currently available in the US.

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CNN

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How much do you know know about H1N1?

Concern about the H1N1 virus grew after it spread quickly around the globe earlier this year.

Elizabeth Landau
CNN

Yessica Maher of Los Angeles, California, feels let down. She had wanted to get the H1N1 vaccine for herself and her children, but that's proving to be difficult.

Her doctor is out of the vaccine, and so is the pediatrician. Her two older sons were not eligible for the nasal spray version because of asthma, and she was told the shot would not become available until perhaps November. Her youngest son, 2, goes to a preschool where there was recently a diagnosis of H1N1.

"I feel that the government and health officials, they knew this was big when it first started, they know the size of our population before it started, and they didn't make leaps and bounds to make sure it was available to everyone when they would need it," she said. "It shouldn't be a supply-and-demand thing."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week that production of the vaccine is slower than expected. While the CDC had hoped for 40 million doses by the end of October, the real numbers will be about 30 million doses because of manufacturing delays, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC's director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

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AC360°

Over the weekend, President Obama declared a national emergency to deal with the “rapid increase in illness” from the H1N1 virus. The declaration could help local health-care providers set up special facilities to deal with swine-flu outbreaks more rapidly.

The CDC announced last week that production of the vaccine is slower than expected. While the CDC had hoped for 40 million doses by the end of the month, the real number is estimated to be about 30 million – due to manufacturing delays. Public health departments across the country are quickly running out of H1N1 vaccine and don’t know when the next batches will arrive.

Do you have questions about the H1N1 virus and the vaccine? Dr. Sanjay Gupta will be on with answers tonight.

Let us know! We'll have answers tonight.

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AC360° Anchor