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For whatever reason — out of concern, curiosity or just a desire to stay up to date with current events — people are going out of their way to track the H1N1 influenza virus (that’s the swine flu) in real time over the Internet.
There’s an Internet Explorer plug-in, for example.
The word is officially out on the swine flu and the danger it could potentially cause the human race. Our science bloggers Robert and Allison have done a nice job covering the issue so far here and here so I won’t cover those details here.
However, I came across this article on Marketwatch today that was kind of interesting. Seems that the swine flu scare has caused oil prices to drop some and has actually boosted the American dollar a bit. The price of oil fell about five percent this morning, settling in at $48.77 per barrell. As concerns of a pandemic spread, risky assets like stocks tend to go down. It turns out that oil traders take the stock market performance as a cue for overall economy, which is why oil prices tend to rise and fall with what’s happening on Wall St.
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