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The women have done well. However, the make 6×1500m record has stood since… 1971.

and I’m too old and too slow to help. Besides, it is two layer, hat and gloves temp now… Autumn has arrived.

Athletics: Hill City smashes lovelock record

By Wayne Parsons on Mon, 4 May 2009

Athletics

Hill City runner Kim Hebert-Losier competes in the Lovelock Relay at the University Oval on Saturday. Photo by Peter McIntosh.

Hill City runner Kim Hebert-Losier competes in the Lovelock Relay at the University Oval on Saturday. Photo by Peter McIntosh.

Hill City’s Paula Whiting and Rebekah Greene set up a record-breaking victory at the Lovelock Relay meeting at the University Oval on Saturday

Whiting, Greene, Kim Hebert-Losier and Shireen Crumpton won the 4×1500m event in 19min 30sec.

Their time smashed the record of 19min 46sec set in 1989 by the Leith team of Leanne Durry, Mary-Anne Henzell, Lisa Pollock and Fiona McKee.

via Athletics: Hill City smashes lovelock record | Otago Daily Times Online.

This is what public health is good at. Quarantine, ensuring hygiene, and getting treatments out, using compulsion when necessary.

Panicking does not help. Scoring political points, concentrating on the economics or standing on one’s rights does not help. Nineteethn Century, pre-antibiotic methods: quarantine, ring immunisation or treatment (if available) DO help.

Nine days after swine flu was detected in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health believes the public are not at great risk of being infected, but it is remaining cautious.

The ministry said yesterday that there was no evidence swine flu had spread beyond people who had travelled to Mexico or the United States, or people who had been in close contact with them. A spokesman said the World Health Organisation’s pandemic danger signs – community outbreaks and unexplainable human-to-human transmission – were not evident in New Zealand.

Calls to the Healthline with swine flu queries had tapered off. However, health authorities were tightening controls to ensure the bug was contained and stamped out.

via No signs swine flu spreading – ministry – National – NZ Herald News.