In this guide: Why prepping has been (mostly) underground until now The “keep it secret” norm was fueled by a few circumstances. First, in the early days of prepping there was a pop-culture stigma abo

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019

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In this file photo, an influenza vaccination is prepared for a patient at the CVS Pharmacy store's MinuteClinic in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) At a Glance An estimated 15 million have been stricken with the flu in the U.S. so far. The virus has killed some 8,200 in the U.S. alone. Youth flu…

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As confirmed cases of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the outbreak. But a description of t

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During the kind of virus outbreak that China and other nations are now contending with , time is of the essence. The earlier the warning, the better the chance to contain the contagion. One problem, t

On March 25, 2019, the California Senate introduced Senate Bill No. 378 (SB-378). SB-378 proposes an estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax of 40% on the value of all owned by a California

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KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insect