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Health officials are estimating that as many as a third to a half of all Americans will get the H1N1 flu this year.
Typically, it’s the very young and the very old who are at greatest risk for the seasonal flu.
But H1N1 is different.
Young adults up to the age of 24 are among those at greatest risk for this new strain.
And that means colleges and universities are already trying to ward off an onslaught of illness.
NHPR’s health reporter Elaine Grant has more.

Contrary to our bucolic visions of farms in New Hampshire surrounded by natural beauty…farms and nurseries use thousands of pounds of plastic every year.
And every year, most of those plastics end up buried in landfills or burned; not recycled.
As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, recycling agriculture plastics is a growing problem.

The media this week have been reporting dire predictions about the effects of the second wave of swine flu this fall.

As kids are heading off to school, parents are reading reports that children and young people may be most affected by H1N1.

But public health officials are asking people to keep the news and predictions in perspective.

Dr. Jose Montero is New Hampshire's Director of Public Health.

He tell's NHPR's Elaine Grant that it is in our power to limit the damage from this new strain of flu.

Auto Dealers may be waiting for government rebates, but when they come in it appears the Cash for Clunkers Program has been good for New Hampshire.

NHPR's Mark Bevis has more.

Black bears in the North Country are not unusual. But this summer Bethlehem has got more bears than it wants and people are to blame. NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.