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...don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon said. Under this contingency plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would promote traditional approaches for contagion control such as washing your hands or covering your mouth when you sneeze. For his part, CDC quarantine chief Martin Cetron said that the results of the Harvard study could guide future methods of approaching the pandemic flu. The CDC is “trying to get a public opinion of what people would best respond...
...response to 1994’s outbreak formed the basis for UHS’s current protocol. And post-9/11 fears led administrators to refine those plans. After the 9/11 attacks, the threat of anthrax and other biological agents led administrators to consider the high risk of contagion in residential colleges. They try to preempt, rather than acting after the fact.The Hot ZoneLate in the evening of Dec. 8 of 1994, freshmen began streaming into Stillman Infirmary; thirty students would receive IV treatment on site. UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, who was also director...
...cupcake. Just like there's nothing inherently wrong in the Koran. But our society's twisting of the cupcake's role has become a sickness. They've paved the local bakery and put up a $3 cupcake store. Not only has the cupcake specialty boutique spread like a contagion to nearly every major city in the country, but nearly a dozen cupcake-recipe books have come out in the past two years, which is particularly amazing when you consider that, not counting dye, there are only about seven ingredients in a cupcake...
...slow down, hang out and chill. This year, however, the sweltering city is on edge, bewildered and a little sad. This year, it's not bushfires threatening the harmony of the city?s 4 million residents, but instead ugly scenes of street violence in what many mistakenly label a contagion of racial hatred...
...them all at draft stage. The Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor, whose rule was marked by financial bankruptcy and internal rebellion. Kangxi was only 7 in 1662 when he assumed the throne from his father, the first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact, as portraits show), Kangxi worked skillfully to identify himself with both his native tribal culture and the scholarly traditions of the Chinese. Two likenesses, commissioned when he was about 30, demonstrate his Manchu soldier?Chinese scholar balancing act. A vibrant silk hanging scroll shows him in Manchu...