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...Crimson's game at the University of New Hampshire scheduled for last Saturday afternoon was postponed indefinitely after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health quarantined the entire Harvard team to campus because of exposure to Bordetella pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough...
...captain Sarah Russell was treated for whooping cough in October, but she recovered fully. While many players have been sick since then, primarily with respiratory trouble, no one was treated for whooping cough until last week...
Because whooping cough is difficult to diagnose due to its flu-like symptoms, every member of the team received a prescription for antibiotics as a precautionary measure...
Harvard is off to a 2-5 start, its worst in five years, but the team has not been at full strength since its 81-74 overtime victory against Boston University in the Crimson's first game of the season. This run in with whooping cough is only the latest in a bizarre string of injuries, illnesses and strange circumstances that have plagued the women's basketball team since the preseason...
Russell and fellow co-captain Suzie Miller both spent the majority of the preseason ill. Russell had walking pneumonia in addition to her whooping cough, and Miller had a virus that doctors could not diagnose for two months. Both have recovered, although Miller had a head cold last week from which she is still recuperating...