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...Hayden Henshaw, 18, got sick on a Tuesday in late April. He was at his high school in Cibolo, Texas, just outside San Antonio, when he came down with a fever of 103°F (39°C) and felt nauseated. Three days later, his doctor confirmed he had a mysterious new strain of swine flu that had just hit the U.S. - a virus that would eventually be labeled H1N1 of 2009. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...revealing our vulnerabilities in quick order. Already we have been humbled by the virus's exploitation of our fragmented health-care system, as families without insurance overwhelm emergency rooms, schools flounder without nurses, and people without a sick-leave option choose between going to work with a raging fever or getting fired. At the University of Washington, some 2,000 students have reported having H1N1 symptoms. At Emory University in Atlanta, sick kids are relocated to a dorm dubbed Club Swine. But H1N1 has also homed in on the weaknesses in our heads - hovering in the blind spots where...
...know: in the coming days, as the weather cools and children warehouse germs in school, many more Americans than normal may become sick with the flu. Everyone will probably know someone who is sick. (Most will never know for sure if they had H1N1, but if they had a fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue, that will be a safe assumption.) People under age 25 are more likely to get sick. Most who get it will be quite ill for about a week and then recover, assuming the virus doesn't mutate...
...three-day train ride, he arrived in the frigid city to lead an international team of plague fighters. "As [we] entered the town, [we] could sense an air of tenseness and foreboding among the inhabitants," he wrote in his memoirs. "Everywhere there were guarded talks and whispers of fever, blood-spitting and sudden deaths, of corpses abandoned by roadsides and open fields." He introduced the practices of wearing face masks, cremating infected corpses and observing strict quarantine - methods used today to fight pandemics such as SARS and swine flu and even a small outbreak of pneumonic plague in Qinghai province...
Last Friday, September 18, the College opened a new hotline for students, faculty, staff, and, you guessed it, parents to call with any questions they have about the H1N1 influenza. Call 877-366-6606 for a good time...or at least some information about whether your fever means you should skip Ec 10 today...