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...major question is what impact the virus will have in the next flu season, when the conditions could be ripe for the disease to spread rapidly. Another concern is what will happen in developing countries that haven't yet had to deal with H1N1. Rich countries like the U.S. can afford to spend millions on antivirals like Tamiflu, but in poorer nations, especially in those parts of sub-Saharan Africa where rampant HIV makes the population more vulnerable to secondary infections like flu, H1N1 will likely take a far greater toll. Indeed, health officials said last week that early evidence...
...pictures of soccer in the time of swine flu...
There is no more powerful image of fear than a population gripped by plague. A novel flu virus exploded through Mexico last week, killing some 150, infecting hundreds more, and generating images of masked citizens and grim officials enumerating the latest toll. By April 29, the virus had spread to at least nine countries, leading health officials to raise the alert level and warn that a pandemic is imminent; the most recent influenza pandemic, in 1968, killed around a million people...
Fear thrives on uncertainty, and the current swine-flu virus has left health officials pondering crucial, unanswered questions: How easily is the virus transmitted between people? Why does it seem to be more lethal in Mexico than elsewhere? Can it be stopped? How long will it take to develop a vaccine...
Harvard will not restrict international travel—including trips to Mexico—in response to the Swine Flu epidemic, University leaders decided last week. “This is a contingent decision, that is, it can change depending on information about events yet to occur,” wrote Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez in an e-mailed statement. “But, given the near end of the academic year, it seemed sensible to reach this decision explicitly.” In the past week, several other colleges and universities, including Yale, have announced...