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...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 flu...
...word spread that three students at Hayden's school had the new flu, people in his town began trying to stamp out the uncertainty. It was an unsatisfying endeavor. Health officials came to Hayden's house and asked him dozens of questions. Had he been to Mexico lately? (No.) Had he had contact with any pigs? (No.) That weekend, Texas health officials closed all 14 schools in Hayden's district, sending 11,000 children home. Workers wiped down the school district's 100-plus buses. At Cibolo city hall, employees posted signs asking residents to pay their utility bills...
After the swine flu epidemic dissipates, the University plans to turn the phone number into a hotline for other "major issues of interest to the Harvard community," as the website says...
Harvard hasn't made it possible for you to do your child's laundry or ensure that they are in bed by 9:30 every night, but the University can now soothe your every worry about the biggest crisis to hit Harvard since we ran out of money - swine flu...
...automated male voice directed us to check out harvard.edu/h1n1 for information about the University's swine flu policies. If that didn't help, we were given five choices to pick from based...