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...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 in July. My great-grandfather implemented these measures despite -22?F (-30?C) temperatures, decrepit facilities, traditional preferences for land burials and - what he found most worrisome - the fatalism of local residents. His initiatives worked. Within four months...
...Read "Inside the Fight Against a Flu Pandemic...
...since August, about 50 are currently active. These students are either in isolated rooms, at home, or in Stillman Infirmary. “Everyone at Stillman has been phenomenal,” said Kevin W.H. Chi ’10, who has been in Stillman for five days with flu-like symptoms, including a 103 degree fever and a cough. “UHS tends to get a bad rap. I’ve been taken care of very well.” Chi said he receives food from Harvard University Dining Services every day after he fills...
...swine flu...
...pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine flu...