Word: influenza
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...explaining what they know and what they don't and planning for the worst. "It's going to be a unique flu season. The only thing certain is uncertainty," says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Even with the best efforts, influenza will cause severe illness and, tragically, some death...
...Emptive Strike Medically speaking, we are far better prepared than we used to be. In 1918, when many of our grandparents were children, another pandemic influenza killed more than 50 million people. Like the current one, the 1918 virus was a type of flu called H1N1. And like this one, it targeted the young: most of those who died were under age 40. Historical accounts suggest that it also began as a milder springtime flu before returning in the fall as a killing machine more efficient than World War I. In six months, that pandemic killed more people than AIDS...
...drugs to help reduce the suffering, antibiotics to treat dangerous secondary infections like pneumonia, and real-time communications to spread the word. Soon we will almost certainly have a vaccine as well. We're living through an unprecedented opportunity for civilization - a chance to pre-empt a catastrophic pandemic influenza rather than just react...
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...
...H1N1 vaccine first. The state has already begun production of the H1N1 vaccine, and, optimistically, UHS could receive “a lot” of the H1N1 vaccine ordered by the end of October, Rosenthal said. Since the end of August, 120 people have gone to UHS with influenza-like illnesses, about 80 to 85 percent of whom are undergraduates, according to Rosenthal. This number is much higher than the usual number of sick students in September. “What we’re seeing in a day, we might be seeing in a week last year...