Word: influenzae
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...vaccine to be withheld as a precaution. Less than a day later, a preliminary postmortem examination found that the vaccine was unlikely to have killed Morton and blamed instead a "serious underlying medical condition." Still, as many Western nations are about to begin massive inoculation programs against the H1N1 influenza, Morton's death underlines the cruel reality behind any vaccination campaign: there's always the risk that a small number of vaccine recipients will suffer an adverse reaction - and that it sometimes can be deadly. (Read "What You Need to Know About the H1N1 Vaccine...
...vaccine outweighed the benefits, according to a report in the Emergency Health Threats Journal in August. Another study published last month in the online edition of the British Medical Journal found that less than half of Hong Kong's health-care workers said they intended to receive a H1N1 influenza vaccine...
Brown and Yale have also reported more probable H1N1 cases than Harvard. Brown's health services reported 234 cases of influenza-like illness as of last Wednesday, and over 300 Yale community members have contracted the H1N1 virus as of last Thursday...
...Princeton has emerged relatively unscathed so far–only 80 total students have contracted influenza-like illness as of a week...
Dartmouth seems to be right on pace with Harvard. They just started school because of their quarter system, but they diagnosed 47 new cases of influenza-like illness last week, only three fewer than Harvard. And if swine flu has advanced to the backwoods of Hanover, New Hampshire, all we at FlyBy can do is cross our fingers and use Harvard’s hand sanitizers...