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...roommate was diagnosed with swine flu yesterday and they're basically in quarantine to prevent the spread of it," stated the e-mail, which reached the open lists for eight of Harvard College's 12 Houses in the space of just five hours this afternoon. "They go to MIT but live off campus in Boston so that means there are definite cases going around the area," the e-mail continued...
...there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu among the MIT student population, said Howard Heller, the chief of Internal Medicine at MIT, in an interview this afternoon. According to Heller, as of yesterday MIT has seen one confirmed case of Influenza A--a general species of the flu virus whose many variants include the standard "human flu" as well as the "H1N1 virus" known as swine flu--but it was unlikely that the person diagnosed had contracted swine...
Contacted for comment by The Crimson this afternoon, the MIT senior who sent the original e-mail this morning wrote in an e-mail that she had no further comment on the matter and that "nothing is confirmed...
...mistake was eventually corrected at a later point in the MIT e-mail chain by a first-year MIT student, who wrote at 12:14 p.m, 10 minutes after the original message had made its first appearance on a Harvard house list, that "the girl is at MGH being tested for swine flu. So far, it is only known that she has the flu. When [redacted] sent this email this morning, she didn't know that. Don't freak out, just keep washing your hands and stuff like that...
...that hasn't kept the disease from taking it's toll on the MIT medical center, which has seen increased traffic from people thinking they might have the disease...