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Influenza, as opposed to the more common flu is marked by chills, high fever, muscle aching, headache and a cough, Postel said, adding, "the flu is more like a cold--a sore throat and stuffy nose...
Harvard doctors will not know whether any of the UHS patients exhibiting influenza symptoms were actually infected until the state finishes testing virus cultures taken from some of the students, deputy director of the health services Dr. Sholem Postel, said yesterday...
However, despite occurence of the influenza virus some health experts are down-playing the outbreak's significance. Postel noted that so far the number of cases reported was much fewer than previous epidemics...
...Postel said that the current outbreak occured primarily among young people might be attributed to the virus's cyclic pattern and that possibly the present generation of college age students grew up without immunity...
...Ever since the December incident we've continued to have a trickle of gastro-intestinal incidents," said Dr. Sholem Postel, deputy director...