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...Hong Kong's "bird flu" was a virus that was part human, part avian. Much luck, hard scientific labor and prompt containment measures prevented that outbreak from turning into a global catastrophe. Next time we might not be so fortunate. Medical records dating back to the 18th century show waves of influenza rolling westward from Asia through Russia into Europe with disturbing regularity. Three or four times a century, a pandemic spreads from flu's heartland. So statistically speaking, since the last reassorted strain emerged in Hong Kong in 1968, we're due for another...
...Prompt action by local health authorities can nip an outbreak in the bud, saving lives and billions of dollars. "When you confront new diseases and they begin to travel widely, you have to do everything you can to try to stop the transmission," says World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Dick Thompson. "Maximum efforts in the beginning are justified." Although doctors and scientists decline to point fingers, it's increasingly clear that the Hong Kong government failed to recognize the potential threat when SARS first surfaced and downplayed its impact to avoid panic and bad publicity. As a result, the virus...
...half of Harvard’s 6,650 undergraduates report feeling “depressed” at some point over the last year and a disturbing 10 percent admit to having had thoughts of suicide in that time. This is a startling increase over previous surveys and should prompt an extensive response from the University. The administration, in concert with a panel of healthcare professionals, students and faculty, should look into ways of addressing this issue with the immediacy and effectiveness that such a serious student health issue warrants. The fact that 12 suicides have occurred at Harvard since...
...despite the challenge filed by an anonymous Harvard undergraduate. The student argued that Harvard’s policy—which as of last spring was worded to require the claimant to provide “sufficient independent corroboration”—discriminated against women, denying prompt and equitable recourse to students who experienced sexual assault...
...find sufficient evidence to establish that the changes to the grievance procedures, as explained by the College staff, deprive students of access to a process providing a prompt and equitable resolution of their complaints,” the letter read...