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DOES IT WORRY YOU THAT IF YOU LIVE AND WORK TOGETHER, YOU'LL GET SICK OF EACH OTHER? Loretta: Nah. It's one of those jobs where you don't really run into each other too much. We'll never see each other except to go down to vote...
...Dave Forney, chief of the CDC's vessel-sanitation program. He sees this kind of thing all the time; a similar outbreak on several ships in Alaska last summer got almost no press. In fact, he says, as far as gastrointestinal illness goes, fewer people may be getting sick this year than last...
...ships provide excellent breeding grounds, but so do schools, hotels, camps, nursing homes and hospitals. "Whenever we look for this virus," says Dr. Marc Widdowson, a CDC epidemiologist, "we find it." Just last week 100 students (of 500) at the Varsity Acres Elementary School in Calgary, Alta., stayed home sick. School prank? Hardly. The Norwalk virus had struck again...
...course, if you are ill or recovering from a stomach bug, you might do everybody a favor and put off your travel until the infectious period has passed (it can take a couple of weeks). To reduce your chances of getting sick, the best thing to do is wash your hands--frequently and thoroughly--and keep them out of your mouth...
INDICATORS Crossing The Sick-It Line Last year, British workers took 33 million sick days due to work-related ill health, says a government study - nearly double the number in 1995. Contrast that to the number of workdays lost to strikes over the past year - a mere...