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...drama out of the story. Early on, the family agreed to do a local TV-news interview - to show that they were "just a normal family with a virus," as Patrick puts it. Then the national shows started calling. "What was it like when you found out you had swine flu?" a CNN anchor asked Hayden. He replied, in a teenager's deadpan, "I mean, it's just the flu. I just went through it normally." Producers asked the family to wear face masks on camera, even though health officials had told them that wasn't necessary. Meanwhile, regular people...
...without nurses, and people without a sick-leave option choose between going to work with a raging fever or getting fired. At the University of Washington, some 2,000 students have reported having H1N1 symptoms. At Emory University in Atlanta, sick kids are relocated to a dorm dubbed Club Swine. But H1N1 has also homed in on the weaknesses in our heads - hovering in the blind spots where our risk analyses break down, just beyond the view of our mind's eye. What is the defense for the mind games of a virus...
...pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...were under age 40. Historical accounts suggest that it also began as a milder springtime flu before returning in the fall as a killing machine more efficient than World War I. In six months, that pandemic killed more people than AIDS has killed in 28 years. (See how the swine flu virus works...
...someone we know goes to the hospital with H1N1. "Decisions have to be made in the absence of true, hard scientific information," says Dr. Paul Jarris, head of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. "We just have to be comfortable with that." (See how to track the swine flu outbreak on your iPhone...