Word: viruses
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...shown far less enthusiasm, with many deciding not to back the plan. Instead of serving as a surefire weapon against the spread of HIV, Uganda's female-condoms initiative has become the latest example of the limitations faced by governments, advocacy groups and donors in the fight against the virus...
Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide...
...When the virus entered the United States last April, the Centers for Disease Control issued test kits to physicians around the country to record confirmed cases. But by late July, doctors stopped individual reporting, saying the flu strain had become so extensive that maintaining such detailed surveillance was time-consuming and likely underestimating the true number of flu cases in the U.S. The Alabama Department of Public Health came up with a new plan: tracking the virus through school absentee records, voluntarily shared by individual districts. (Check out a story on the rapid spread of the H1N1 virus...
...southeast Alabama, one hospital banned children under the age of 12 from waiting rooms to help stop the spread of the virus, and Samford University called up its Pandemic Planning Team to keep students and parents informed. Opelika high school's head football coach faced his first game of the season Friday night with a quarter of his team benched...
...symptoms will follow the CDC's advice and stay home. "There's not much we're going to be able to do for you anyway, and we don't need you in the waiting room infecting the person with the broken arm or whatever," he says. "It's a virus, and it will work its course. If you're healthy, in a couple of days you'll feel a lot better, but if you're compromised, you'll sure enough want to be seen...