Word: viruses
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...with some schools opening this month, a few decisions must be made. If the virus does not mutate into something more deadly, federal officials will urge local schools to stay open unless so many children or staffers are sick that teaching becomes difficult. This is a change from the spring, when some school districts simply shut down for a week or more as students began getting symptoms. U.S. officials now believe wholesale shutdowns are unnecessary, given the fact that the bug is already so widespread, and potentially too disruptive. When schools close, many parents have to stay home from work...
...winter months. It has been spreading fast, attendance has dropped at Patagonian ski resorts, and flu fears have crippled the Buenos Aires theater business. Across the region, countries are reporting that H1N1 has become the dominant strain of the flu season. But the most positive development is that the virus has so far not mutated - a fact that makes it possible for scientists to create a vaccine for it. All these developments are being tracked at the White House, where flu meetings happen usually twice a week in the Situation Room and President Barack Obama gets updates in the Oval...
...swimsuits. But they also carried something new. First there was one fever, then six, then nine campers in a single day. By the end of the first full week, dozens of kids were sleeping on state-issued cots in a specially quarantined cabin, waiting out a pandemic flu virus that is barnstorming its way across the globe. Camp Modin was not alone; so far this summer, at least 80 camps in 40 states, including a full quarter of Maine's residential summer camps, have reportedly been hit by the bug known worldwide as H1N1. U.S. health officials were struck...
...Mobilization Sebelius says the most accurate modeling for the current virus is likely to be found in the 1957 flu epidemic. Like H1N1, that flu began early in the year on foreign soil and was relatively quiet in the summer. Once school reconvened, however, it surged. As the disease peaked in October - between the launch of Sputnik and the release of the movie Jailhouse Rock - 43% of Manhattan students and 11% of New York City teachers reported absent from school in a single day. By the time it dissipated, about 1 in 4 Americans had taken ill from the disease...
...Although so far the virus doesn't appear to have a significantly higher fatality rate than the usual seasonal flu, no one has immunity to the new strain - meaning we're likely to see very high infection rates. H1N1 is still spreading in the U.S., even during the summer - chiefly in summer camps and military installations, where young people are spending a lot of time in close contact. That alone shows just how transmissible this new virus is: we're dry kindling, and H1N1 is the match. But as with previous viruses in previous years, the real test for H1N1...