Tuesday, July 19, 2011

vaccines not cancellations for flu?

Study of the UCSD campus during a 2009 H1N1 outbreak

http://www.asm.org/index.php/news-room/how-flu-virus-spreads-to-college-community-major-implications-for-control.html (also has link to original journal article there)


highlights:

  • quite a diversity of flu strains coming into the campus
  • influx of strains has enough impact on the student community that they end up recommending that perhaps vaccinations are more important than doing something like cancelling classes as a way to prevent spread

would this be a pattern seen consistently enough to apply to our school? Neat application.

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