Showing posts with label flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flu. Show all posts

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.