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H1N1/9 Virus Spreads Quickly in U.S. Universities

September 7, 2009 (LPAC)—At least 2,000 students at Washington State University (WSU) have reported H1N1/9 flu virus symptoms in a short period of time. Sally Redman, a registered nurse who works in student health services at the university reported, "It's real. We've had a constant stream of people." The students have been streaming into the university health clinics at the rate of 200 per day, for the last ten days. WSU, based in Pullman, Washington, has 19,000 students; more than one-tenth of the students have contracted H1N1.

At the University of Idaho (UI), located in Moscow, Idaho, just 10 miles from the WSU campus, UI spokeswoman Tania Thompson reported that as many as 50 students per day are coming into the university health center, with mostly swine flu-like symptoms. What is important is an increasing rate of infectivity, once the flu enters a concentration of population.

The Obama administration appears to be doing just about everything possible to accelerate the economic conditions which can turn a mild pandemic into a deadly one. Hospitals are being shut down; there is an acute shortage of ventilators; and there will not be a vaccine available until October at the earliest. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a plan of having school nurses handle the spread of the H1N1/9 virus, and only when more than 4 percent of the students contract flu-like symptoms, would a doctor or supervising nurse visit the school, by which time the virus could be cascading through the school.

Since mid-April, 593 Americans have died from the H1N1 virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control.


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