flu

We’re the sickest school ever!

Posted by Lizzie on Feb 08, 2008 - 05:08 pm

Wake Forest is the big winner of the Tobacco Road Flu Epidemic challenge. Go Deacs!

U.S. News and World Report’s Web site notes an “outbreak of outbreaks” of influenza on college campuses around the country. They’ve got bad cases at Duke, Chapel Hill and NC State, too, “but apparently none worse than” us. Two-hundred and sixty people were diagnosed here in ten days. That means that someone was diagnosed every 55 minutes. So look around the room at the end of class. If the other kids in there don’t have the flu, chances are you do.

But at least we’re not Kansas State, where they’ve had 2,000 students with it at the health center in three weeks. You can read about more schools being infested with sick people ... No. Stop reading this and go get a flu shot.

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Flu Still Strong in NC

Posted by Kelly on Feb 21, 2008 - 05:35 pm

According to the Winston Salem Journal, the flu epidemic that hit Wake Forest in the past month has not shown any signs of slowing down.  Across the state the cases have risen for the third week in a row, up from 5.2 percent last week.

The N.C. Division of Public Health reported that nearly 5.7 percent of patients examined by the 76 participants in the N.C. Influenza Sentinel Surveillance program had flu symptoms during the week that ended Feb. 16.

Flu vaccinations are still available and can be found in the ‘alerts’ section at www.nccarelink.gov

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