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From small pox to swine flu, Yale fights back
Students and faculty members are disappearing. Locked in bedrooms, mouths covered in surgical masks, suspected victims of H1N1, better known as swine flu, can spend as long as a week hidden from the rest of the Yale community.
Swine flu may be the only epidemic our generation of college students will experience first-hand. But Yale, in its 308-year history, has seen far greater pandemics. For the first time, though, the course of the disease is far out of Yale’s hands — not because of any lack of scientific advances — but due to a limited supply of vaccines and a reliance on...
