Posted: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
RALEIGH In returning to campuses this month, college students are getting a message from university leaders: Don't go to class if you have flu-like symptoms.
For months now, campus officials have been preparing for what they consider inevitable: the arrival, in droves, of students with the H1N1 virus, the pandemic commonly known as swine flu.
“When you have 8,000 students living on campus … you have lots of conditions ripe for spreading communicable disease,” said Jerry Barker, who directs N.C. State University's Student Health Services. “We're trying to make faculty aware that sick students should not come to class.”
The H1N1 symptoms – stuffy or runny nose, body aches, fever, sore throat, chills – are similar to the common, seasonal flu. But the H1N1 virus is new, largely unknown and has no vaccine, though drug makers are scrambling to create one.
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