Word: flu
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...director Wolfgang Petersen on the Gail, but the ship was rocking back and forth so badly that the cast and crew were not at their peak. Mark Wahlberg looked as gray as a ghost from vomiting throughout the morning, while George Clooney was recovering from a bout of the flu. During a lunch break, Ressner spoke to Petersen, who happily chomped away at a boxed lunch of chicken as the mock swordfish ship swayed like a toy boat in a bathtub...
...first-year who just had a nasty case of the blocking flu, the Yale system of residential housing seems like the perfect remedy...
...Avalon dance floor. So much for being restrained unnecessarily. Dining hall fare gets old pretty fast, and a college budget often precludes the local options for more haute cuisine. The word "deprived" certainly comes to mind. Dorm and house life is notorious for the fast spread of disease: Cold, flu and mono all come with the territory. And what of being left in one's own feces? Surely that is beyond the realm of the typical Harvard undergrad. Sadly, even at one of the nation's finest institutions of higher learning, students sometimes wake up after a night of heavy...
...stay home from school or day care. While some of those kids are seriously ill, a fairly large percentage simply need to be isolated to prevent the spread of minor illnesses such as pinkeye and chicken pox. Or they need one more fever-free day after a bout of flu or strep throat before returning to school or day care. "In a perfect world, you wouldn't give it a thought. You'd stay home," says Gail Johnson, immediate past president of the National Association for Sick Child Day Care. "But in the real world, when you went back...
...prevention. The first order of business: the chicken-pox vaccine. It's not 100% effective, but at the very least it shortens the illness, which can last a week or more. And even toddlers can learn good hygiene: besides cutting down on colds, your family may also dodge the flu, which strikes roughly half the school-age population in any given year. Clean hands and plenty of tissues have worked for our friend Elizabeth, who is rarely sick--despite what the school nurse thinks...