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...Tuesday in late April. He was at his high school in Cibolo, Texas, just outside San Antonio, when he came down with a fever of 103°F (39°C) and felt nauseated. Three days later, his doctor confirmed he had a mysterious new strain of swine flu that had just hit the U.S. - a virus that would eventually be labeled H1N1 of 2009. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Live with Fear of the Flu | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...memoirs. "Everywhere there were guarded talks and whispers of fever, blood-spitting and sudden deaths, of corpses abandoned by roadsides and open fields." He introduced the practices of wearing face masks, cremating infected corpses and observing strict quarantine - methods used today to fight pandemics such as SARS and swine flu and even a small outbreak of pneumonic plague in Qinghai province in July. My great-grandfather implemented these measures despite -22?F (-30?C) temperatures, decrepit facilities, traditional preferences for land burials and - what he found most worrisome - the fatalism of local residents. His initiatives worked. Within four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Journey | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

After the swine flu epidemic dissipates, the University plans to turn the phone number into a hotline for other "major issues of interest to the Harvard community," as the website says...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: FlyBy Got Harvard's Number! | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Harvard hasn't made it possible for you to do your child's laundry or ensure that they are in bed by 9:30 every night, but the University can now soothe your every worry about the biggest crisis to hit Harvard since we ran out of money - swine...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: FlyBy Got Harvard's Number! | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...automated male voice directed us to check out harvard.edu/h1n1 for information about the University's swine flu policies. If that didn't help, we were given five choices to pick from based...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: FlyBy Got Harvard's Number! | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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