It's a public emergency. I'm sure someone in the University has studied it, so on the Biological Sciences head's advice, I'm going to talk to a professor Olaf Schneewind (with such an excellent name, I'm sure he'll be awesome) for a possible Maroon article.
There are so many unanswered questions: Why hasn't Chicago, with so many people with ties to Mexico, seen an outbreak yet? Is it going to be like the 1918 pandemic, where young, healthy people like myself were the hardest hit? (Although since it killed something like 60 million people, your odds were pretty bad either way.)
More to come.
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Hearing about things like this makes me nervous. I've started to feel sick lately and I think "Oh no I have swine flu!
ReplyDeleteMy friend today described it as a disease you're not likely to get, but if you do you should probably go to the hospital... we got an email about it from the University today. Nothing about outbreaks at U of I, but just a general warning. Still not something you want to think about.
ReplyDeleteSchneewind is terrific... you should check out his video interviews at http://research.uchicago.edu/highlights
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