<p>DH and DS stayed at the Hanover Inn last weekend during Freshmen Parent's Weekend. An email from the College today disclosed that a employee has been diagnosed with Swine Flu. They say he is OK but just thought I'd pass it along....</p>
<p>Ahh shoot. haha well at least by the time I matriculate there this fall it’ll all be over or half the world will be dead, and colleges will be shut down anyway :P</p>
<p>Our daughter forwarded the email to us.</p>
<p>Last weekend, we had a delightful time, sitting on the terrace of the Hanover Inn and sipping a drink while looking at the action on the Green. And we wandered all over the hotel, using it as our in-town headquarters (since we were staying at the Marriott). </p>
<p>Interestingly, our '12 daughter went to Dick’s House last Saturday while we were there. Symptoms? Fever, cough, and congestion. I wonder if that was just a coincidence or perhaps…SWINE FLU!</p>
<p>Our family had brunch there last Sunday while visiting our S for first year family weekend. I hope this person was not working in the kitchen or restaurant. Now I am glad we could not get a room there last weekend.</p>
<p>I doubt that someone working in the kitchen would affect you. According to what I’ve read, the infection route is airborne droplets which only have an effective range of about 3 feet.</p>
<p>Now, if the kitchen worker were a typhoid carrier…:D</p>
<p>Disease cannot survive at Hanover’s freezing temperatures.</p>
<p>It was over 80F last weekend. :)</p>
<p>I just got an email from a friend that it was the bellman. Also, I’m sure all parents have seen the message that there are five suspected cases of Dartmouth students with the swine flu. As I mentioned in my post above (semi-jokingly), I think my daughter probably had it last weekend.</p>
<p>It just makes sense that it’s been going around awhile, but because it’s so mild here in the US, nobody really worried much about it.</p>
<p>The bellman? Is there anyone that interacts with guests more? Exchanging car keys again and again…wow!</p>
<p>The bellman would seem ideally placed to spread it.</p>
<p>I was up there for the spring game just this past weekend. We’d planned to stay at the Hanover Inn at first, but decided to take the cheaper(but still nice) courtyard Marriot down the road in lebanon instead. Turned out to be a good decision!</p>
<p>We were up there last weekend as well and did not stay at the Hanover Inn but on Saturday night we drove by and saw that there was a high-school prom going on there, even though they already knew about this employee. We were a bit surprised that they had not canceled or moved the venue.</p>
<p>It turned out that so far at least a few of the students have been dismissed as not having swine flu, just regular sickness with flu-like symptoms.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of a confirmed case yet, but I’ll update when I know more.</p>
<p>SARS… bird flu… swine flu…</p>
<p>all overblown by the media and politicians</p>
<p>lost in all the hysteria is the fact that in any given year, 20-30 thousand people die
from…</p>
<p>the “flu”.</p>
<p>Haha jdjaguar, While this is true, Where’s the fun in approaching it all logically? Letting the media freak out and make fools of themselves is so much more fun… ;)</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com</a> | Students suspected to have swine flu have tested negative for H1N1 virus](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/05/news/fluwu/]TheDartmouth.com”>http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/05/news/fluwu/)</p>
<p>7/8 ‘cases’ have turned out not to be swine flu, while the 8th result is still pending.</p>
<p>The reason, jdjaguar, people are concerned is that many schools have stated that if an outbreak occurs on campus, that they would send everyone home. Who knows what happens to your classes which are 1/2 completed, and Seniors might just have to get their diplomas mailed to them in the mail. All of this would suck.</p>