Yale treating a student for Ebola like symptoms

[Sue22]

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Plus, I’m not sure what you meant about being more worried about your kid getting the flu than Ebola, but the people who are actually at risk for dying are babies less than 6 months old and the elderly. Vaccine or not, your kid was never in any danger of anything more than a bad weekend from the common flu.

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<p>Collegealum314,
Influenza can be very dangerous in young adults, not just the very old and very young. From one of last year’s CDC influenza reports:</p>

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The number of influenza deaths during the current season (through February 8, 2014) among persons aged 18-64 years (352) exceeds the 138 deaths reported for that age group for the entire 2012-13 influenza surveillance season (September 30, 2012-September 28, 2013). This age group has accounted for approximately 62% of all influenza-associated deaths already this season, compared with 47% in 2010-11, 30% in 2011-12, and 18% in 2012-13…The more severe impact of pH1N1 on adults aged 18-64 years seen this season and during the pandemic is thought to result from at least two factors. First, persons in this age group likely lack the cross-protective immunity to pH1N1 seen in adults aged ≥65 years, which was likely acquired from past infection with antigenically related viruses (4). Second, preliminary vaccination coverage estimates for this season indicate that by early November 2013, adults aged 18-64 years had been vaccinated against influenza at a rate substantially lower (33.9%; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 31.9%-35.9%) than those aged 6 months-17 years

<a href=“http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0220-flu-report.html”>http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0220-flu-report.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[Gator88NE]

<p>Harvard Tightens Travel Restrictions as Ebola Outbreak Worsens</p>

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Harvard affiliates wishing to travel on University business to the countries most affected by Ebola must now obtain the approval of University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and their respective School dean, according to a new set of guidelines the University disseminated on Friday.</p>

<p>Unrelated to that approval process, the new policy also mandates that any Harvard affiliate returning from Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia must complete a medical screening with Harvard University Health Services before arriving on campus. Travelers could also be asked to stay away from campus for 21 days, the length of the virus’s incubation period.

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<p><a href=“Harvard Tightens Travel Restrictions as Ebola Outbreak Worsens | News | The Harvard Crimson”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/20/harvard-tightens-travel-restrictions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[romanigypsyeyes]

<p>This is why I hate when people call small viruses or a common cold “the flu”. The real flu feels like death and if you’ve ever had it, you’ll never call an upset stomach the flu again. </p>

[vamominvabeach]

<p>I wish it was only a bad weekend with the flu. I caught the swine flu several years ago in my late 30’s and was very ill for over a week. Caught the flu two years ago in my early 40’s and was extremely ill for about 3 weeks and lost over 10 pounds! I am otherwise a very healthy person. After that bought two years ago I understood how it could kill. </p>

[Consolation]

<p>Yeah, the last time I had the flu I lay on top of my bed fully dressed for three days before I could summon the energy to
get undressed, put on a nightgown, and get into bed. </p>

[HImom]

<p>Food poisoning and the flu are both very wretched. I am glad that for me, Tamiflu has been a wonder drug and made it much easier to continue to function and REALLY cut short three times when I was just starting the flu so it wouldn’t set off my chronic health issues as well.</p>

<p>I remember once when our entire family had the flu and none of us could summon the strength to prepare meals or do much other than lie down where we were and wait for it to pass–took about a week. It was just before the holidays and the kids were very unhappy that we had no tree. I finally recovered first and rushed out to buy whatever I could–turned out to be an artificial tree which the kids sniffed at but it made our house more festive (wouldn’t have had anything otherwise).</p>

[collegealum314]

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[Gator88NE]

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Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison who warned about the panicked overreactions on some campuses, has helped the American College Health Association update its own recommendations. He feels that travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone should be curtailed, not only because of the risks to those traveling, but also because of the possible legal and financial consequences for universities.

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<p><a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/As-Ebola-Fears-Touch-Campuses/149491/”>http://chronicle.com/article/As-Ebola-Fears-Touch-Campuses/149491/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[donnaleighg]

<p>I was the one who said I was more worried about the flu than Ebola, and it was more because I’ve had the flu once, and as others have said, it is completely debilitating. She is a senior, taking five classes, writing a thesis, and trying to figure out what she wants to do when she graduates. To put it mildly, I don’t think the flu would be a good thing to add to the mix. Not to discount that it can also be a serious disease in its own right. </p>