Below is the flyer being circulated by PHEs (Peer Health Educators) via dorm email lists, etc.
What do you think:
Is this an acceptable response to the threat of swine flu on a college campus? Too much/too little?
How is it similar to the efforts to contain other virulent diseases, and how is it different?
-Molly
honestly I think that a lot of containing swine flu is the same as for any other disease and these kind of things like washing your hands, disinfecting silverware, and general hygiene should be common sense. Unfortunately, college kids aren't great at that, and that is how sickness spreads like wildfire within dorms. The PHE response has been going on forever, I know I always got reminders to the effect of washing hands, etc. But no one paid them much attention. This swine flu outbreak just makes us more aware of habits that we should integrate into our daily lives.
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