Summer Flu, Fall Headaches?

We think that campuses did a good job and showed they were well prepared this spring. With the summer off and the media not as focused on H1N1, are institutions adequately preparing for what might come back to campus this fall?

"If we continue to see outbreaks of H1N1 during the summer, we should prepare for having a lot of influenza in the fall, and that's going to put significant pressure on health services on campuses across the country to respond," said Anita L. Barkin, director of student health services for Carnegie Mellon University, who led a panel about the flu at the American College Health Association's annual meeting in late May. "Even though H1N1 ... is not as virulent or severe as the virus of 1918, when you have a lot of sick people on your campus, it tends to disrupt the day-to-day functioning of campus business."

Read the full report here:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/09/flu