Comments on: Swine Phew! Colleges Work To Keep You Healthy This Fall http://collegecandy.com/2009/08/04/swine-phew-colleges-work-to-keep-you-healthy-this-fall/ Advice on student style, collegiate dating discussion guides, relationship advice and women's studies. Sat, 26 May 2012 07:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: This Little Piggy Isn’t Gettin’ The Flu : College Candy http://collegecandy.com/2009/08/04/swine-phew-colleges-work-to-keep-you-healthy-this-fall/#comment-54626 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:52 +0000 http://collegecandy.com/?p=37001#comment-54626 [...] be so dangerous?  But in all seriousness, swine flu is still among us, and no matter what your college is doing to protect you (read: installing bottles of antibacterial everywhere), we must protect [...]

]]> By: Makeup 101: Add Some Antibacterial To Your Life : College Candy http://collegecandy.com/2009/08/04/swine-phew-colleges-work-to-keep-you-healthy-this-fall/#comment-53775 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:01:59 +0000 http://collegecandy.com/?p=37001#comment-53775 [...] predicting that half of the students will probably get some form of the flu. And that includes the Swine variety. Yikes! If you’re anything like me you’re probably a little worried (Read: freaking out and [...]

]]> By: Jenna http://collegecandy.com/2009/08/04/swine-phew-colleges-work-to-keep-you-healthy-this-fall/#comment-48003 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:05:22 +0000 http://collegecandy.com/?p=37001#comment-48003 According to the Centers for Disease Control, swine flu is absolutely no worse than your everyday, perfectly common human flu (http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm). The symptoms are the same, and the only deaths that occur are in people who would've died from normal flu if they'd gotten it, like babies and such.

Yes, swine flu is a pandemic, but the CDC's guidelines for pandemics are based on how widespread, not how serious, an illness is. Normal flu is a pandemic, and yet there are no action plans for how to deal with it, no quarantines. Same for the common cold.

This is just another case of the media blowing an issue out of proportion and creating mass, unnecessary panic. Just like Bird Flu or West Nile Virus.

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