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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009
NEWS
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die as a result of serious flu-related conditions such as pneumonia.
"Flu season is making a slow start this year. It usually wraps up in February." Porcell said. According to the CDC, last year's flu season peaked in March.
While doctors recommend patients receive vaccinations in September, this year's delayed flu season has Denning telling her patients to get one now.
"it's much cheaper than becoming ill in the classroom" she said
Ben Leach, Overland Park senior, said he had been sick since last week with flu like symptoms.
"I usually never get sick and I got a flu shot," Leach said. "So this is very unusual."
Leach said he received a flu shot every year around Thanksgiving, but still managed to get sick after his girlfriend had the same symptoms.
"You guys at the university level should get it," Porcell said of the flu shot. "You're germ spreaders."
According to the CDC's Web site, some viruses and bacteria can survive 2 hours or more on surfaces such as tables, doorknobs, and desks.
"I always wash my hands," Joey Williams, Denver junior, said. Williams has been sick since this past weekend. He said he has been able to keep up with classes and work despite feeling ill.
Williams said he thought his illness originated from a lack of sleep and exposure to large groups of people. Though Williams has had flu shots in past years, he said he didn't get around to it this season.
Flu viruses are continually evolving, and a person's antibodies may not recognize the new virus, which means a person can contract the flu more than once. According to the CDC, vaccines are usually updated yearly to account for new virus strands.
Denning said that many students needed antiviral medication once they contracted the flu. Some of these medications, such as Tamiflu, are effective against new strands of flu viruses.
Signs and Symptoms
cold and flu traits
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Fever/Chills
Headache
General Aches and Pains
Fatigue/Weakness
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Denning said Watkins offered
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"Antiviral medications will only lessen symptoms by one day," Denning said, but they can also minimize contagiousness. She said antiviral medications would be prescribed only on an individual basis, in order to discourage antiviral resistance.
Usual; Can be high fever
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Usual; Affects body all over
Usual; Often severe
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medications at cheaper rates than other pharmacies, but the price of antiviral medication could still be as much as $110, depending on a student's medical insurance.
Watkins offers flu shots for $15 and a nasal mist vaccine for $10. Denning said students should call in advance for an appointment, before they get sick.
Denning said that people with the flu should stay at home and avoid contaminating others as
much as possible. If they have to go out, they should carry tissues with them, cover their noses and mouths with their elbows when coughing and sneezing, and wash their hands frequently. Healthy students should to do their best to stay as such by getting enough rest, paying attention to their nutrition and refraining from smoking and drinking.
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research on ways to spur growth in third-world countries.
"The conventional wisdom is that entrepreneurship leads to innovation, which leads to economic growth." Frazelle said.
Dawn Marie Guernsey, professor of art, said economics and creativity came together in arts education, which prepared students for the kind of creative business thinking that Frazelle and Wing said was so important.
Guernsey also said artists aimed to introduce ideas for solving national problems like the economic downturn in their work.
"Artists are the weather vanes for the times and the eyes and the ears of culture," Gurmzey said.
The lecture series opens tonight with a talk by New York visual artist Chakata Booker at 7:30 in Spooner Hall.
INTERNATIONAL
— Edited by Casey Miles
French professor accused of genocide
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Rwandan professor Leopold Munyakaki shows documents he says prove he wasn't involved in the 1994 genocide in his home country, in an interview on Monday. Munyakaki was recently removed from teaching French at Goucher College after the school became aware he was wanted in his home country on genocide charges.
BALTIMORE — A Rwandan professor has been suspended with pay from teaching French at Goucher College while officials there investigate claims that he was involved in the 1994 genocide in his home country.
College President Sanford Ungart told faculty and students in an e-mail Saturday that Professor Leopold Munyakazi was removed from teaching after officials learned he had been indicted in 2006 on genocide charges in Rwanda.
More than a half-million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 1994 after the then-president's plane was shot down as he returned from negotiating with Tutsi rebels.
Munyakazi, a Hutu, said in an interview Monday at his home that he has been persecuted by the Rwandan government because his wife is tutsi and he protected her and her family during the killings.
"I'm not hiding, I was never involved in genocide," Munyakazi said. "In my conscience, I am free of any guilt."
Munyakaki said Goucher sent him a letter Dec. 15 stating he was suspended with pay and it would be best if he staved off campus.
Ungar said in the e-mail that he removed Munyakazi from his teaching duties because the allegations are so serious, but the removal "in no way reflects a judgment about Dr. Munyakazi or about the charges that have been made."
The accusations came to Unger's attention in December when he was approached by an NBC News producer working on a story that involved Munyakazi.
"Some people knew that he had expressed controversial views," Ungar said in an interview Monday. "But in colleges and universities you don't think it's a bad thing to express controversial views. Nobody knew there were charges of that nature."
He said a U.S. Justice Department official stressed to him that an indictment in Rwanda is a statement of a prosecutor's views, not the result of a grand jury proceeding. Officials in Rwanda
were not available for comment.
"Evidence that would either convict or exonerate Dr. Munyakazi beyond a reasonable doubt simply does not exist at this time, or if it does, I have not seen it," Ungar said.
Munyakazi started teaching in September at Goucher College. He was contracted for two semesters through the Scholar Rescue Fund, which provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their countries.
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GOVERNMENT Daschle fights to salvage shot at Cabinet post
President Barack Obama said he was "absolutely" sticking with his nominee for health secretary, and a key senator added an important endorsement.
WASHINGTON — Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Dashle pleaded his case Monday evening in a closed meeting with former Senate colleagues after publicly apologizing for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.
The White House both underscored the magnitude of the problem and tried to downplay
it in the space of seven words.
"Nobody's perfect," said press secretary Robert Gibbs. "It was a serious mistake..."
Nobody was predicting defeat for Daschle's nomination as secretary of health and human services, but it was proving an unsavory pill to swallow for senators who only last week confirmed Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary despite his separate tax-payment problems. It's an issue that strikes a nerve among lawmakers' constituents who are struggling with their own serious money problems.
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Fun with the other hoop
Caitlin Hornbeck, Lawrence native, enjoys Saturday hula-hooping in South Park. Hornbeck is a member of the Hop Mamas, a troupe of local mothers who get together once a week to hula met. Hornbeck said hooping was both a form of exercise and expression. The troupe met outside Saturday to enjoy Lawrence's 70-degree weather.
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