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- From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: "It's Going Around" - Flu & Viruses
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.162052.6454@cs.rochester.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:20:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan27.162052.6454
- References: <1k6a0eINN75l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
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- In article <1k6a0eINN75l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin) writes:
- >
- >Every now and then, some sorts of "24-hour flu" or short-term virus
- >assails a large number of people in a metro area. I was wondering --
- >do any public-health organizations keep track of these short-term minor
- >illnesses in some way, or do these all come and go with little
- >visibility to the medical profession?
-
- The CDC keeps track of most of these things. Our kid's pediatrician
- always seems to know what's around lately; I suspect that he is part
- of an informal network of pediatricians sharing observations. Of course,
- once a bug is in town for two weeks or so, he'll see a case in his office.
-
- Mark
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- Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester
- Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
-