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  • H1N1 Cases Sweeping U of R 
    Reported by: Evan Axelbank

    Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 @09:03pm EST

    He had all the symptoms.

    "I just had a head cold for about a day, and then Monday, I got a 101.3 temperature around four o'clock in the afternoon," said student Dan Scheinfeld.

    The University of Rochester freshman got swept up in an H1N1 wave.  In September, the chief doctor here says they were seeing a dozen students a week. Last week, they saw seventy.  Today alone? 34.

    "We're asking people to come into work extra hours, to see more patients, make more phone calls," said Dr. Ralph Manchester.

    Students say there's not hysteria, but rather cautiousness. Freshman MacLain Christie got to see how campus doctors are handling things up close.

    "A guy in our hall has been quarantined, and it's a little scary, because he is not allowed to go to classes, and his roommate is afraid, and he's sleeping in my dorm," said Freshman MacLain Christie.

    Thankfully, doctors say the flu circling the University of Rochester hasn't been life threatening.  No students have been hospitalized.  Case-in-point? Scheinfeld is almost fully recovered.

    "Your main priorities are work, and the biggest thing is that it puts you back, you know?" said Scheinfeld.

    Even if the U of R contains this burst of flu, it's likely that Scheinfeld is only among the first group of victims.

    "We're probably going to see one or two more waves come through the U of R student population and I would suspect through the entire Rochester area," said Manchester.
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