Officials have stopped calling swine flu "swine flu," switching instead to the disease's more official (but less catchy) moniker, H1N1, which better reflects its multipart human, avian, and porcine origins. Officials (at Northeastern, at least) have also issued a moratorium on handshakes in the interest of stopping spread of the disease. H1N1 may have spread to Boston and now there are six "probable" cases in Amherst as well as two in Brockton. When will it end?
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