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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Two Lowell siblings who traveled to Mexico have tested positive for swine flu, marking the disease's first confirmed case in Massachusetts. The boys, ages 8 and 10, have not been to school since returning from Mexico, so it is not likely the virus has spread from them to classmates. Deval Patrick will give a press conference on the matter later this morning.
Bostonist headed over to the Department of Public Health earlier today and found out a thing or two about swine flu. There are still no reported cases of the disease in Massachusetts; the CDC has announced 40 laboratory confirmed cases in the U.S. The DPH has received about two dozen reports of diseases with epidemiology matching that of swine flu. Most of these cases have tested negative, but the department is still investigating some reports.
The Massachusetts Department of Health offers the following information about the recent swine flu outbreak:
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