Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Influenza season is up and running again. One of the first Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) reports of influenza for this season was in late summer among 33 persons in a nursing home in southeastern Pennsylvania. Since that time, sporadic cases have occurred. Recently, the DOH reported rising numbers of flu cases throughout the commonwealth, including severe illness in Lehigh Valley. Cases have been caused by the same H1N1 flu that appeared in 2009, as well as other types of flu virus. It's important to know what you can do now to protect yourself and those around you from getting sick. (more)
The flu is a serious respiratory infection that affects millions of people each year and spreads easily through the respiratory droplets of an infected person. Although recovery may take several days, most people recover from the flu (including H1N1 flu) with rest and proper self-care strategies.As the fall semester creeps into its second month, Penn State's medical professionals continue their mission to educate the campus population about how to stay avoid the H1N1 virus this flu season. However, students, faculty and staff may still encounter the illness and should know what to do if they have the flu. (more)
Margaret Spear, director of University Health Services, was up at Paternoville on Thursday, with 200 flu kits to distribute to the students tenting in advance of this weekend's Penn State football game vs. Akron. The kits included information about H1N1, as well as a bottle of hand sanitizer. Spear emphasized to the students that frequent hand-washing is the most effective habit people can perform to help curb the spread of the flu. She added that although it will be challenging, the Centers for Disease Control strongly recommends that sick individuals self-isolate, or stay away from healthy people. For more information on H1N1 and Penn State, visit http://flu.psu.edu online. (more)
Swine flu is no mystery to scientists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who have been keeping a wary eye on the virus in pigs for decades and researching better vaccines to prevent it, methods to limit its spread, and ways to predict and gauge the risks it poses to human health. (more)
With public concern over the outbreak of H1N1 type A influenza (swine flu) growing, Penn State Extension is working with numerous Pennsylvania agricultural and public-health organizations to educate citizens on the virus, its origins, how it is spread and its human- and animal-health impacts. (more)
