Students, Wash Your Hands!

[Columbia_Student]

<p>It’s stabilizing, but no hugs for a while</p>

<p>[Stomach</a> virus outbreak at USC may have peaked - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uscflu7-2008oct07,0,2555854.story]Stomach”>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uscflu7-2008oct07,0,2555854.story)</p>

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Dr. Lawrence Neinstein, executive director of the health center on USC’s main University Park campus, said the number of students seeking medical care appeared to be declining Sunday and today after the initial reports of illness on Friday and Saturday. “The trend is good,” he said, noting it was too early to say anything more definitive.

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Symptoms of the virus are short-lived, lasting one to two days. However, Neinstein stressed that students still can be contagious for several days after they feel better. So officials urged ill students or those who have had contact with them to avoid socializing and recommended that everyone wash their hands frequently.
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The outbreak, he said, is making students less likely to greet each other with hugs or to share food.

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