December 16, 2005

How Colleges Can Plan for Bird Flu

By JAMES C. TURNER

Should we cancel all classes for the next semester? Do we need to quarantine our international students from Southeast Asia? Are we going to postpone the summer international program? Is the university stockpiling Tamiflu and flu vaccine? And — God forbid — do we need to cancel football or basketball games?

Colleges and universities will face those and other questions in the event of a global influenza pandemic. Recent media coverage of the worldwide outbreak of

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