The university reports today in an emailed update to staff and faculty that there are now more than 120 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus at the Homewood campus. That’s up from 1 case university-wide in early September and 30 on Sept. 16, the last time the school’s numbers were widely reported.
Roughly a half dozen cases have been reported on the East Baltimore campus and none so far at SAIS or the Peabody Institute, according to the email from Charlene Moore Hayes, Vice President for Human Resources.
The update can be found on the school’s H1N1 website which has a wealth of information on the subject, from the extremely useful to the downright doofy.
The useful stuff includes how to recognize flu symptoms and what to do if you have them. The doofy? A glossary of humorous flu-related terms for, presumably, the slang-impaired student. Among them:
Pig: A student ill with suspected or presumed H1N1 flu. (Variation: Piglet: a sick freshman.)
Pig in a blanket: A sick student complying with doctor’s advice to stay home, drink fluids and get plenty of rest.
Pig in a Snuggie: A student complying with doctor’s advice in a blanket with sleeves.
Glazed ham: A pig with fever sweats.
