For decades boozing college students have judged the success of a party partly by the people who end up hovering over the toilet or trashcan.
Now they apparently aren’t the only ones who consider retching a worthwhile endeavor. A BBC report says people have been throwing swine flu parties. The thinking, if you can call it that, is that exposure now will build immunity in advance of winter and a possibly more virulent form of the bug.
Doctors, obviously, say that’s a bad idea. Although the flu is mild and some level of immunity is likely from exposure, it still isn’t pleasant and there’s very much a mortality risk. And intentional exposure kind of interferes with that whole pandemic-containment effort.
Here’s the story.










The 53-year-old New York man is riding from Virginia to Oregon on a
Michael Noble, a Colorado Springs teen who recently received a new kidney, blogs this afternoon that he’s heading home from Aurora after recently receiving his transplant. His new kidney is working great, and he has plans to head to CU-Boulder.