A few years back, researchers were excited to hear about the spread of a contagion in World of Warcraft. The excitement came because Blizzard's logs could potentially provide a complete picture of the spread of the disease, something that's not generally possible in the real world. But, thanks to a town identified only as "a semirural community in Pennsylvania," researchers may have their best glimpse yet: every H1N1 flu case that was reported in an elementary school, supplemented by details as fine-grained as classroom seating charts.
As the outbreak swept through the community, the Pennsylvania Department of Health's H1N1 working group gathered demographic and clinical information on over 80 percent of the students in the school, then extended out into their households, obtaining information on a total of 1,269 individuals (370 of them students). A full 35 percent of the students reported acute respiratory illness during the study period, as did over 15 percent of the general population.
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