"Swine flu parties" are a very bad idea...

The idea is too risky and acting on it could compromise public health – yet talk continues of “swine-flu parties,” where people intentionally mix with friends or others infected with H1N1 influenza.

While people who do this think getting the flu early will serve as more protection from it in the long run, all they’re really doing is endangering themselves and others, says the doctor who runs the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Student Health Service.

“It is a very, very bad idea,” says Walter White, D.O. “It goes against everything medicine and public health are trying to do to encourage social distancing for the infected, and it could hamper efforts to control the disease.” More...

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