As the Semester Winds Down

The semester is almost over! After spending the past few months studying epidemiology, administration, and environmental health, I could use a little break.

Highlight of the school year? Studying disaster relief, bioterrorism, and the upcoming pandemic. What the heck does that mean?

Have you ever seen "Contagion" with Matt Damon? The movie chronicles the spread of  influenza throughout the modern world, and how the virus pretty much kills everybody, similar to what happened back in 1918, when the Spanish flu went throughout the world killing 50-100 million people.

That's what I've been studying. How to combat pandemics as well as how to prevent things like an anthrax attack.

This has been another subject we've been poring over a lot. The flu is constantly changing, morphing into more difficult to treat and deadly variants of itself. Would we be prepared as a nation to fight off another 1918? I don't know, but it sure makes for some heated class discussion boards.

In the meantime, I'll attempt to finish writing a paper on eating disorders.

Go, grad school!