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Swine flu parties. by Zsenitan 05/19/2009, 9:10am PDT Dr. Anne Moscona, a flu specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College, said she had been called by a reporter for a women’s magazine “asking if mothers should hold swine flu parties, like chicken pox parties.” (“Chicken pox parties” — in which children gather so they can all be infected by a child who has the pox — are often held by parents who distrust chicken pox vaccine or want their children to have the stronger immunity that surviving a full-blown infection affords, and are willing to take the risk that their child will not get serious complications.) We learn also that the NYT does not have its former command of the English language.

Swine flu parties. by Zsenitan 05/19/2009, 9:10am PDT