DURHAM
Around 50 Duke University students a week have been suffering from the flu or flulike symptoms, the university says.
That makes Duke just about normal.
Ninety-eight percent of the 265 colleges and universities nationwide that are being tracked by the American College Health Association reported new cases last week of H1N1 or similar flulike illnesses.
The week before, the percentage was 97 percent.
"We're no better nor worse than anywhere else," said Chris Heltne, director of communications at Student Affairs, which oversees the Duke Health Service. "Just about all of our peer institutions are where we are with the flu. Everybody has it."
The university has had about 50 or so students with the illness every week since the beginning of classes in August, with some minor fluctuations.
The total is an estimate, since Duke bases it not just on the number of students treated by student health, but also on reports from professors who've heard from their students who may have had to miss classes and on how many students have accessed the university's food delivery system.
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