Figuring out how flu gets around [Effect Measure]

Published: July 31, 2007, 8:35 am

One reason Helen Branswell is such a good flu reporter is she has the best contacts. Of course this is a chicken-and-egg proposition, because she has the best contacts because she is the best flu reporter. She gets it right and she explains it the way it was told to her. [By the way, I am not on her payroll. In fact she is uncomfortable about being praised. But I don't do it for her sake. She doesn't need it anyway. My motive is to show other reporters what good flu reporting is and encourage them to do the same. And there are a number of other excellent reporters, which I try to acknowledge when I can. They are one of our most important sources of information.] This doesn't mean everything told to Branswell is correct, but at least you know it didn't come over a noisy communication channel. One of her recent stories I liked least (and didn't discuss here) was also one of her more popular, the one about flu virus in mucus remaning viable for up to 17 days on banknotes. Why didn't I

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