PSU catches the Flu

Students sick, no cause for alarm Marcus Clem | Copy Editor Jace Erwin got a questionable gift for the holidays: influenza. “I came down with flu toward the end of break,” Erwin, junior in biology, said. “I was out for about a week … Everything was sore and swollen, so I thought I had mononucleosis or staff infection.” Erwin got the flu shot, so his doctor gave him amoxicillin. “They said that the strain of flu I got wasn’t covered by the flu shot I received, but that it was still good that I got a flu shot because it might have been a lot worse.” Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in…