H1N1

The American Federation of Government Employees is pressing its case on face masks and other precautions for federal employees who are at risk of exposure to the H1N1 virus. The latest cause for concern? The baby of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee who works at a Miami center where six of her colleagues have been diagnosed with a flu has come down with H1N1. It isn't clear to me that the baby's parent, an ICE agent, is one of the six cases at the center, or if the baby necessarily contracted H1N1 via contact with either the parent or anyone else who works at the center. But it is an unfortunate reminder that even if adults with access to good medical care are healthy enough for H1N1 not to be a risk, they almost certainly all have contact with people who are much more vulnerable, and whose health is much more fragile.