LSU: What is 'frat flu?' Unknown illness spreading through campus not COVID, mono or flu, says SHC

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What is 'frat flu?' Unknown illness spreading through campus not COVID, mono or flu, says SHC

• Gabby Jimenez & Corbin Ross | @gvjimenezz & @CorbinRoss5
• Oct 17, 2021 Updated Oct 19, 2021

Students all over campus have been experiencing symptoms of coughing, congestion and other cold-like symptoms over the last few weeks on campus— though Student Health Center officials aren't sure what the cause is.

The sickness, though likely a strain of the common cold, has been deemed the "frat flu" by LSU students on Twitter and TikTok, as it's allegedly concentrated among Greek Life.

Many students experiencing the symptoms have been testing negative for COVID-19, mono and the flu, according to Student Health Center Executive Director Julie Hupperich. The university has yet to report one confirmed case of the flu this semester.

There are just 36 active COVID-19 cases on campus as of Oct. 15, according to LSU’s COVID-19 dashboard, as around 80% of the student body is vaccinated.

Hupperich believes the illness going around is likely an unnamed virus working its way through the student body...