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Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?

Matthew Rivera, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 2, 2009 at 12:59 pm PT

If the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic arrives this fall, one thing that may break under the strain is the Internet. Emergency planners say that school-age children and telecommuting adults could be accessing the network simultaneously, potentially overloading the public Internet’s capacity.