Don't Stand So Close to Me.

"'No man is an island,' said Nicholas A. Christakis, a professor of medicine and medical sociology at Harvard Medical School who helped conduct the research. 'Something so personal as a person's emotions can have a collective existence and affect the vast fabric of humanity.'"

Forget H1N1: Psychologists uncover statistical indications that loneliness transmits like a social disease. "Loneliness is not just the property of an individual. It can be transmitted across people -- even people you don't have direct contact with." Hmmm. Well, that explains grad school, then.