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Wear it: Students across campus are

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The Livestrong bracelet.
(PHOTO BY AMANDA LEE MYERS/STATE PRESS MAGAZINE)

Yellow fever is sweeping campus.

Before you jump on the phone with the Student Health Center or try to evacuate your dorm, calm down. It's not the disease taking over lecture halls -- it's a tiny strip of yellow rubber that might just change the world.

The yellow "Live Strong" bracelets wrapped around students' wrists across campus is the new way to beat cancer. By contributing a single dollar, the cost of a bracelet, you can help provide cancer survivors and sufferers with the information and support they need to continue living strong, according to www.wearyellow.com.

The proceeds from the sale of these bracelets benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Armstrong created this organization after he was diagnosed with cancer in 1996 because of his belief that "knowledge is power and attitude is everything."

In 1999, three years after he was diagnosed, he won his first of six Tour de France championship titles.

There is a special meaning behind sophomore Amber La Freniere's purchase of the Live Strong wristband.

"One of my really good friends from home has cancer, so I wanted to support it because there is a little more meaning [for me]," she said.

The Live Strong bracelets come in both youth and adult sizes and can be purchased in orders of 10,100 and 1,200.

These little rubber bracelets are helping 10 million Americans living with cancer. For once, it's a good thing a trend is spreading like fever.

Reach the reporter at Courtney.Bonnell@asu.edu.


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