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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps
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. q; v0 c: o2 @, ~9 g' a! r5 KUpdated: Wed Jul. 15 2009 3:50:08 PM* F! ^! S: Q- y) ~* N G' N
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ctvtoronto.ca+ C3 L8 E; {( o( z& r! T8 _
5 c' ~; X, G+ X$ RThe Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is reporting that 227 young people at three summer camps in cottage country have developed H1N1 flu.
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Dr. Charles Gardner, the district's chief medical officer of health, told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday that the district isn't saying which three camps are involved.
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. N+ C8 n$ {8 g1 L# }The lakeland area of central Ontario covered by the district has 71 registered camps. The three camps involved had 1,275 campers and 480 staff, he said., x d$ l, w7 j- M) H
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The number of infected represents almost one in five campers and almost one in seven camp staffers at the affected camps.
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[+ v( J4 P/ t6 S/ y% ~, ^( i0 kThe cases developed in the past week. All are considered mild, meaning no one required hospitalization, Gardner said.
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"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said.
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7 T( e" S( w: I. R- G xMost of the infected campers have been sent home to recover. Those who can't be sent home for whatever reason are in quarantine.6 k$ V) D9 X- Y* S8 _# O, S
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Gardner said the district is also having all camps tell all parents in writing that "this is an unusual year" -- referring to the outbreak of H1N1, which the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic.
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"They need to be aware of H1N1 influenza, that we've had three outbreaks to date and there's the possibility we could have others," he said.
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Parents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.
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. n& R2 S5 l+ ^% @"Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.+ i2 p' ~( e9 X" M, ?
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Those symptoms include fever, cough, sore throats or a general sense of malaise. "If that's happening within seven days of them coming to a camp, they should not go," he said.
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; U/ O% D) m& ]Gardner said the district thought there could be some outbreaks at camps this summer, given that some cases had occurred in schools.# V5 f! Q4 C6 `) a! ]) o& s
. w- r4 ]0 O) d8 T7 r5 HHowever, normally the district is usually more focused on working with camps to prevent outbreaks of gastroenteric diseases and on injury prevention, he said. |
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