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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps
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Updated: Wed Jul. 15 2009 3:50:08 PM0 Z8 Z0 `4 }, c1 z( e" S* w3 x/ T
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% R& L# h0 p+ T; tThe 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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5 v u$ c I( e, G7 s$ ]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.; K: @% @: o' a3 u! B6 d
- h6 z: ]2 ~' l/ QThe 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.8 Y* j! J: r. @( }5 \
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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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The cases developed in the past week. All are considered mild, meaning no one required hospitalization, Gardner said." \1 z# c: p" g/ V$ u- \9 U' P
' k+ w- ~6 C5 m) _"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said.3 O0 V/ n# H: N3 J* D z( u
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Most of the infected campers have been sent home to recover. Those who can't be sent home for whatever reason are in quarantine." g u6 I8 }: ^( _# d: J* }1 ]
S- Z" @ m( L! Y2 k- jGardner 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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. u6 o ]2 I( m& V6 dParents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.0 f) E! n" N' y1 j2 d T- K
$ k, x# n2 Z, |"Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.
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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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5 E0 W3 v$ Z. KGardner said the district thought there could be some outbreaks at camps this summer, given that some cases had occurred in schools.& s6 P+ [# d4 r2 V/ u) {
* c4 \ |0 Q- u' kHowever, 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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