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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps
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Updated: Wed Jul. 15 2009 3:50:08 PM
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( a; D d& c% bThe 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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" h0 {$ m4 e1 s2 N& K& ]: EDr. 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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6 Z6 @& r6 [/ V, P5 ^# K. r6 t" a; q8 YThe 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.
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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.) \1 }2 N) j9 F" T+ P8 _ I7 ^
2 V/ Y: Y5 n" S( s- G1 CThe cases developed in the past week. All are considered mild, meaning no one required hospitalization, Gardner said.
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4 s+ ]% k0 C; P( q"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said.
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. g# u' O& l3 QMost of the infected campers have been sent home to recover. Those who can't be sent home for whatever reason are in quarantine.
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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.3 ~0 C/ n; _+ V/ w4 M% n1 M" `
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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.5 k! X v, }( {% b0 ^
; v! q* ]7 C# IParents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.4 u& l' N+ z" x% y$ f9 O$ B1 k1 v
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"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.- d% z9 j% |. c
. ?: y( ~0 q( W6 GGardner said the district thought there could be some outbreaks at camps this summer, given that some cases had occurred in schools.
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5 w! y* f' s8 Z- X2 BHowever, 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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