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POSSIBLE H1N1 OUTBREAK AT A VANCOUVER ISLAND BOARDING SCHOOL
Sep 22, 2009
SPORTING EVENTS, CAMPUS SOCIALS, AND EVEN A MAJOR FUNDRAISING EVENT HAVE ALL BEEN CANCELED AT A VANCOUVER ISLAND SCHOOL AS THEY COULD BE FACING AN H1N1 OUTBREAK.
ABOUT 450 STUDENTS FROM 28 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ATTEND SHAWNIGAN LAKE BOARDING SCHOOL...AND PARENTS ARE GETTING CONCERNED AS ALMOST 100 STUDENTS HAVE FALLEN ILL SINCE SCHOOL BEGAN ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.
HEADMASTER DAVID ROBERTSON TOLD "A" NEWS THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING THIS...
"this flu season came pretty quickly and in a sense struck a larger number of the kids than we expected."
IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THE ILLNESS IS INFLUENZA "A" BUT THE SCHOOL IS STILL WAITING TO FIND OUT IF THE STRAIN OF IT IS H1N1.
"that's actually been a little bit of a frustration for us because we were told we'd have that last Friday and it's still not here, so we swabbed another couple yesterday and we still haven't had those results back either."
MEANWHILE THEY ARE DISINFECTING THE SCHOOL AND HAVE ISOLATED SOME STUDENTS.
BRENTWOOD COLLEGE HAS ALSO HAD A RECENT OUTBREAK OF FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AND IS KEEPING IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH ROBERTSON.
THE COLLEGE HAS ISOLATED NEARLY TWO DOZEN STUDENTS.
Sep 22, 2009
SPORTING EVENTS, CAMPUS SOCIALS, AND EVEN A MAJOR FUNDRAISING EVENT HAVE ALL BEEN CANCELED AT A VANCOUVER ISLAND SCHOOL AS THEY COULD BE FACING AN H1N1 OUTBREAK.
ABOUT 450 STUDENTS FROM 28 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ATTEND SHAWNIGAN LAKE BOARDING SCHOOL...AND PARENTS ARE GETTING CONCERNED AS ALMOST 100 STUDENTS HAVE FALLEN ILL SINCE SCHOOL BEGAN ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.
HEADMASTER DAVID ROBERTSON TOLD "A" NEWS THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING THIS...
"this flu season came pretty quickly and in a sense struck a larger number of the kids than we expected."
IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THE ILLNESS IS INFLUENZA "A" BUT THE SCHOOL IS STILL WAITING TO FIND OUT IF THE STRAIN OF IT IS H1N1.
"that's actually been a little bit of a frustration for us because we were told we'd have that last Friday and it's still not here, so we swabbed another couple yesterday and we still haven't had those results back either."
MEANWHILE THEY ARE DISINFECTING THE SCHOOL AND HAVE ISOLATED SOME STUDENTS.
BRENTWOOD COLLEGE HAS ALSO HAD A RECENT OUTBREAK OF FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AND IS KEEPING IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH ROBERTSON.
THE COLLEGE HAS ISOLATED NEARLY TWO DOZEN STUDENTS.