Swine Flu in School?
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>var collab_title = 'Swine Flu in School?';</SCRIPT>Kim Garner
August 18, 2009Monday, we reported that the Tuscaloosa County School system still had no confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu. However, after our segment aired, several parents with children in the school system called in to say that was not the case. One parent claimed her son, a student at Davis-Emerson Middle School, was currently at home, sick with swine flu.
But Tuscaloosa County school officials say they have still not received any confirmation from the Alabama Department of Public Health on those cases.
Tuscaloosa County school nurses say local doctors cannot actually test for swine flu. When a child visits a doctor with flu-like symptoms, the doctor does tests to determine the flu strain and course of treatment; however, in order to detect whether or not the influenza is actually swine flu, those results must be sent off for further testing. As of right now, school officials say none of those results have confirmed a case of swine flu in the Tuscaloosa County School system.
According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, the state has1125 confirmed cases of swine flu. Fourteen of those confirmed cases are in Tuscaloosa County. The Department of Public Health says there has only been one confirmed swine flu related death in the state.
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<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>var collab_title = 'Swine Flu in School?';</SCRIPT>Kim Garner
August 18, 2009Monday, we reported that the Tuscaloosa County School system still had no confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu. However, after our segment aired, several parents with children in the school system called in to say that was not the case. One parent claimed her son, a student at Davis-Emerson Middle School, was currently at home, sick with swine flu.
But Tuscaloosa County school officials say they have still not received any confirmation from the Alabama Department of Public Health on those cases.
Tuscaloosa County school nurses say local doctors cannot actually test for swine flu. When a child visits a doctor with flu-like symptoms, the doctor does tests to determine the flu strain and course of treatment; however, in order to detect whether or not the influenza is actually swine flu, those results must be sent off for further testing. As of right now, school officials say none of those results have confirmed a case of swine flu in the Tuscaloosa County School system.
According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, the state has1125 confirmed cases of swine flu. Fourteen of those confirmed cases are in Tuscaloosa County. The Department of Public Health says there has only been one confirmed swine flu related death in the state.
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