Local Students Test Positive For H1N1 In Italy

[HenryN]

Jun 7, 2009 4:12 pm US/Eastern
Local Students Test Positive For H1N1 In Italy

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A quarantine order was lifted today on four Duquesne University students who came down with H1N1 flu virus while traveling abroad in Italy.

Officials with the university say one of the students was hospitalized.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, eight students were traveling with a university opera professor and three other people when one of the students got sick near Rome.

The Post-Gazette reports three other students then became ill. School officials say other than the girl who was treated at the hospital; the other students who tested positive for the virus were quarantined to their room at a hotel.

The students are expected back here in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, the PG reports.

Officials say the group was treated with Tamiflu.

Stay with KDKA for more on this developing story.

http://kdka.com/local/Duquesne.University.H1N1.2.1034985.html

[HenryN]

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Italy Lifts Quarantine On 4 Duquesne University Students

1 Duquesne Univ. Student Test Positive For H1N1; 3 Others Fall Ill

POSTED: 5:04 pm EDT June 7, 2009
UPDATED: 5:23 pm EDT June 7, 2009


<SCRIPT type=text/javascript src="/js/13260191/script.js"></SCRIPT><LINK rel=stylesheet type=text/css href="/css/13260803/style.css"><!--startindex-->PITTSBURGH -- A quarantine of four Duquesne University students visiting Italy who fell ill was lifted Sunday after one of the students tested positive for the H1N1 virus.
University spokeswoman Bridget Fare told WTAE Channel 4 Action News that the students left on May 23 with a group of eight Duquesne students, two high school students, an adult student and a Duquesne University opera professor.
Fare said an unnamed female student fell ill outside of Rome and tested positive for the H1N1 virus and was hospitalized. It was not immediately known whether she was hospitalized due to symptom severity or whether it was a precautionary measure. She was released from a hospital a few days after admittance.
Subsequently, three other students fell ill with the flu but they did not require hospitalization and instead were quarantined in their hotel rooms.
Doctors have reported that the symptoms were mild and the students affected have recovered.
Everyone in the group was given Tamiflu to fight symptoms or to prevent the flu. The rest of the members of the group continued on with the academic portions of their visit, but a group performance was postponed as a precaution.
The group is scheduled to return to Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/health/19684045/detail.html

[HenryN]

Re: Local Students Test Positive For H1N1 In Italy

Since the story in Italy indicates the student developed symptoms on May 24, it seems that the infection was in Pittsburgh since she left Pittsburgh on May 23.

[HenryN]

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4 Duquesne U. students have swine flu in Italy
Sunday, June 07, 2009
By Mary Niederberger, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Four Duquesne University students visiting Italy with an opera group have been quarantined for the past several days with swine flu, but the quarantine was lifted today.
Duquesne spokeswoman Bridget Fare said the students were in a group of eight university students and three others traveling with a Duquesne opera professor, whose name was not released, and were in an area outside of Rome when a female student became ill.
That student tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus and was hospitalized. Subsequently three other students fell ill with the flu but did not require hospitalization. All members of the group were given the medication Tamiflu to either fight the symptoms or prevent the flu.
The students who tested positive were quarantined in their hotel room, Ms. Fare said.
The others in the group were able to continue with their activities, which included attending classes and taking side trips. However, the group canceled a performance that had been scheduled.
Ms. Fare said Italian medical authorities lifted the quarantine today. The group was expected home on a flight Tuesday.

Mary Niederberger can be reached at mniederberger@post-gazette.com or 412-851-1512.
First published on June 7, 2009 at 12:25 pm



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[HenryN]

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Duequense has a general notice up on swine flu but nothing about the student who was identified as H1N1 infected just after arriving in Italy

http://www.newsroom.duq.edu/r20090429-swine.html

[HenryN]

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4 Duquesne University Students Sick With Swine Flu Overseas

Posted: 7:37 pm EDT June 7, 2009Updated: 8:12 pm EDT June 7, 2009
<!--startindex-->PITTSBURGH -- Duquesne University confirmed on Sunday that four of its students were quarantined in Italy with the H1N1 Virus, also known as swine flu.
According to the university, 11 students were attending an opera study program in Italy, just outside of Rome.
There were eight students from Duquesne, two high school students and one adult student.
Shortly after they arrived on May 23, one of the students fell ill. Doctors confirmed that she had H1N1 and hospitalized her.
It's not clear whether she was hospitalized due to the severity of the symptoms, or whether it was a precautionary measure. She was treated and released a few days later. It is unclear when or where she contracted the illness.
A few days after that, three more students showed similar symptoms and were also diagnosed with H1N1.
Those students were asked to stay in their rooms for five days, and they were treated with Tamiflu.
As a precaution, even though none of the other students presented symptoms, the doctors asked the other students to take Tamiflu.
The doctors have since cleared the group for travel and have said that the ill students have recovered.
The university has elected to bring the students home as early as possible after the doctors cleared the group to travel. The doctors cleared them Sunday.
The first tickets available to return the students were on Tuesday.
The students' names were not released. <!--stopindex-->http://www.wpxi.com/news/19685522/detail.html

[HenryN]

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4 Duquesne University Students Sick With Swine Flu Overseas

Posted: 7:37 pm EDT June 7, 2009Updated: 8:12 pm EDT June 7, 2009
<!--startindex-->PITTSBURGH --
There were eight students from Duquesne, two high school students and one adult student.
Shortly after they arrived on May 23, one of the students fell ill. Doctors confirmed that she had H1N1 and hospitalized her.
It's not clear whether she was hospitalized due to the severity of the symptoms, or whether it was a precautionary measure. She was treated and released a few days later. It is unclear when or where she contracted the illness.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/19685522/detail.html

Since she developed symptoms "shortly after they arrived", it is likely that she was infected in Pittsburgh and was detected at the airport in Rome when she landed.

[Dark Horse]

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After reading Revere's family's ordeal with the new flu, I hope, Dr. Niman, that your daughters are not caught up in this mess.

[somebodyoutthere]

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Since she developed symptoms "shortly after they arrived", it is likely that she was infected in Pittsburgh and was detected at the airport in Rome when she landed.

Is it at all possible that she picked it up during her travel from the US to Italy, or is that not enough time to develop symptoms?

[HenryN]

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Is it at all possible that she picked it up during her travel from the US to Italy, or is that not enough time to develop symptoms?

I think that the simplest interpretation of the media reports is that the location outside of Rome is the airport, and her fever was picked up as she tried to enter Italy. If so, she woiuld have been infected in the US, and was probably infected at school. She then infected three students during or just before the flight and they tested positive when contacts were checked in Italy, but had milder disease because they started Tamiflu earlier.

[HenryN]

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After reading Revere's family's ordeal with the new flu, I hope, Dr. Niman, that your daughters are not caught up in this mess.

I put up Revere's post, but it was pulled because I mentioned the location, which is an area where swine flu is VERY high, and although many know his identity, it is still suppposed to be a secret (although his city of residence really isn't that much of a clue).

In any event, none of my daughters play against Duquesne!

As far as Revere is concerned, the post I put up emphasized the fact that the attack rate within his family appeared to be 100&#37; and there was also plenty of H1N1 at the day care center, but NONE was reported. He can't even say for certain that his family was infected, but the odds are EXTREMELY high that all family members, including those with relatively mild symptoms, were infected with swine H1N1.

His post also included the graph from the latest CDC seasonal flu report, which shows the hockey stick representing the % positive cases (in spite of limited testing).

[HenryN]

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4 Duquesne students in Italy get swine flu

By The Tribune-Review

Monday, June 8, 2009
Eleven Duquesne University students are expected to return from an opera trip to Italy two days early because four of them contracted swine flu, a university spokeswoman said Sunday.
One female student grew ill and was hospitalized with the H1N1 flu virus soon after the trip to Rome began around May 22 or 23, said university spokeswoman Bridget Fare. She did not immediately know the exact date that the trip, originally scheduled to conclude June 11, began.
Fare said the student recovered and was released a few days later. Then three other students contracted the flu. Italian health officials quarantined those students to their hotel rooms through yesterday. All of the participants have been taking Tamiflu to fight or prevent the virus, she added.
While the students completed their academic work, a performance was canceled and they are expected to fly to Pittsburgh Tuesday.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/print_628575.html

[HenryN]

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Pa. college students in Italy found with swine flu


The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - Four students from Pittsburgh's Duquesne University are returning home after being quarantined and treated for swine flu while on a school trip to Italy.
University spokeswoman Bridget Fare says the students were among a group of 11 traveling near Rome with the head of the school's voice department. They are returning to Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
Fare says the names of the students will not be released. She says the students were doing academic work and were scheduled to perform. The show was canceled.
She says the group left Pittsburgh sometime between May 22 and May 23. The first student became ill shortly after arriving in Italy and tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Later, three other students tested positive for the flu.

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20090608_ap_pacollegestudentsinitalyfoundwithswineflu.html

[HenryN]

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Jun 8, 2009 8:24 am US/Eastern
Local Students Test Positive For H1N1 In Italy

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A quarantine order was lifted Sunday on four Duquesne University students who came down with the H1N1 flu virus while traveling abroad in Italy.

Officials with the university say one of the students had to be hospitalized.

Eight students from the music school at Duquesne University, two high school students and an adult student were on the trip to study opera, officials said.

The chair of university voice department led the trip, but shortly after their arrival, school officials say a female student got sick.

"One of these people who was in Italy became ill and was hospitalized with what looked like H1N1," said Dr. Bruce Dixon, of the Allegheny County Health Department.

Then, three more of the students became ill.

"I don't think they got it in Italy, I suspect they got it in Pittsburgh ? and carried it over there," said Dr. Dixon. "They were probably in the incubating phase when they left."

Officials with Duquesne University say the students were asked to stay in their rooms.

The entire group was treated with Tamiflu and the sick students have recovered. Authorities say the health officials in Italy lifted the quarantine Sunday.

The group has finished their work, but did have to cancel a concert. They are set to come home on Tuesday.

Dr. Dixon says the H1N1 flu seems more common in teenagers and young adults.

"Most people who were born before 1957 - that virus or a very similar virus was circulating for a long period of time - so many individuals 50-some years old probably have a certain amount of innate immunity," explained Dr. Dixon.

So far, there have only been 27 confirmed H1N1 flu cases in Allegheny County, which Dixon says should be reassuring.

"Twenty-seven cases out of 1.4 million is a very minuscule amount," he said. "It doesn't seem like our numbers are going up.

In addition, to the 27 confirmed cases in the county, officials say there are also six probable ones.

http://kdka.com/health/Duquesne.University.H1N1.2.1034985.html