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Five Queenslanders remain in intensive care with swine flu
By Emma Pollard
Queensland Health says people who have mild flu-like symptoms do not need to visit their GP. (AAP Image: Dave Hunt)
More than 2,000 people have now tested positive for swine flu across Queensland, with 18 patients currently in hospital and five of those in intensive care.
School resumes tomorrow but Queensland Health says parents should keep children at home if they are sick with flu-like symptoms.
Queensland Health says people who have mild flu-like symptoms do not need to visit their GP.
Only those who are vulnerable to developing complications will be tested for the virus.
Meanwhile in central Queensland, all 91 inmates at the Capricornia low security prison farm near Rockhampton are undergoing tests after some prisoners showed flu symptoms.
Six men have been isolated, while they await the results of swine flu tests, which are due today.
Visits to the prison farm were cancelled over the weekend.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/13/2623697.htm
By Emma Pollard
Queensland Health says people who have mild flu-like symptoms do not need to visit their GP. (AAP Image: Dave Hunt)
More than 2,000 people have now tested positive for swine flu across Queensland, with 18 patients currently in hospital and five of those in intensive care.
School resumes tomorrow but Queensland Health says parents should keep children at home if they are sick with flu-like symptoms.
Queensland Health says people who have mild flu-like symptoms do not need to visit their GP.
Only those who are vulnerable to developing complications will be tested for the virus.
Meanwhile in central Queensland, all 91 inmates at the Capricornia low security prison farm near Rockhampton are undergoing tests after some prisoners showed flu symptoms.
Six men have been isolated, while they await the results of swine flu tests, which are due today.
Visits to the prison farm were cancelled over the weekend.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/13/2623697.htm