Mary Wilson
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Published: 1:02 PM PDT October 13, 2022
Updated: 5:32 PM PDT October 13, 2022
Author: CBS 8 Staff, Shannon Handy
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County Public Health Services is investigating a large, suspected outbreak of respiratory and flu-like symptoms reported among students at Patrick Henry High School and Del Norte High School.
About 400 students were absent from Del Norte High School on Wednesday and Thursday due to an outbreak of a flu-like illness.
School officials said the symptoms were mostly fever, cough and headache.
According to Poway Unified spokesperson Christine Paik, the absences began Monday.
"What we saw from the Monday back from the weekend, we had 189 absences. Tuesday and Wednesday that jumped to close to 400," said Paik. ...
She said their symptoms are flu-like, similar to the symptoms of the students at Patrick Henry High School.
A San Diego Unified spokesperson tells CBS8, on Wednesday, more than 1,000 students at Patrick Henry called out sick.
While county doctors are still waiting for more test results to come back, at this point, they believe most of the students at both high schools have the flu.
"While this is preliminary, a number of them are already testing positive for influenza A. Flu A is the harder hitter of the major types of flu we deal with annually," said Dr. Cameron Kaiser, a deputy health officer with the County of San Diego. ...
The CDC has reported an increase in flu cases nationwide.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/l...tion/509-62628bd2-e7ec-4c19-b344-94fa7c53fe93
Updated: 5:32 PM PDT October 13, 2022
Author: CBS 8 Staff, Shannon Handy
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County Public Health Services is investigating a large, suspected outbreak of respiratory and flu-like symptoms reported among students at Patrick Henry High School and Del Norte High School.
About 400 students were absent from Del Norte High School on Wednesday and Thursday due to an outbreak of a flu-like illness.
School officials said the symptoms were mostly fever, cough and headache.
According to Poway Unified spokesperson Christine Paik, the absences began Monday.
"What we saw from the Monday back from the weekend, we had 189 absences. Tuesday and Wednesday that jumped to close to 400," said Paik. ...
She said their symptoms are flu-like, similar to the symptoms of the students at Patrick Henry High School.
A San Diego Unified spokesperson tells CBS8, on Wednesday, more than 1,000 students at Patrick Henry called out sick.
While county doctors are still waiting for more test results to come back, at this point, they believe most of the students at both high schools have the flu.
"While this is preliminary, a number of them are already testing positive for influenza A. Flu A is the harder hitter of the major types of flu we deal with annually," said Dr. Cameron Kaiser, a deputy health officer with the County of San Diego. ...
The CDC has reported an increase in flu cases nationwide.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/l...tion/509-62628bd2-e7ec-4c19-b344-94fa7c53fe93