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Not sure if this is a dupe (the part about them being in mexico recently is news to me) or is in the wrong place. Please move or delete as needed.


Flu Patients In New York Had Been In Mexico - Report



NEW YORK (AFP)--Some 75 at a New York private school who have been treated for flu-like symptoms recently traveled to Mexico, but no swine flu case has been confirmed, U.S. media reported Saturday.

The students at St. Francis Preparatory School in the New York City borough of Queens "had complained Thursday of nausea, fever, dizziness and aches and pains, " the New York Times reported, citing officials from the local health department.

"Several of the students were said to have recently traveled to Mexico," where as many as 60 people have died in an outbreak of multi-strain swine flu in recent weeks, it added.

The department sent investigators to the school Friday after officials thought their symptoms "were consistent with a strain of swine flu that has swept Mexico City."

Authorities were "sanitizing" the school as a precaution, CNN television reported Saturday, adding that no swine flu case had been confirmed.

In Mexico, authorities shut several public venues as the main outbreak hit the capital, Mexico City, with between 18 and 20 confirmed deaths due to the virus. There were also deaths in the central city of San Luis Potosi, with three fatalities, and in Mexicali on the U.S. border.

The virus detected in 12 fatal Mexican cases is also genetically identical to that which affected eight people in California and Texas, though all of those recovered.


(END) Dow Jones Newswires
04-25-091106ET
 
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from st. francis, note the other two schools mentioned
http://www.sfponline.org/


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Not sure if this is the school they are referring to or not, but there are a few schools that all seem to have noro-virus around this date.

NY Weschester County HS Hit With Mystery Illness - 160 Violently Sick
by Mitch Marconi

Published: Apr 18, 2009

A mystery illness is sweeping a suburban high school causing dozens of students and teachers to have flu-like symptoms. According to reports, a high school in Westchester County New York has left health inspectors
baffled. They are trying to find out why and how to stop the recent virus that is making students violently ill.

According to WCBSTV, "One woman's daughter was one of the many students and faculty the bug has hit. The Health Department
says it's the pesky nor virus, which causes nausea vomiting and diarrhea. It cannot be treated with antibiotics, so those made ill are advised to drink fluids, rest up and avoid contact with others. The school will also be reintroducing a lesson plan usually given to much younger students -- the importance of hygiene and hand-washing."

In the mean time, the school is getting a thorough cleaning every Friday night. Rumors of up to 160 kids have opted out or were sick staying home from school. More to come...(c) tPC
 
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via Twitter:

franwallace: Sounds like New York City is about to announce an outbreak of #Swine Flu in a local school at a press conference. Hope I'm wrong.
1 minute ago from web ? Reply ? View Tweet
 
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Welcome Sekhmet!

We do not publish information from an unknown source without a link.
 
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Florida1 said:
Welcome Sekhmet!

We do not publish information from an unknown source without a link.
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My apologies. While I am newly registered, I have been following this forum for years and am aware of the policy.

I assumed most readers are aware of the nature of twitter and would appreciate the anecdotal information. I will refrain from muddying the waters further.
 
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sekhmet said:
My apologies. While I am newly registered, I have been following this forum for years and am aware of the policy.

I assumed most readers are aware of the nature of twitter and would appreciate the anecdotal information. I will refrain from muddying the waters further.
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I really appreciate your understanding. We are very concerned about the nature of potential unsubstantiated rumours. In a pandemic situation they could be deadly even.

Thank you for joining us!
 
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Susan Candiotti on CNN just reported that they took 9 swabs from students yesterday and they are positive for type A flu. They are now sending the swabs to the CDC for further testing to see if the type A flu is the Mexican swine flu. Should have results tomorrow or Monday.

No link yet - report was just on TV.
 
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Florida1 said:
I really appreciate your understanding. We are very concerned about the nature of potential unsubstantiated rumours. In a pandemic situation they could be deadly even.

Thank you for joining us!
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I hope this is the right place to ask. Do you mean local news agencies also? ( ie Union Tribune etc. )

If they are ok to post, is it best to start a new thread, or add to the pinned forum?

Thank you :)
 
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Updated: 1:43 p.m.


Health Dept. to speak on 75 ill Queens students

<DL class=byline>BY MATTHEW CHAYES | AND KEITH HERBERT. matthew.chayes@newsday.com. keith.herbert@newsday.com <DD>1:43 PM EDT, April 25, 2009 </DD></DL><!-- sphereit start -->With epidemiologists investigating whether the flulike symptoms that sickened at least 75 students at a Queens Catholic high school are related to a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico, the city's health department is to hold a news conference Saturday afternoon to update the public about the outbreak.

Authorities will speak at 3 p.m. to reporters about the infections at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, a department spokesman said.

Symptoms of the ill students at the school include headache, upset stomach and dizziness, according to a letter by Brother Leonard Conway that's posted on the school's Web site.

In two other local school systems, including Amityville, students have fallen ill in unusually high numbers.


<!-- END rail -->In the Amityville incident, about three dozen students and three teachers at Edmund W. Miles Middle School had to leave school earlier this month after coming down with a mild respiratory illness or strep throat.

Around the same time in Westchester, an entire high school in Chappaqua closed early after 16 students - in addition to the 90 already absent for health-related reasons - had to be sent home with flulike symptoms, according to The Journal News of Westchester.

And in Mexico, authorities shut down schools, museums, libraries and state-run theaters across its capital Friday in hopes of containing an outbreak of the swine flu authorities say killed at least 68 people - and sickened eight people in California and Texas.

World health authorities worried openly that the strange new virus could become a global pandemic. The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients was the same genetically as the new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in the eight Americans.

Victims sickened by the strain in the United States included two children from California - a boy, 10, and a girl, 9 - a father and his teenage daughter, also of California, and two 16-year-old boys in Guadalupe County, Texas, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. A 41-year-old woman, also from California, was hospitalized.

This story was supplemented by The Associated Press.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liflu2612698713apr25,0,3679067.story
 
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The school's website is here:

http://www.sfponline.org/sfp_home.asp

The school's reporting two other schools have sick kids, by the way.

A few thoughts and questions here:

1) The school's got a population of 2750. If this was a panflu wouldn't more kids be sick? Either it's not particularly contagious, it's similar enough to H1N1 that much of the population has immunity, or this is the tip of the iceberg and lots more are gonna get sick.

2) 75 sick, simultaneously, if this is swine flu, will give us an idea of "how bad" it can get. If they all recover and go back to school and life's good, awesome. If they start getting seriously ill, we know we've got big problems.

3) If this is swine flu, they'll probably close schools city wide in NYC. (They'd be irresponsible not to -- how many high schoolers have younger siblings attending other schools, if nothing else?) And at that point, we're off to the races as far as public awareness that this isn't a joke.
 
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Online CNN story -

NY tests don?t rule out swine flu
Posted: 03:38 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNN) ? Preliminary results from tests of students at a New York school do not rule out swine flu, the director of surveillance for the Bureau of Communicable Diseases said Saturday.

Dr. Don Weiss said the samples will now be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the subtype of the strain. The results will likely come back either Sunday or Monday.

He said the samples, which were taken from oral and nasal swabs from nine students, came back positive for ?Type A? flu and the tests will need to determine the samples? subtype.

He said up to 100 students at the Queens school reported feeling ill.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/
 
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Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25468227.htm


New York sends flu samples from school to CDC-CNN
25 Apr 2009 19:33:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Students at a New York City school have tested positive for Type A influenza, CNN reported on Saturday, but more tests are needed to see if they have the unusual new flu virus involved in an outbreak in Mexico, it said.

The television network, quoting local health officials, said the New York City health department was sending samples from nine students who had flu-like symptoms to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more detailed testing.

About 100 students at a school in the New York City borough of Queens became sick last week, prompting the tests, according to local media reports.

A quick throat swab test can tell if a person has influenza but further testing is usually required to determine the strain.

CDC officials said earlier on Saturday they were waiting for local health officials to ask for help and that they were not involved in the New York investigation. They noted that outbreaks of respiratory illness are common and do not necessarily mean that people have flu.

Public health officials in the United States, Canada and Mexico are on heightened alert to flu outbreaks because of a new influenza strain in the A/H1N1 family suspected of killing as many as 68 people in Mexico and infecting more than 1,000 more, including eight in the United States.

World Health Organization experts are set to declare the outbreak is a "public health event of international concern" and are assessing the risks the outbreak will turn into a pandemic. [ID:nN25474808] (Reporting by Roberta Rampton) (For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click on [nFLU])
 
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Welcome Thebes!
 
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New York Public Health Department Confirms that 8 samples taken from the children is "probable" Swine Flu. Samples sent to CDC for 2nd confirmation. It is untypeable influenza A which is the CDC guideline for swine flu.

All cases have had mild symptoms.
 
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hawkeye said:
Not sure if this is the school they are referring to or not, but there are a few schools that all seem to have noro-virus around this date.

NY Weschester County HS Hit With Mystery Illness - 160 Violently Sick
by Mitch Marconi

Published: Apr 18, 2009

A mystery illness is sweeping a suburban high school causing dozens of students and teachers to have flu-like symptoms. According to reports, a high school in Westchester County New York has left health inspectors
baffled. They are trying to find out why and how to stop the recent virus that is making students violently ill.

According to WCBSTV, "One woman's daughter was one of the many students and faculty the bug has hit. The Health Department
says it's the pesky nor virus, which causes nausea vomiting and diarrhea. It cannot be treated with antibiotics, so those made ill are advised to drink fluids, rest up and avoid contact with others. The school will also be reintroducing a lesson plan usually given to much younger students -- the importance of hygiene and hand-washing."

In the mean time, the school is getting a thorough cleaning every Friday night. Rumors of up to 160 kids have opted out or were sick staying home from school. More to come...(c) tPC
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New York Health Dept. does not know what this illness was.
 
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I know the WHO does not want to create a panic but with this confirmation of swine flu, I do not see how they can justify not moving to a phase 4. Cleary there is a strong increase in human to human transmission.
 
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New York schoolchildren had flu, official says


New York schoolchildren had flu, official says
25 Apr 2009 20:19:58 GMT
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</SPAN> <!-- New York schoolchildren had flu, official says --><!-- Reuters -->WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Tests have confirmed that eight New York city schoolchildren had a type A influenza virus, likely swine flu, New York city health commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden said on Saturday.
Samples have been sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further testing to see if they are indeed the unusual H1N1 flu strain that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico and may have sickened others, Frieden told a news conference.
"In every single case, illness was mild. Many of the children are feeling better," Frieden said.
(Reporting by Maggie Fox, editing by Patricia Zengerle)
 
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Florida1- I do not have a right to express that I believe Mexico has acted irresponsibly? Thats not bashing Mexico, that is saying it like it is. My parents are in Mexico right now. Mexico knew about the situation a few days ago before they left.
 
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