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Ohio case confirmed - 3 more probable cases

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Ohioan Tests Positive for Swine Flu Save Email Print


WTAP News
Posted: 12:54 PM Apr 26, 2009
Ohioan Tests Positive for Swine Flu

Last Updated: 1:00 PM Apr 26, 2009
Reporter: Leslie Cebula

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reported and confirmed a case of swine flu involving a 9-year-old boy from Lorain County Sunday. The patient is considered to have a mild case of the disease and is recovering at home.

According to ODH, because this combination of strains of the influenza virus is new, ODH and local health departments remind Ohioans of the precautions they should take to avoid exposure. As with all newly emerging flu strains, no vaccine has yet been developed.

?I urge Ohioans to be alert to information about this new flu,? said ODH Director Alvin D. Jackson, M.D. ?In addition, the tried-and-true saying about washing hands and covering one?s cough remains sound medical advice.?

According to ODH symptoms of this swine flu virus closely resemble seasonal flu, and include fever, weakness, coughing and lack of appetite.

ODH and local health departments are working with health care providers and hospitals around the state to determine if there are other cases.

According to recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), all health care providers who see patients with flu-like symptoms and learn that the patient traveled to Mexico, affected counties in Southern California or Texas during the 7 days preceding their illness onset, should have nasal swab samples from the patient tested.

Recommendations from ODH and CDC include:
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
If you get sick with influenza, see your doctor and CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.

Additional information is available on the ODH and CDC Web sites at http://odh.ohio.gov and http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/ . The Ohio Department of Health will be providing additional updates as information becomes available.


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I'm curious, why is it that almost every US case has been a child?
 
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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/ap...ation-probable-swine-flu-cases/news-breaking/

In Ohio, a 9-year-old boy was infected with the same strain suspected of killing dozens in Mexico, authorities said. The third-grader had visited several Mexican cities on a family vacation, said Clifton Barnes, spokesman for the Lorain County Emergency Management Agency.

"He went to a fair, he went to a farm, he went to visit family around Mexico," Barnes said.

The boy has a mild case and is recovering at his home in Elyria, in northern Ohio, authorities said.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518015,00.html
The child in Elyira displayed typical seasonal flu symptoms, including a sore throat and body aches, Jennings said. His family members are being tested for the disease, but they currently are in good health, Jennings said. He did not know if the child or his family had direct contact with pigs while they were in Mexico.
 
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Article published April 27, 2009
Rapid spread of swine flu: Possible case of illness probed in Wood Co.

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials yesterday declared the rapid spread of swine flu to be a public health emergency and freed up 12.5 million doses of antiviral medication to help fight the disease, which has infected 20 people in five states, including one in northern Ohio.

Locally, a possible swine flu case was being investigated in Wood County. Pamela Butler, the county health commissioner, said a person who had recently traveled into Mexico from Texas reported flu-like symptoms to Wood County Hospital, and tests were under way to determine whether that person contracted swine flu.

Ms. Butler said the Ohio Department of Health had been notified, but until the test results come back no action is planned. She said she did not know where the ill person lives.

To read the rest of the article go to:

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090427/NEWS16/904270370/-1/NEWS04
 
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http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=112475&catid=3


ELYRIA -- The Lorain County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security announced this morning that three more Lorain County residents may have swine flu, possibly bringing the total of those with the influenza so far to four.
Officials said that, in the past 24 hours, three more Lorain County residents have tested positive for an "A" variant of influenza.
One adult and one child are at Amherst Hospital and another child is at St. John's Westshore Hospital, according to Emergency Management officials.
Samples from all three suspected cases have been taken to the Ohio Department of Health to test if the influenza is the H1N1 strain.
The young Lorain County boy who attends Ely Elementary School who was Ohio's first confirmed case of swine flu Sunday is now recovering at home.
 
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In Ohio, a 9-year-old boy was infected with the same strain suspected of killing dozens in Mexico, authorities said. The third-grader had visited several Mexican cities on a family vacation
April 26, 2009 22:51PM
State and local health officials Sunday [26.Apr.] confirmed Ohio's first case of swine flu in a 9-year-old
Lorain County boy
The boy's school, Ely Elementary in Elyria, is closed this week as a precaution following a Centers for Disease Control recommendation issued Sunday night,

May 8, 2009 - 7:56 AM
The Elyria elementary school attended by the 9-year-old boy reopened Wednesday after shutting its doors for a week and a half, and the boy returned with his classmates.

3.May=Sun
6.May=Wed
school closed: Apr.27-6.May

The child in Elyira displayed typical seasonal flu symptoms, including a sore throat and body aches, Jennings said. His family members are being tested for the disease, but they currently are in good health, Jennings said. He did not know if the child or his family had direct contact with pigs while they were in Mexico.

he was apparantly sampled on 24.Apr
A/Ohio/7/9m,2009-04-24
so he presumably had first symptoms on 22.April or before

but he had the NY-virus, no such sequences from Mexico or elsewhere.
All seem to go back to St.Francis school where travelors
returned from Cancun on Apr.20

> the boy had been feeling sick only since Wednesday, [22.Apr.]

so, could he have met one of the
NY-people returning from Cancun at 19.Apr. ?
 
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http://www.whiotv.com/news/19694294/detail.html


2 Confirmed Cases Of H1N1 In Dayton Schools
Posted: 4:48 pm EDT June 8, 2009
Updated: 5:32 pm EDT June 8, 2009

DAYTON, Ohio -- Officials with Dayton Public Schools announced Monday that they have received confirmation of two cases of H1N1 in the district.

Superintendent Dr. Kurt Stanic said one student at Stivers School of the Performing Arts and another student at Wogaman Elementary have tested positive.

Health officials said they are treating this as the normal flu. They are advising sick students to stay at home and follow proper hygiene.

School officials said they sent out notification to parents in one call.

Stanic said the district is not planning on closing the schools due to the confirmed cases
 
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