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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Five more students at area schools have been identified as experiencing flu-like symptoms.
Those Orange County schools are Odyssey Middle School, Maitland Middle School, Dover Shores Elementary and Pershing Elementary.
This comes just after a dozen Orange County school students are already being treated as though they have swine flu, or the H1N1 virus.
Nurses and other assistants first discovered that several students were experiencing flu-like symptoms.
Orange County nurses and other administrators found 12 students at nearly dozen schools with flu like symptoms.
They're now being treated for swine flu.
"Of the 12 one of those students of the 12 the parent called in they did not go to school that day. Eleven did present flu like symptoms. Schools took the exact appropriate action as they've been trained and directed to do," OCPS COO Michael Eugene said.
Eugene said the school has put together a comprehensive preventative approach to swine flu, which includes wiping down high touch areas.
Meanwhile, Orange County Health officials are working with the schools to get ready to administer the H1NI vaccine when it's ready. That could be around mid-October or early November.
Timing depends on clinical trials and the manufacturing.
"The way I understand it right now, the health departments will be providing the vaccine for free. It is actually being provided through the federal government for free. Now private doctors, there is talk they could charge an administrative fee, small fee maybe $10 to $15, something like that. That's all still in the works," Dain Weister of the Orange County Health Department said.
http://www.wesh.com/health/20586084/detail.html
Those Orange County schools are Odyssey Middle School, Maitland Middle School, Dover Shores Elementary and Pershing Elementary.
This comes just after a dozen Orange County school students are already being treated as though they have swine flu, or the H1N1 virus.
Nurses and other assistants first discovered that several students were experiencing flu-like symptoms.
Orange County nurses and other administrators found 12 students at nearly dozen schools with flu like symptoms.
They're now being treated for swine flu.
"Of the 12 one of those students of the 12 the parent called in they did not go to school that day. Eleven did present flu like symptoms. Schools took the exact appropriate action as they've been trained and directed to do," OCPS COO Michael Eugene said.
Eugene said the school has put together a comprehensive preventative approach to swine flu, which includes wiping down high touch areas.
Meanwhile, Orange County Health officials are working with the schools to get ready to administer the H1NI vaccine when it's ready. That could be around mid-October or early November.
Timing depends on clinical trials and the manufacturing.
"The way I understand it right now, the health departments will be providing the vaccine for free. It is actually being provided through the federal government for free. Now private doctors, there is talk they could charge an administrative fee, small fee maybe $10 to $15, something like that. That's all still in the works," Dain Weister of the Orange County Health Department said.
http://www.wesh.com/health/20586084/detail.html
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