Some 2,000 sick with swine flu at WSU

[tropical]

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#19: editorials trivial.
"As of Aug. 23, World Health Organization records bring the total number of global H1N1 deaths to more than 2,000. Now compare that with the 255,000 people who died from asthma in 2005, and you will start wondering why H1N1 still dominates the headlines."

It seems that when Mr. J.R. wroted the news text, he wasn't aware that it could not be compared an ongoing new pandemic flu infective virus, with the asthma illness.

As nobody with asthma could infect anybody,
folks illnessed from flu will spread further this misery illness,
which will than harm many,
and people with asthma are additionaly sensitive and could have serious resulting problems.

 

[Pathfinder]

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Wednesday, Sep. 09, 2009

Swine flu cases at WSU jump up again

By The Associated Press

Pullman The number of people reporting flu-like symptoms at Washington State University doesn?t appear to be dropping.

Health and Wellness Services reported 169 students contacted them Tuesday to report symptoms consistent with the swine flu.

That?s similar to the daily numbers reported last week.

The number of people reporting the flu dropped a lot during the Labor Day holiday, when many students left campus.

About 2,500 students have contacted Health and Wellness Services with flu-like symptoms since school began in late August.

Nobody has been hospitalized, and most patients have mild symptoms and are better in three to five days.


http://www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/709641

 

[Treyfish]

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thanks Pathfinder. You ARE a path finder.COOL NAME

 

[Commonground]

Re: Some 2,000 sick with swine flu at WSU

Post #18:

"Many of those people are now well and back in class," Adams said.

Definition of "many"? They know how many are back in class. Just let us know. Everyone at WSU should know this.

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: Some 2,000 sick with swine flu at WSU

thanks Pathfinder. You ARE a path finder.COOL NAME

Thank you Treyfish.

 

[hawkeye]

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Interesting only 2 days ago they were stating that the outbreak was tapering off. I wonder if it's about to explode.

WSU official: Swine flu outbreak may be easing
Originally published Monday, September 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM
A health official at Washington State University says the school's swine flu outbreak may be tapering off.

The Associated Press
PULLMAN, Wash. ?

A health official at Washington State University says the school's swine flu outbreak may be tapering off.

Wednesday, Sep. 09, 2009

Swine flu cases at WSU jump up again

By The Associated Press

Pullman The number of people reporting flu-like symptoms at Washington State University doesn?t appear to be dropping.

Health and Wellness Services reported 169 students contacted them Tuesday to report symptoms consistent with the swine flu.

That?s similar to the daily numbers reported last week.

The number of people reporting the flu dropped a lot during the Labor Day holiday, when many students left campus.

About 2,500 students have contacted Health and Wellness Services with flu-like symptoms since school began in late August.

Nobody has been hospitalized, and most patients have mild symptoms and are better in three to five days.


http://www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/709641

 

[Evelyn]

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"In Australia, there has been 20,000 confirmed cases of H1N1, only 110 of which have ended up in intensive care units. That is barely half of 1 percent, and that is without considering the innumerable amount of cases that have gone without confirmation."

Eh? There have now been 162 deaths out of about 35,000 cases. Perhaps the writer doesn't find a death rate of almost 0.5% of confirmed cases worrying either.

Believe me, I didn't agree with that author. I posted the article essentially without comment because if I'd said anything, I'd have said too much.

 

[Evelyn]

Re: Some 2,000 sick with swine flu at WSU

Interesting only 2 days ago they were stating that the outbreak was tapering off. I wonder if it's about to explode.

I expected that the apparent decrease was an effect of the holiday weekend (something that they did admit was a possibility). Kids went home, so they weren't at WSU to report illness. I wish it really were tapering off.

 

[Pathfinder]

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SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) --

An outbreak of flu at Washington State University shows few signs of slowing down as more students report symptoms suspected of being from the H1N1 virus, school officials said Thursday.


WSU Web page gives information, advice to students who suspect they may have H1N1 virus.

More than 2,600 students have come down with possible cases of H1N1 since classes began August 24, said James Tinney, WSU director of media relations. "It takes about three to four days to get over the virus, so many of the people who have had it are already feeling better and are back in class," he said.

On Thursday, 128 new suspected cases of the virus, also known as swine flu, were reported among the nearly 18,000 students who make up the school's Pullman, Washington, campus, said Dr. Dennis Garcia, health and wellness associate medical director.

One student has been hospitalized for dehydration and is recovering, according to a university news release.

Garcia said the school may have to wait for the outbreak to run its course. "If you follow the CDC's predictions that up to 50 percent of a population could become infected, then we might be looking at 9,000 people here," he said.

The school said that while it is no longer testing sick students to confirm H1N1, it is following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the local health department by "treating all patients with influenza-like symptoms as if they have H1N1."

Students who contact the school health services department complaining of flu-like symptoms are urged to stay at home and drink fluids. Watch report on what to look for with H1N1 ?

But despite the school's best efforts to track the outbreak, officials said they may not have an accurate count of how many people have fallen ill. "We have no idea how many people are in their rooms choosing to self care," Garcia said.

But Tinney said the students and faculty are not alarmed.

"The symptoms are fairly mild; some people have said milder than a regular case of the flu. I don't see people walking around the campus wearing masks," he said. Read about H1N1 facts ?


But Tinney said officials were surprised that the long Labor Day weekend, when most students left campus, did not do more to interrupt the virus' spread.

"I guess we are an early test case of how this virus will spread over the population," Tinney said.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/10/washington.flu.university/index.html?eref=rss_health

 

[Evelyn]

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The following are excerpts from the WSU health services flu blog. For the complete blog entries, see https://hws.wsu.edu/blog/default.asp.


HWS Daily Update for Fri. Sept. 11
9/11/2009 10:49:42 AM

We have seen fewer patients with influenza-like illness this week than last week. Yesterday, we were in contact with only 68 WSU students with influenza-like illness. (17 phone nurse conversations, 28 patients who chose to self care after talking with a nurse in the clinic and 13 patients who saw a physician) We are not able to report on numbers of students who may have gotten care from other providers. This weekend we will be open our regular Saturday hours (10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) and extra Sunday hours (10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.).

One of our high-risk patients was hospitalized Wednesday for dehydration and is expected to recover. The overwhelming majority of our patients have had mild symptoms and are usually better in three to five days. We have had about a dozen patients with nausea and vomiting who required hydration.

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HWS Daily Update for Mon. Sept. 14
9/14/2009 9:51:09 AM
We continue to see fewer patients with influenza-like illness. Throughout the weekend, we were in contact with only 26 WSU students with influenza-like illness. (9 phone nurse conversations and 17 patients who saw a physician) Friday we were in contact with 42 WSU students with influenza-like illness. (19 phone nurse conversations, 3 patients who chose to self care after talking with a nurse in the clinic and 20 patients who saw a physician) We are not able to report on numbers of students who may have gotten care from other providers.

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HWS Daily Update for Tues. Sept. 15
9/15/2009 1:08:37 PM

Yesterday we were in contact with 60 WSU students with influenza-like illness. (26 phone nurse conversations, 12 patients who chose to self care after talking with a nurse in the clinic and 22 patients who saw a physician) We are not able to report on numbers of students who may have gotten care from other providers.

The high-risk patient who was hospitalized Wednesday for dehydration was released the next day. Further examination revealed that while the patient had been ill with the flu, the condition that required hospitalization was not actually flu related. Yesterday, we hospitalized a WSU student for pneumonia related to flu. The overwhelming majority of our patients have had mild symptoms and are usually better in three to five days. We have had about a dozen patients with nausea and vomiting who required hydration.