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Switzerland - 80 students infected with swineflu in Graub?nden

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
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Quarantine in two boarding schools in Graub?nden

In the canton of Graub?nden, around 80 students are affected in two boarding schools in the swine flu. While it was shown on the Upper Engadine Zuoz Lyceum, the virus is through the convent school Disentis concrete suspicion.

At the Lyceum Zuoz about 40 of the 220 internal and 100 external students and three teachers are infected with the swine flu. The disease broke out last week, it has been demonstrated for the first time the H1N1 virus on Saturday.

A half-dozen tests are positive, therefore the school is based, according to Rector Beat Summer assume that the other diseases are caused by the virus at the Lyceum. All the affected students are now in quarantine at the school's infirmary, or in isolated rooms, as the Rector, "a report from the southeastern Switzerland, the newspaper said.

Twice as many patients as in the case of ordinary flu

Before the flu broke out in the boarding school, there had been several diseases in the surrounding communities, Sommer said to news agency SDA.

"With 220 students living in boarding school, we are" a fertile target for the virus, the rector. The number of patients was approximately twice as high as in a normal flu season. However, the symptoms were similar.

While in Zuoz nearly 20 percent of internal students are sick, there is at the convent school Disentis in the upper Rhine valley in front of almost half of the 78 boarding students suspected of infection. The test results are pending in Disentis.

Counted throughout Switzerland, the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG), the last Monday of 1119 confirmed and 119 probable cases of swine flu. In the first week of September 32 of 100,000 inhabitants consulted their physician because of flu symptoms.

(sda)

http://www.20min.ch/news/dossier/sc...rantaene-in-zwei-Buendner-Internaten-19783909

Quarant?ne in zwei B?ndner Internaten

Im Kanton Graub?nden sind rund 80 Sch?ler in zwei Internaten an der Schweinegrippe erkrankt. W?hrend am Oberengadiner Lyceum Zuoz das Virus nachgewiesen wurde, besteht in der Klosterschule Disentis konkreter Verdacht.


Am Lyceum Zuoz sind rund 40 der 220 internen und 100 externen Sch?ler und drei Lehrpersonen mit der Schweinegrippe angesteckt. Die Krankheit ist letzte Woche ausgebrochen, nachgewiesen wurde das Virus H1N1 erstmals am Samstag.

Ein halbes Dutzend Tests sind positiv ausgefallen, daher geht die Schule laut Rektor Beat Sommer davon aus, dass auch die ?brigen Erkrankungen am Lyceum vom Virus verursacht sind. Alle erkrankten Sch?ler befinden sich in Quarant?ne auf der schuleigenen Krankenstation oder in isolierten Zimmern, wie der Rektor zu einem Bericht der Tageszeitung ?Die S?dostschweiz? sagte.

Doppelt so viel Kranke wie bei gew?hnlicher Grippe

Bevor die Grippe im Internat ausbrach, habe es mehrere Erkrankungen in den umliegenden Gemeinden gegeben, sagte Sommer zur Nachrichtenagentur SDA. ?Mit 220 im Internat lebenden Sch?lern sind wir ein dankbares Ziel f?r das Virus?, so der Rektor. Die Zahl der Erkrankten sei rund doppelt so hoch wie bei einer normalen Grippewelle. Die Symptome hingegen w?ren vergleichbar.

W?hrend in Zuoz knapp 20 Prozent der internen Sch?ler krank sind, besteht an der Klosterschule Disentis im oberen Vorderrheintal bei fast der H?lfte der 78 Internatssch?ler Ansteckungsverdacht. Die Testergebnisse in Disentis stehen noch aus.

Gesamtschweizerisch z?hlte das Bundesamtes f?r Gesundheit (BAG) letzten Montag 1119 best?tigte und 119 wahrscheinliche F?lle von Schweinegrippe. In der ersten Septemberwoche konsultierten 32 von 100'000 Einwohnern wegen Grippesymptomen ihren Arzt.
 
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