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Three more swine flu cases confirmed in state
by: SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
Thursday, May 07, 2009
5/7/2009 5:36:48 PM
Three more cases of swine flu, or H1N1 influenza, have been confirmed in central Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said Thursday afternoon.
Two of the cases are a woman and a teenage girl, who are not related, from Cleveland County, and the other case is a girl in Oklahoma County. All have recovered and none of them required hospitalization.
The Oklahoma County girl is a student in Edmond?s Deer Creek school district. She did not attend school while suffering symptoms of the flu, which she likely got from contact with a relative who had been to Mexico, officials said.
On Thursday, a Pontotoc County woman was announced to be recovering from the virus after returning from a recent trip to Mexico. She also did not require hospitalization and has recovered.
The virus has killed two people in Texas who had underlying medical conditions. It has also been blamed for 42 deaths in Mexico.
As of Thursday, 41 states have reported 896 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pam Williams, spokeswoman for the state health department, said Thursday she expects Oklahoma too see more confirmed swine flu cases.
?I believe that probably every state can expect to see more cases,? she said.
She emphasized that the virus is behaving much like the regular, seasonal flu, and people should take similar precautions.
?We just want people to stay calm,? she said.
Earlier this week, Oklahoma State University announced administrators will not be shaking graduates? hands during their commencement activities this weekend to protect against possible exposure to swine flu. Other colleges and universities in the state have said they have no plans to eliminate hand-shaking from their graduation programs.
OSU has also canceled all university-sponsored trips to Mexico through the summer.
The CDC has not recommended closing schools when a case is confirmed; that decision is left to local officials, according to a press release from the state health department.
A person cannot get swine flu by eating pork. It is spread by person-to-person contact. There is no vaccine to prevent H1N1, and the seasonal flu vaccine does not protect against it, according to the health department.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20090507_12_0_Threem258480
by: SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
Thursday, May 07, 2009
5/7/2009 5:36:48 PM
Three more cases of swine flu, or H1N1 influenza, have been confirmed in central Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said Thursday afternoon.
Two of the cases are a woman and a teenage girl, who are not related, from Cleveland County, and the other case is a girl in Oklahoma County. All have recovered and none of them required hospitalization.
The Oklahoma County girl is a student in Edmond?s Deer Creek school district. She did not attend school while suffering symptoms of the flu, which she likely got from contact with a relative who had been to Mexico, officials said.
On Thursday, a Pontotoc County woman was announced to be recovering from the virus after returning from a recent trip to Mexico. She also did not require hospitalization and has recovered.
The virus has killed two people in Texas who had underlying medical conditions. It has also been blamed for 42 deaths in Mexico.
As of Thursday, 41 states have reported 896 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pam Williams, spokeswoman for the state health department, said Thursday she expects Oklahoma too see more confirmed swine flu cases.
?I believe that probably every state can expect to see more cases,? she said.
She emphasized that the virus is behaving much like the regular, seasonal flu, and people should take similar precautions.
?We just want people to stay calm,? she said.
Earlier this week, Oklahoma State University announced administrators will not be shaking graduates? hands during their commencement activities this weekend to protect against possible exposure to swine flu. Other colleges and universities in the state have said they have no plans to eliminate hand-shaking from their graduation programs.
OSU has also canceled all university-sponsored trips to Mexico through the summer.
The CDC has not recommended closing schools when a case is confirmed; that decision is left to local officials, according to a press release from the state health department.
A person cannot get swine flu by eating pork. It is spread by person-to-person contact. There is no vaccine to prevent H1N1, and the seasonal flu vaccine does not protect against it, according to the health department.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20090507_12_0_Threem258480