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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps) V/ S) @! H+ b" P2 M
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Updated: Wed Jul. 15 2009 3:50:08 PM9 M3 M% u% D- x9 Q
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The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is reporting that 227 young people at three summer camps in cottage country have developed H1N1 flu.
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6 {' J1 c c( a( U0 sDr. Charles Gardner, the district's chief medical officer of health, told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday that the district isn't saying which three camps are involved.
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L1 X+ U1 \, ?, Q+ a) SThe lakeland area of central Ontario covered by the district has 71 registered camps. The three camps involved had 1,275 campers and 480 staff, he said.4 A4 b2 E9 |% E/ ]
' d& e9 M5 t/ T5 `# wThe number of infected represents almost one in five campers and almost one in seven camp staffers at the affected camps.
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The cases developed in the past week. All are considered mild, meaning no one required hospitalization, Gardner said.
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/ p* _- \1 ]+ f3 l+ u! F"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said.
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Most of the infected campers have been sent home to recover. Those who can't be sent home for whatever reason are in quarantine.: T0 ?5 Z! O+ h# e$ F. r u
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Gardner said the district is also having all camps tell all parents in writing that "this is an unusual year" -- referring to the outbreak of H1N1, which the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic.
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"They need to be aware of H1N1 influenza, that we've had three outbreaks to date and there's the possibility we could have others," he said.
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/ Z! A5 z# _2 U9 N( U' ~- GParents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.( N/ U4 ]4 t; p9 x6 M
+ ]5 J( [0 v% K' D Q. n"Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.6 K" K2 Q* ~8 N
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Those symptoms include fever, cough, sore throats or a general sense of malaise. "If that's happening within seven days of them coming to a camp, they should not go," he said.* f# ]) t8 s" C' q' d
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Gardner said the district thought there could be some outbreaks at camps this summer, given that some cases had occurred in schools.( K- z& W6 z$ w3 N! s* A& l
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However, normally the district is usually more focused on working with camps to prevent outbreaks of gastroenteric diseases and on injury prevention, he said. |
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