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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps# d% |3 ^; s Q" n" c: U2 E0 h% @+ B
3 [4 Z$ ` x _Updated: Wed Jul. 15 2009 3:50:08 PM
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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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Dr. 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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The 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.( R6 Q/ {- x* q5 K' `
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The number of infected represents almost one in five campers and almost one in seven camp staffers at the affected camps. [2 o$ m$ G6 C
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The cases developed in the past week. All are considered mild, meaning no one required hospitalization, Gardner said.# p: P& M. @+ X' | O4 p# u1 f- k1 S
) V, e! ^& K j% I, |5 l( w"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.
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/ H/ |3 Z. J3 h1 I/ E/ TGardner 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.* Q9 z5 t* k' q' I8 L( D, T9 l
' O3 b' r# W! X6 }* `1 e B"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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- t* f) k/ v4 s) N5 {+ w% x4 CParents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said., z# U6 M$ ]6 a' ^) c# W
8 n, x$ m0 q; f* }1 |% g+ T! Y" t"Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.: Z; D& I+ X% P0 S; x
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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.
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) ?% [' O7 q7 f0 R/ aGardner said the district thought there could be some outbreaks at camps this summer, given that some cases had occurred in schools./ R) U l5 q: M: a, [
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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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