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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps
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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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. g: a6 `8 n5 w$ g2 d" TDr. 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. U) \( A; O2 B: f9 E: N. Y) }
- g0 o0 c" [' a) U. OThe 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.
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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.
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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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"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said." C& @% E+ S0 E9 r; }: ?/ p0 r- ?
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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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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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; z5 C5 W$ g0 m"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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8 A4 x* L4 y. s4 x9 iParents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.
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5 x+ U+ X: [9 K# \: y/ o# ["Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.
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% K# w7 k# ?$ Z2 ]+ jThose 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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4 C F- q( N: u3 W' p9 ~Gardner said the district thought there could be some outbreaks at camps this summer, given that some cases had occurred in schools.
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) u% T8 X, b+ \1 ?3 iHowever, 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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