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H1N1 flu outbreak reported at Ontario summer camps& P: z% g5 d$ n3 D6 v9 E
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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.$ `7 ~! ]9 Q2 R9 a E7 u
1 Z+ \5 x: |: R0 y7 G6 o9 uThe 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.( o$ W& m3 Y2 S b' X
r* r( r8 x# y: aThe number of infected represents almost one in five campers and almost one in seven camp staffers at the affected camps.8 c7 ^# C$ m( t/ n& N/ y$ F
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The cases developed in the past week. All are considered mild, meaning no one required hospitalization, Gardner said." y: d" u' {7 V: \ B
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"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said.' M7 ]. ?* P+ D
+ }: }: R; ^" t! s8 t: \Most of the infected campers have been sent home to recover. Those who can't be sent home for whatever reason are in quarantine.# `$ c8 I9 `, b
% L4 B$ N" W1 T! Q3 {2 N. }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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: G1 g. U; _1 ~, O. \' 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.8 ]% @4 i, Z2 l- ^7 L4 ~) q
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Parents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.
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" j4 m4 @) ? r6 {. C"Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.! ~ f/ b3 l# o
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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. ~& `: N6 d9 U+ ?. k" C. C+ o
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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.
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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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