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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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5 e2 O7 [/ S3 v' d4 UThe Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is reporting that 227 young people at three summer camps in cottage country have developed H1N1 flu.# p5 U" u' q; w8 c% w& u6 a/ _
?3 D9 s+ y8 @' T5 A" D( {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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6 ]4 P+ x8 p* f5 f" DThe 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.. x" v+ U8 S1 u3 P8 R
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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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; K `. Y+ i9 e7 ~3 g, k"The camps are working very closely with the health unit to implement what we call control measures," he said., j$ P% w8 {2 C5 _- M" S
+ T/ t" Z, ^% p5 AMost of the infected campers have been sent home to recover. Those who can't be sent home for whatever reason are in quarantine.( J( j! _! y7 ~/ y5 `
) h9 G3 Z- h. ~4 g) RGardner 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.8 O# M j; \2 z0 H* o) J
, G, ?, v; g$ Z3 E; I% B* X"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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Parents can help by making sure they aren't sending sick children to camp, Gardner said.
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3 @; f5 c; z( }7 M3 \' _2 e }: x5 c7 V"Do not send your children to camp if they have any influenza-like illness," he said.
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( [' ~6 n/ B4 k8 u: i sThose 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.& B0 e7 f+ R, R( i7 u
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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' _0 {) |' I h2 g- S
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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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