Posted on 04/24/2009 6:37:04 PM PDT by Crazieman
Department Of Health Officials Testing 75 Students At St. Francis Preparatory School In Queens
New York City health officials say that about 75 students at a Queens high school have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms and testing is under way to rule out the strain of swine flu that has killed dozens in Mexico.
The Health Department's Dr. Don Weiss said Friday that a team of agency doctors and investigators were dispatched to the private St. Francis Preparatory School the previous day after students reported fever, sore throat, cough, aches and pains. No one has been hospitalized.
The handful of sick students who remained at the school were tested for a variety of flu strains. If they're found to have a known human strain that would rule out swine flu.
Results could take several days. In the meantime, the school says it's postponing an evening event and sanitizing the building over the weekend.
Mexican authorities said 60 people may have died from a swine flu virus in Mexico, and world health officials worry it could unleash a global flu epidemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
BreakingNews Japan is on alert because the swine flu outbreak; Narita airport will check the health of every passenger flying from Mexico City.
The quarantine station of Narita decided to use thermographic imaging to check the temperatures of passengers arriving from Mexico.
If only we were smart enough to do this.
Yeah, would be racial profiling in the US.
WHO (World Health Organization) had a big meeting today and came out with an announcement that said this particular flu appears to have the ability to participate in a pandemic ~ that is, it's an Olympic Class athlete among flu viruses, and, with 8 out of 90 who've been diagnosed as having the disease dropping dead, we already have a 9% deathrate.
That's pretty serious.
With no one having any natural immunity to any swine flu virus of any kind, it's possible everybody could catch this one ~ but Tamiflu seems to work in some cases (they hope).
Well, they got a first hand introduction into "international customs" didn't they?
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