Two days ago I related how 3 had been confirmed at a Boy Scout camp here in North Carolina.
I just saw this on MSNBC:
Boy Scout camp hit with positive swine flu cases
19 kids sent home with symptoms; 10 confirmed to have novel virus
RALEIGH, N.C. - Boy Scouts attending a camp near Asheville are being checked for swine flu
after at least 19 Scouts from two states were sent home with symptoms and 10 tested positive for the disease.
Camp Daniel Boone executive Connie Bowes says no new cases were reported Monday. Bowes said a total of 38 Scouts and staff reported flu-like symptoms last week and sick staffers were quarantined.
A Scout Master with a
Dunwoody, Ga., troop says
eight of his scouts tested positive for swine flu and six others reported symptoms after last week's camp stay. A health official in
Palm Beach County, Fla., says
two Florida Scouts sent home last week tested positive and test results are awaited on others.
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Again, be aware that this virus remains prevalent and this is not flu season. If you or someone you know displays flu like symptoms, get them to a facility immediately for screening.
TIP ONE: If someone displays this symptoms, it is better for THAT PERSON to wear a mask, as well as those present. The infected person should be the one primarily outfitted with a mask. Whenever we transport or work on someone with respiratory like symptoms (TB or other infectious diseases), it the infected person is masked there is a decrease in spreading those airborne illnesses.
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This is actually the very definition of a
textbook example of how diseases spread. A group of individuals clustered in one place, one infected person, the spread is from person to person, those individuals then disperse carrying the infection.
Hopefully the carriers can be identified and this can be contained.