Breaking on Fox...NYC Students 8 of 9 presumptive positive for Swine Flu

[rondaben]

On tv now...

Breaking on Fox...8 of 9 samples from NYC students testing presumptive positive for Swine flu...

[strudel nut]

awww crap :shock:

[kelee877]

On tv now...

Breaking on Fox...8 of 9 samples from NYC students testing presumptive positive for Swine flu...


They have tested positive for swine flu, but it is this deadly one going around...in another post here..the news report says yes they tested positive....but it would take a couple more days to test for the mutated version...

[cider]

Did you just hear him say treatment manditory? I heard something but not the whole comment.

[firebird]

Where's our large carp picture?

[Jubilee on Earth]

My guess is that it HAS to be the same exact strain. What are the odds that it's different? Timing is too coincidental...

[rondaben]

They have tested positive for swine flu, but it is this deadly one going around...in another post here..the news report says yes they tested positive....but it would take a couple more days to test for the mutated version...

Considering the unlikely exposure to pigs in NYC and the etiology in Texas and Mexico City I would say yes, it would. They are now also saying they may recommend closing schools in NYC.

[3-L's]

MANDATORY TREATMENT?????????

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHEEEEEEET

Time to recheck and repack the BOB

[wschaub]

I know of a few people that have gotten sick in the last day or two in the church. I hope it's not this. , as a matter of fact I've heard of people getting sick all over in different states with similar symptoms. haven't heard of anyone dead yet..

[kelee877]

Considering the unlikely exposure to pigs in NYC and the etiology in Texas and Mexico City I would say yes, it would. They are now also saying they may recommend closing schools in NYC.

Thank You...I am so brain dead from reading all of this news today...maybe time for a cup of tea.....

and after listening to the CDC show about the meeting the WHO had...and learning nothing new from listening to it...

I should know better...government lying through their eye teeth....

[rondaben]

HERE IS THE EXACT QUOTE:

"...For people who are not seriously ill and do not have an underlying illness such as diabetes or heart disease the elderly or the very young, it does not appear that treatment would be mandatory AT THIS TIME but anyone with an underlying condition...should be treated"

[momof23goats]

Ok just what 2 days ago it started in this country, it takes 7 days to come down with this. and now a whole school in nyc, has this. some thing isn't right here with this at all.

[Guardian]

It's had a long head start.

Here's my thing...if it's spreading in the states but not killing anyone, then I'm holding off on being overly concerned.

[cider]

HERE IS THE EXACT QUOTE:

"...For people who are not seriously ill and do not have an underlying illness such as diabetes or heart disease the elderly or the very young, it does not appear that treatment would be mandatory AT THIS TIME but anyone with an underlying condition...should be treated"

Thank you. I knew I heard the word mandatory but I didn't catch the whole thing.

Hmmm...AT THIS TIME???

[just me]

My question is, where did these kids go on spring break??? Lots of kids head to the Mexican beaches for spring break.

[kelee877]

Ok just what 2 days ago it started in this country, it takes 7 days to come down with this. and now a whole school in nyc, has this. some thing isn't right here with this at all.


kansas also according to another new thread...

[JDSeese]

It's had a long head start.

Here's my thing...if it's spreading in the states but not killing anyone, then I'm holding off on being overly concerned.



+1000

Please hold on to your towel and refer to the cover of the guide - DON'T PANIC

[TonyE]

Oh man… I just had a pork dish at a Cuban Restaurant! :shock:

[leedaisy]

+1000

Please hold on to your towel and refer to the cover of the guide - DON'T PANIC



hahahahhahahah! Thanks, I needed that! Time to re-read that!

[Ben Sunday]

2 swine flus in Kan., US total 11; 8 likely in NYC


Apr 25, 11:21 PM (ET)

By VERENA DOBNIK



NEW YORK (AP) - Two cases of the human swine influenza have been confirmed in Kansas and one more in California, bringing the U.S. total to 11. At least eight students at a New York City high school probably have swine flu also, but health officials said Saturday they don't know whether they have the same strain of the virus that has killed people in Mexico.

New York Gov. David Paterson on Saturday directed the state Department of Health to mobilize its infectious-diseases, epidemiology and disaster preparedness workers to monitor and respond to possible cases of the flu. He said 1,500 treatment courses of the antiviral Tamiflu had been sent to New York City.
A strain of the flu has killed as many as 81 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico, where authorities have extended school closures in the capital and two neighboring states with outbreaks. The World Health Organization chief said Saturday the strain has "pandemic potential" and it may be too late to contain a sudden outbreak.

Kansas health officials said Saturday they had confirmed swine flu in a married couple living in the central part of the state after the husband visited Mexico. The couple, who live in Dickinson County, were not hospitalized, and the state described their illnesses as mild.

Dr. Jason Eberhart-Phillips, the state health officer, said, "Fortunately, the man and woman understand the gravity of the situation and are very willing to isolate themselves."
The man traveled to Mexico last week for a professional conference and became ill after returning home. His wife became ill later. Their doctor suspected swine flu, but it wasn't confirmed until flu specimens were flown to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A flu viruses, the CDC's Web site says. Human cases of swine flu are uncommon but can happen in people who are around pigs and can be spread from person to person. Symptoms of the flu include a fever of more than 100 degrees, body aches, coughing, a sore throat, respiratory congestion and, in some cases, vomiting and diarrhea.

At least nine swine flu cases have been reported in California and Texas. The new California case, the seventh there, was a 35-year-old Imperial County woman who was hospitalized but recovered. The woman, whose illness began in early April, had no known contact with the other cases.

The 11 U.S. swine flu victims range in age from 9 to over 50. All recovered or are recovering; at least two were hospitalized.
Health officials are worried because people appear to have no immunity to the virus, a combination of bird, swine and human influenzas. Also, the virus presents itself like other swine flus, but none of the U.S. cases appears to involve direct contact with pigs, said Eberhart-Phillips, who called the strain "a completely novel virus."

"It appears to be able to transmit easily between humans," Eberhart-Phillips said. "It's something that could potentially become very big, and we're only seeing, potentially, the very beginning of a widespread outbreak." New York health officials said more than 100 students at the private St. Francis Preparatory School, in Queens, had come down with a fever, sore throat and other aches and pains in the past few days. Some of their relatives also have been ill. New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said nose and throat swabs had confirmed that eight students had a non-human strain of influenza type A, indicating probable cases of swine flu, but the exact subtypes were still unknown.

Samples had been sent to the CDC for more testing. Results were expected Sunday.

Parent Elaine Caporaso's 18-year-old son Eddie, a senior at the school, had a fever and cough and went to a hospital where a screening center had been set up.

"I don't know if there is an incubation period, if I am contaminated," Caporaso told the Daily News. "I don't want my family to get sick, and I don't want to get anybody else sick."

The symptoms in the New York cases have been mild, Frieden said, but the illnesses have caused concern because of the deadly outbreak in Mexico, where classes in Mexico City, neighboring Mexico state and the northern state of San Luis Potosi have been canceled until May 6 and where up to 81 deaths are suspected and 20 have been confirmed.

Frieden said that if the CDC confirms that the New York students have swine flu, he will likely recommend that the school remain closed Monday "out of an abundance of caution." One factor, he said, is that the illness appears to be moving efficiently from person to person, affecting as many as 100 to 200 people in a student body of 2,700. "We're very concerned about what may happen," he said, although he noted that the pattern of illness appeared different from in Mexico, where much larger groups of people have become much sicker. Overall, he said, flu cases have been declining in the city in recent weeks.

The school was being sanitized over the weekend but still was holding a reunion featuring cocktails, dinner and dancing for hundreds of alumni from as far back as 1939. A health department spokeswoman said the sanitization was just a precaution because it's not really the environment that passes the flu.

Alumna Joyce Kal, of the Class of 1979, said she wasn't worried about getting sick. "I did think about it, but I didn't, you know, worry, because if it's the kids, I don't think it's going to linger," said Kal, a physical therapist from the Bayside neighborhood.
The city health department has asked doctors to be extra vigilant in the coming days and test any patients who have flu-like symptoms and have traveled recently to California, Texas or Mexico.

Investigators also were testing children who fell ill at a day care center in the Bronx, Frieden said. And two families in Manhattan had contacted the city, saying they had recently returned ill from Mexico with flu-like symptoms.

Frieden said New Yorkers having trouble breathing due to an undiagnosed respiratory illness should seek treatment but shouldn't become overly alarmed. Medical facilities in the part of Queens near St. Francis Prep, he said, had already been flooded with people overreacting to the outbreak.

--- Associated Press writer John Hanna contributed to this report from Topeka, Kan.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090426/D97PT6J80.html

[ElGato]

NEW YORK CITY!!!

not good. :shock:

[LibertyNotDeath]

It's had a long head start.

Here's my thing...if it's spreading in the states but not killing anyone, then I'm holding off on being overly concerned.

It's up to 11 people now confirmed, and they think there are a lot more in NY possibly in other areas too.

It's EXTREMELY contagious, and acts very fast, it has mutated and is not just communicable from swine, but now transfers from human to human.

Oh, and it's KILLED 81 people in Mexico now.

[Sunflower]

Ok....not to downplay all the flu worries, but please remember.....This is the USA....not Mexico....we have better living conditions and healthcare than them. I know it is not "the best healthcare" by far, but it really is better than Mexico.

I would not panic unless I started seeing deaths in the USA. I work in the ER and we are still seeing LOTS of Influenza A and B, still! Most have fever, chills, headache, body aches, poor appetite. Most are uncomfortable, but tolerating the symptoms with rest and fluids and fever management.

Please do not get yourself in a panic....be cautious, but remember....NO deaths in the USA.....until then, just be calm and cautious....

If you do visit the ER with flu symptoms, do not expect a cure. All we provide is fever management (you can take tylenol at home), maybe tamiflu (only within 24 hrs of symptoms), and occasionally IV fluids if we think you are dehydrated (most are not). So don't run to the ER and expect a cure.....we don't offer much, except perhaps a secondary infection from all the other sick people visiting the ER. :shock:

Best advice....try to rest, take fever medicine, light diet, and lots of fluids.....If you have shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, then come to the ER for help, otherwise you may be disappointed with the care you get in the ER. We have little to offer for the FLU......best to all....:-D