Health Officials Investigate Illness at Queens Private School 75 students symptoms swine flu

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/nyregion/25sick.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

The New York City health department dispatched a team of investigators to a private school in Queens on Friday after dozens of students complained of symptoms that officials believed were consistent with a strain of swine flu that has swept Mexico City.

Mexico Shuts Some Schools Amid Deadly Flu Outbreak (April 25, 2009) The agency said about 75 students at St. Francis Preparatory School had complained Thursday of nausea, fever, dizziness and aches and pains. Several of the students were said to have recently traveled to Mexico, where as many as 61 people have died and possibly hundreds more have been infected in an outbreak of swine flu in recent weeks.

To control the epidemic, Mexican officials have shut museums and closed schools in and around the capital.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that eight cases have been diagnosed in the United States, six in California and two in Texas.

In New York City, health officials said that doctors and investigators were sent to St. Francis Preparatory as a precautionary measure, and that tests were being conducted in an effort to rule out swine flu as the cause of the students’ symptoms.

“The health department will continue to work closely with students, parents and school officials to monitor the situation,” the agency said in a statement.


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NYC Heath Department: 75 kids sickened at 1 school





Associated Press - April 24, 2009 11:33 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) - 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.

[Usrename]

1. Yikes!

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[aquart]

3. They're just ruling it out (if they can). Doesn't mean that's what it is.

Been a really bad day in Queens. 75 sick kids and a house blows up and kills a mother of 3. Not our usual.

Doesn't sound like any of the kids are at death's door, though. May that continue.

Because I really don't like the demo that the swine flu is killing in Mexico. It's the pandemic demo.

[undergroundpanther]

2. Ya know what bugs me

Time and again while I am out and about people tell me about a bug going around. People coughing,sneezing,blowing noses,it seems so many people are dealing with a low grade cold-like sickness for a long time.Or getting these symptoms more often.

I see more people with cold/flu symptoms in public nowadays than I ever remembered seeing like even 5 years ago.

As for me I had no flu this year,I got vaccinated,but I have has for over a year occasional coughs with green or yellow phlegm and very slight nasal symptoms that never seem to go away entirely.
Dunno why. Not allergic.
The only time it isn't there is after a round of antibiotics taken for something else. weird.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. A few things that should rest your mind a bit

1. People sneezing/blowing noses - do in overwhelming likelihood, NOT have the flu.

2. Low-grade cold-like sickness sounds just like what it is. A cold. NOT the flu.

3. Influenza is caused by a VIRUS and antibiotics have NO effect whatsoever on viruses. Logic suggests there's a possibility you may have a bacterial respiratory infection. Please speak to you physician and (not to scare you) get a TB test as well. Lest you freak out, TB is not usually a big deal anymore with proper care and if you take your medicine, so don't sweat it. Easy-peasy.

4. You see more people walking around with colds now because more of them have no choice. They can't afford to stay home.

5. Just because you were not allergic in the past doesn't mean you're not now.

[undergroundpanther]

6. I know I don't have TB

Was tested a while ago came up negatory.. My docs are kept up on any drainage or flu or strep stuff with me because I cannot let my throat swell up. I have a huge bone spur in my neck poking into my esophagus bending it.If my esophagus gets scraped by the bone too much I could bleed to death.
I get nasty barium swallow tests every 6 months,I go to a spine neurologist too.My whole spine looks like I am mutating into an alien it looks cool on an xray but sucks in reality.
If my throat swells past a certain point I cannot swallow,water will swirl around and go nowhere. I have to spit it out. Once a sore throat caused by sinus drainage sent me to the ER because I could not swallow and my breathing became really hard,I was only getting 70% oxygen intake.I have had my tonsils taken out and my soft palate shortened to facilitate a more open throat.

So if I get any sort of sore throat and swelling I get mine ass to my doctor fast.

[aquart]

5. Not weird. Bacterial.

You really need to talk to your doctor and knock that bugger out. Most of our doctors are only looking for strep. But I remember having something like that for over six months only MY doctor had done some damn reading and he knew it was bacterial. He made it go away.

Right now it looks like you're not fighting it with the right stuff and it just takes a blow with the antibiotics for other things but comes right back.

[undergroundpanther]

7. I have taken antibiotics for this

several times,I dunno what could kill it. I have two minor infections that don't get bad and don't clear up. Antibiotics knock it out temporarily. Then it's back.One is with my skin,another the post nasal stuff.

I have had mycoplasma incognitus. It almost killed me. I think having that and taking very strong antibiotics when my doctor did not know what it was(this was in the late 80's and the test had to be sent overseas)and until he got it back he did not know to give me Erythromycin .The mycoplasma infection and all those other ineffective antibiotics I took fucked up my body my skin,my lungs it was a severe infection lasted over a month..

I take good bacteria everyday with an enteric coating on it,and a shit load of vitamins my endocrinologist prescribes but if I take a round of antibiotics the fungal issue flares up.I have to take anti fungals and step up the bacteria as soon as the antibiotic course is over, my "insurance" is stingy with the anti fungals.It sucks

Here's an article about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/16/science/the-doctor-s-world-unusual-microbe-once-dismissed-is-not-taken-more-seriously.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[Marblehead]

8. antibiotics

are very hard on the body. Try echinacea (natural antibiotic, that also works on viruses) and drink coconut milk to keep fungus and yeast under control as well as pro biotic. The echinacea looses effectiveness after a couple of weeks...also throw in some vitamin c

[seemslikeadream]

9. Students reported flu-like symptoms after several had reportedly returned from Mexico,

http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/nyregion/25sick.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26hp&OP=21f6607eQ2FsQ3FJisU8Q26ge88Q51Q7CsQ7CQ3AQ3A3sQ3AQ2AsQ7C4syGeJNQ5E8ysQ7C4gQ5EQ26WQ25Q7DQ51aZ




http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24449988.htm


Most Mexico fatal flu victims aged between 25-45

MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - The majority of the people killed in Mexico's fatal flu outbreak were adults between 25 and 45 years old, a Mexican health official said on Friday.

"The majority were young adults between 25 and 45 years old," the official said under the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press.

Mexican officials said 20 people had been killed by the outbreak in Mexico and 1,004 people had been infected.

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10. kick