Flu fear closes school near Sacramento

[FourScore]

Source: Sacramento Bee

As reports of swine flu cases accelerated worldwide, Sacramento County public health and church officials temporarily closed a Catholic school in Fair Oaks on Sunday because a student there is ill with what may be the new strain of influenza.

Local testing showed the ailing teenager from St. Mel School didn't have a standard flu strain, so samples were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which could have results as early as today.

A St. Mel seventh-grader had been in Mexico during the school's Easter break, then became ill and went home early on Monday, the first day of class after the break, said Kevin Eckery, a spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento.

Two days later, an additional seventh-grader became ill and by Friday seven of the school's 40 seventh-graders were unwell, four of them with flulike symptoms, he said. One of those seventh-graders, but not the one who went to Mexico, is the student whose specimen was sent to the CDC, Eckery said...



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[xchrom]

1. recommend for our sacto-cali duers.

everyone take care.

[FirstLight]

2. crud...

I go to sac state for classes ...and live in Tahoe which has a huge hispanic population linked directly to mexico. I wonder if our little city council is watching the schools...?

time to make some phone calls...

[Garbo 2004]

3. CDC confirms swine flu in Fair Oaks student. Sacto Bee:

Published: Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 - 11:57 am

A seventh grader from a private school in Fair Oaks has tested positive for swine flu, Sacramento County public health officials confirmed this morning.

The sample from the St. Mels School student was tested at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and came back positive, making it the first confirmed sample in Northern California, county Public Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet stated in a news release.

County health officials are planning to hold a news conference at 3:30 p.m. to answer questions and release any new information that might be available, said Laura McCasland, a spokeswoman for the county Department of Health and Human Services. http://sacbee.com/1310/story/1813776.html

[cboy4]

4. Every time someone sneezes at work , my blood pressure

goes up.

EDIT: typo