Widespread Pandemic H1N1 School Outbreaks in Southern US, page 1

A total of 122 Camden County High School students visited the school nurse's office and several of those were sent home because they were displaying flu-like symptoms on Monday, she said.

There are also two elementary schools - Mamie Lou Gross Elementary and St. Marys Elementary - that reported sending home a high number of students home after they were confirmed to have flu-like symptoms. Mamie Lou Gross Elementary off Harrietts Bluff Road has been reporting fevers and St. Marys Elementary students are suffering from stomach symptoms.

"When I spoke with the office at Mamie Lou Gross Elementary, they had 12 students waiting to see the school nurse at that moment," Smiley said. "There have been a lot of fevers hitting these schools very hard."

Elaine Smiley, health systems coordinator for the school district, said about 10 percent of the estimated 1,000 Camden Middle School enrollment was absent Tuesday from the outbreak.

School nurses have also seen an increase in children who have flu-like symptoms, including fevers of more than 100 degrees, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing, she said. Other symptoms include runny nose, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

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And so it begins.
I wonder if the children are being vaccinated yet, forcibly or willingly?

reply to post by warrenb

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Interesting but I live in the south and I have not heard anything in my neck of the woods so far since the school started.

Interesting also that I worked with the school system for 9 years, every new school year we got sick kids with fever all the time, many times I got vomit on my shoes from the children. I also got strep throat three times in one year and never was attributed to anything more than just a "bug"

Now everything seems to be The swine flu.

What a joke.

reply to post by kozmo

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Of course that is exactly what is happening.
Welcome aboard!

reply to post by DazE777

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My grandkids started school on August 5. Sheesh! There's still an entire months worth of going to the lake everyday to swim and play for pete's sake.
My grandson's school has been closed all this week due to H1N1. Only one confirmed case, though. The rest of the many cases, including not only students, but 19 teachers as well, are unconfirmed because the local medical personnel have been told not to test. Why? Well, if everyone tests everyone, then the system will be overloaded and the labs can't peform efficiently. Heh. So they tested the first kid, and said, yep, it's H1N1, let's close the school for a week and see what happens.

My oldest granddaughter, who goes to a different school, but in the same county, has been home all week from an illness. It's definitely flu-like. I have the same symptoms myself. Not much sense in taking her to the doctor though. It's not like she will be given any sort of tests. And, get this, last week, my grandson was one of the first to be sent home with suspected H1N1 virus. My daugther took him to the doctor, naw, no need for tests. He's sick and probably has it. Um, medical aid? Naw. Just keep him home until his fever is gone and send him back to school. And I did take him back to school in a couple of days and I was immediately called to pick him up because he coughed once. Now this week, he is fine. Playing and having a great time, a week off and not even being sick. lol.

I wonder what will happen next week? Whooping cough and closing school again? I heard on the radio this morning that whooping cough has invaded central KY as well.

I'm just going to toss this out here. Why not let the kiddies spend August, baking in the sun and enjoying themselves. Most people around here take vacations in July. And they visit other places, pick up germs and such things that they are not used to. How about keeping August as a period where these kiddies can get over it all, before crowding them into closed up school rooms?

Meanwhile, next June these kids will be held over for school well into the end of June, go on a vacation, and then return to school within just a few weeks.

Oh God, save me. Its the flu. Like every southern U.S. citizen hasn't dealth with that one before. Hide the women and children!


Nothing to see here people, move along.

Season flu stats from: www.cdc.gov...
Every year in the United States, on average:

5% to 20% of the population gets the flu;
more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications; and
about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.


H1N1 graph of infection/mortality:
en.wikipedia.org...:Influenza-2009-cases-logarithmic-2.png


Season flu kills approximately 36,000 people per year.
Swine flu hasn't killed 2,000 in its entire existence yet based on the information I obtained.

Forgot to mention, they said they would be treating ALL cases as swine flu, whether it actually is or not (when i say "they" I mean the news). Just seems like they are trying as hard as they can to boost the numbers on paper. They are also blaming another death on the virus in Montgomery (where colonial was seated):

www.waff.com...

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