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Collin County Swine Flu update - May 4

05/04/09

10:09:29 am, by bill

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Categories: News Clippings, pandemic flu, Public Health

Collin County Swine Flu update - May 4

Collin County Health Advisory: Swine Influenza

As of Monday morning, May 4, 2009, this is the count on Swine Influenza from Collin County’s health authority:

Confirmed Cases: 1
Probable Cases: 3
Schools Closed: 3

Health authorities confirmed the first local case of Swine Flu, a 14-year-old Plano middle school student, after test results were verified by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control last week.

According to Collin County Health Care Services and the Plano Health Authority a student at Wilson Middle School is the only confirmed case of H1N1? Influenza, with two more “probable” cases in the county under investigation by health authorities.

The Plano Independent School District announced Sunday, May 3, that Barron Early Childhood School and Sigler Elementary School will be closed until May 18, due to a few strong probable cases of Influenza A H1N1? virus (swine flu). Wilson Middle School, originally schedule to be closed until May 11, will also remain closed until May 18.

The two-week closures are based on U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommendations because children are likely to be infectious for about 7–10 days after the onset of illness.

Residents are advised to take a few preventative measures to protect themselves against this respiratory disease.

Collin County Health Care Services (CCHCS) is working closely with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to provide guidance for the public and health providers.

For Collin County buildings, our Facilities Management staff is taking extra precautions in sanitizing public, employee and common areas to help lessen the spread of Swine Flu Housekeeping personnel will clean all areas with a disinfecting solution several times during the work day, as well after their regular hours routine.

Collin County Epidemiology, Health Department, and Homeland Security staff members will continue to provide updates and guidelines for health care providers, and school administrators. We will continue to update this page daily until public health concerns over Swine Flu subside.

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Comment from: Scot Walker [Visitor]

The typical year in the USA has between 30,000 and 50,000 deaths because of the Flu.

It seems that the mortality rate of this "swine" flu is no worse than the one that hits the world every single year, which is 1 in 1,000.

Remember the Summer of Sharks where the media had the nation thinking sharks were killing more people in our oceans and they blamed it on "Global Warming" and/or over-fishing (it was our fault, whatever the reason)? Turns out that summer had the typical number of shark attacks.

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Comment from: Eric Barna [Visitor]

Scot, I'm the same way. I also find it funny, for example, WFAA scares people into believing the hype yet practically begs people into a public gathering to see "The Rumble In The Plaza" between Hansen and Delkus.

The only swine I'm worried about is the feral hog population that appears to be growing exponentially at a rate we can't contain.

Permalink 05/05/09 @ 09:25

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Collin County Swine Flu update - May 4

05/04/09

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