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Flu outbreak being investigated at a school in St Lucia
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| Published on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Email To Friend Print Version
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CASTRIES, St Lucia -- The Ministries of Health and Education in St Lucia are presently involved in the investigation of an outbreak of flu-like illness at a secondary school in the north of the island. A number of students from one form of that school reported to school with flu-like symptoms.
All students involved have since been treated and advised to remain home for at least one week. There is no confirmation of H1N1 influenza up to this point, but the pattern of this outbreak reportedly fits the patterns which have been noted in previous H1N1 Influenza outbreaks.
In keeping with the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, the Ministry of Health in St Lucia said it is removing the focus from reporting individual cases of confirmed H1N1 infections, to reporting on clusters of cases of flu-like illness.
Recognizing that schools provide an ideal setting for the spread of flu like viruses, the Ministry of Education has taken a number of steps to increase sensitization of students, staff and parents to ways of limiting the spread of flu-like viruses. | | | | Reads : 888 | | | |
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