Good Grief - latest swine flu info.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2007
Good Grief - latest swine flu info.
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Sat, 05-02-2009 - 6:37pm
Well, they have now told us our schools are closed for 2 weeks, until May 14th. They will reassess everything on the 9th to see if they can go back sooner. We have more probable cases that include 4 of of our 6 schools. My sons teacher is being tested for swine flu. What makes it probable is that the quick test came up positive for swine flu and that the swabs are sent to the state lab for the CDC to confirm them. Why it take so long, who knows. Sounds like his teacher does have it it just isn't confirmed. I wonder if they will let us know since she teaches our kids.


 

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Registered: 07-04-2004
Sat, 05-02-2009 - 10:30pm
I find it amazing how long it takes to confirm if it's swine flu or not. They still haven't confirmed or not the cases from here either.

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Registered: 06-24-2005
Sat, 05-02-2009 - 11:35pm
Crazy.
I find all of this fascinating because I am writing my dissertation on the polio epidemics of the 1940s and 50s. Schools were closed a lot during the epidemics then and there was a feeling of panic during those years as well, especially 1953. My supervisor wrote her dissertation on the 1918-19 influenza and published a book about it last year. She is being interviewed on a radio show about it on Monday, but I know she is tired of people asking her about the swine flu already. lol
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 12:01am

I remember reading a book when I was younger (YA fiction) that was set during the polio outbreaks.

We did some health/diseases research in my class in January, and most of them were current diseases, but 2 groups in each class researched Black Plague and the Influenza of 1918-19, and then we compared those 2 groups' findings.





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Registered: 07-04-2004
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 1:29am

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Registered: 01-15-2007
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 2:16am
Yea, I saw that on the news this evening.


 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 8:38am
They just closed four more of our schools.......so that total now is 19 in my area alone.....thats not soo good.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2004
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 9:58am
Well we have 3 schools that closed on Friday that are opening back up on Monday because they determined the cases were not swine flu. None of the cases in my state have been confirmed yet.

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Registered: 01-15-2007
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 11:15am
I know one here has been confirmed. We expect news on more today.


 

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Registered: 07-04-2004
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 11:19am
The Alabama one isn't showing up on the CDC page, but it hasn't been updated since yesterday. The Washington ones were the same day so we'll see if they show up as confirmed today or not.

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Registered: 01-15-2007
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 11:20am
Your school stil open then?


 

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