Good Grief - latest swine flu info.
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Good Grief - latest swine flu info.
| 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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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
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.
Mexico's Death Toll jumps to 19.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090503/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/med_swine_flu
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