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Health officials are investigating a mysterious outbreak of flu-like illness at a San Diego school where more than 100 children called in sick.
Nearly a quarter of the sixth-graders at Oak Valley Middle School were absent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Poway Unified School District official Bill Chiment (Shih-MENT') says the sixth-graders were at camp last week when more than 20 got sick and went home early.

Concern grew as more students than usual went absent this week and parents reported symptoms of colds, fevers, flu or strep throat.

Chiment says some children had doctor's notes indicating possible swine flu. But San Diego County Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten says there's no confirmed diagnosis yet.


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Nearly 200 students are sick at a local middle school, and 10News learned some of those students have tested positive for swine flu.

Sources told 10News' Juliette Vara that the students from Oak Valley Middle School in Poway began reporting flu-like symptoms during a camping trip last week.

Since then, the number of children missing class due to illness has skyrocketed.

According to sources, 20 to 25 sixth-grade students went home ill from a camping trip last week. The students were living in dorms, and school officials think that initiated the spread of the illness.

"On Monday and Tuesday, half the class was gone," said one student.

"We have heard some of the doctors have diagnosed kids with H1N1," said Poway Unified School District Associate Superintendent Bill Chiment.

According to Chimient, the illness is confined only to the sixth-grade class.

On any given day, school officials said the average number of kids in a specific grade that call in sick to school are between 20 and 30.

On Monday, 131 children in the 6th grade called in sick. On Tuesday, the number was 103. Wednesday's number was 103. That is out of a total of 461 sixth-grade students at Oak Valley.

"This isn't the plague; it's not worrisome," said parent Debi Renkin.

The Poway Unified School District is not taking any chances and is working closely with the County Health Department. So far, the district said it does not know the exact number of confirmed swine flu cases.

"I haven't seen an increase in absences in seventh or eighth grades, even slightly," said Chiment.

School officials are working with the health department to contact every parent with a child out sick to determine the exact reason why and to make a decision on whether or not to close the school.

Health officials said they would consider closing the school if 30 percent of the students are absent due to illness.

The health department said it has received no confirmation from any doctor that a child at Oak Valley has the swine flu, but warned that it is still possible.

http://www.10news.com/news/21232841/detail.html

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"mysterious outbreak of flu-like illness"


Ohhhh the "mystery".

WT?!

Five swine flu cases confirmed at local schools *from VVDailypress.com*

Official says virus behaving like 'ordinary flu'
October 01, 2009

VICTORVILLE • Two high school staff members and one middle school student are staying home this week after contracting swine flu confirmed by their doctors, according to school officials.
Early Thursday, Victor Valley Union High School District Superintendent Marilou Ryder sent a memo to all staff members notifying them of the swine flu cases, which she said include one Cobalt Middle School student and two Silverado High School classified workers. Their symptoms are behaving like an “ordinary flu” and do not appear serious, according to Ryder.

“We don’t want people to panic,” said Ryder, though she noted that three cases could quickly spread to 300 if not contained. The district also notified the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health and planned to send an automatic phone message to all parents on Thursday afternoon.
A few weeks ago one elementary school student and one teacher in the Snowline Joint Unified School District were also confirmed to have the swine flu, or H1N1 virus, but they healed quickly and were back in school within a day or two, according to spokeswoman Kathy Sharkey.
School officials urge any student with flu-like symptoms to stay home from school. They’re also asking for donations of hand sanitizer and bath tissue for classrooms.

Swine flu sickens three at middle school
2:00 a.m. October 14, 2009


NORTH COUNTY: At least two sixth-graders and one adult at Oak Valley Middle School in 4S Ranch were sickened by swine flu, public health officials said yesterday.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/ ... h%20county

Otay Mesa girl, 5, dies of swine flu

SAN DIEGO – A 5-year-old girl with no underlying medical conditions has died of swine flu, San Diego County health officials said Wednesday.
The girl, whose identity was not made public, was a student at Howard Pence Elementary School in Otay Mesa.
She was taken to Rady Children's Hospital Friday evening after suffering from flu symptoms for two days, said Dr. John Bradley, a pediatrician and director of the hospital's division of infectious disease.
After sitting in a waiting room for about an hour, the girl became much sicker, started crying and passed out, Bradley said. Her heart stopped, and she was rushed into the emergency room.
Medical personnel resuscitated her, but they could not keep the girl's heart beating, Bradley said. She was pronounced dead about 1 a.m. Saturday.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/ ... dex=182778

Influenza hits hard at San Marin High in Novato

More than 175 students at San Marin High School in Novato were sickened with influenza-like illnesses this week, school officials said.

On Monday, 167 students at the 1,000-student high school at 15 San Marin Drive stayed home, school officials said. The problem grew worse Tuesday, when 175 students called in ill. On Wednesday, the student population began to rebound, with 128 students out sick, Principal Robert Vieth said.

"It's getting better," said Vieth, who said his staff believed the outbreak to be mostly seasonal influenza cases, with only a few dozen of the students likely suffering from the H1N1 virus.

In addition to San Marin, officials with the Dixie School District also reported higher-than-average absenteeism, with 53 of the district's 1,800 students out sick.

http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_13562786

http://ledger-dispatch.com/news/newsview.asp?c=261719



This should not reassure any parent in that county.

When 5-year-old Alitza Ortiz Sanchez arrived at a local hospital emergency room last week, she wasn't suffering from some of the most common flu symptoms, her mother said Thursday.

In fact, Sanchez had been diagnosed with a urinary infection the day before by a doctor in Tijuana. She had a persistent headache and purplish swelling around her eyes, but no fever, sore throat, cough or runny nose.

“We didn't think it was the flu,” said her mother, Itzya Sanchez, 29.

A test conducted after Alitza arrived at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego revealed that Alitza was infected with the H1N1 virus, but the results arrived after the girl had suffered the first of what would be four heart failures.

Alitza died early Saturday.

Sanchez and Alitza's father, Miguel Ortiz, were driving to Tijuana on Thursday afternoon for a wake. Most of their relatives live in that city.

Alitza will be buried there Friday, wearing a red princess dress from the movie “Beauty and the Beast.”

“For Halloween, she wanted to be a princess, so we bought her a new one” for the funeral, Sanchez said.
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/ ... dex=183499

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