Post by Paddy by Grace on Apr 25, 2009 9:02:47 GMT -7
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NEW YORK (AFP) — Many of the some 75 students at a New York private school who have been treated for flu-like symptoms recently traveled to Mexico, but no swine flu case has been confirmed, US media reported Saturday.
The students at St. Francis Preparatory School in the New York City borough of Queens "had complained Thursday of nausea, fever, dizziness and aches and pains," the New York Times reported, citing officials from the local health department.
"Several of the students were said to have recently traveled to Mexico," where as many as 60 people have died in an outbreak of multi-strain swine flu in recent weeks, it added.
The department sent investigators to the school Friday after officials thought their symptoms "were consistent with a strain of swine flu that has swept Mexico City."
Authorities were "sanitizing" the school as a precaution, CNN television reported Saturday, adding that no swine flu case had been confirmed.
In Mexico, authorities shut several public venues as the main outbreak hit the capital, Mexico City, with between 18 and 20 confirmed deaths due to the virus. There were also deaths in the central city of San Luis Potosi, with three fatalities, and in Mexicali on the US border.
The virus detected in 12 fatal Mexican cases is also genetically identical to that which affected eight people in the US states of California and Texas, though all of those recovered.
NEW YORK (AFP) — Many of the some 75 students at a New York private school who have been treated for flu-like symptoms recently traveled to Mexico, but no swine flu case has been confirmed, US media reported Saturday.
The students at St. Francis Preparatory School in the New York City borough of Queens "had complained Thursday of nausea, fever, dizziness and aches and pains," the New York Times reported, citing officials from the local health department.
"Several of the students were said to have recently traveled to Mexico," where as many as 60 people have died in an outbreak of multi-strain swine flu in recent weeks, it added.
The department sent investigators to the school Friday after officials thought their symptoms "were consistent with a strain of swine flu that has swept Mexico City."
Authorities were "sanitizing" the school as a precaution, CNN television reported Saturday, adding that no swine flu case had been confirmed.
In Mexico, authorities shut several public venues as the main outbreak hit the capital, Mexico City, with between 18 and 20 confirmed deaths due to the virus. There were also deaths in the central city of San Luis Potosi, with three fatalities, and in Mexicali on the US border.
The virus detected in 12 fatal Mexican cases is also genetically identical to that which affected eight people in the US states of California and Texas, though all of those recovered.