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Kootenai County’s second case of Novel H1N1 flu was confirmed Monday by the Idaho State Laboratory, bringing the state’s total cases to nine. The patient, who is no longer contagious, is a student at Ramsey Elementary School in Coeur d’Alene. The child did not attend school while ill. The Coeur d’Alene School District sent letters home with Ramsey Elementary students notifying parents of the H1N1 case and asking them to monitor their children for symptoms. The letters ask parents to keep children with symptoms home for seven days and consult a health provider. The district also planned additional disinfecting tonight of all commonly touched surfaces, such as doorknobs and railings. Health officials believe the H1N1 virus infected the student during recent family travels out of state by car. No one else in the family has symptoms. The student was ill for three days and has recovered without hospitalization/Cynthia Taggart, Panhandle Health District.
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JeanieSpokane on May 18 at 4:06 p.m.
ok - this is what bothers me about the swine flu. If the “normal” flu kills 36,000 a year, which is 98.6 a day, why does the **fourth** death in the whole nation in the last two months of swine-flu-ism rate the news and not the 98.6 a day? I don’t understand this. Really.
Cabbage Boy on May 18 at 4:12 p.m.
Follow the $$s Jeanie. I posted this back in the peak of the hype, but here it is again.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx
JarodS on May 18 at 8:32 p.m.
Seems scary to me!