[Fwd: Re: 400 Chinese students hospitalized with unknown flu,only several dozens remained hospitalised]

[Guest guest]

Here's thelink again. did not go through the first time.

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Re: [Flu] 400 Chinese students hospitalized with

unknown flu,only several dozens remained hospitalised

Date:

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:30:23 -0400

From:

Elke <avalon@...>

Flu

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ok here ist the link.What do you all think?

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/medical/parsons.htm

Elke wrote:

I just read a research paper on the avian flu forum which indicated that the 1918 flu was preceded by an increased number of mumps and measles, then by a very mild wave of what they called the "3 day flu", which had a very low mortality rate.-I hope this is not something similar.

I will get the link to the story later.

fairpc wrote:

AFX News Limited

400 Chinese students hospitalized with unknown flu

04.02.2006, 08:52 AM

BEIJING (AFX) - Over 400 students at a university in central China's Henan province were hospitalized with high fevers linked to an unknown flu virus, state press and a school official said.

The outbreak began on March 26 when 22 students were hospitalized with high fevers, Xinhua news agency said.

The next day the number of sick students at the Henan University of Science and Technology in Luoyang city rose to 88, and on March 28 there were 208 sick students in the university's infirmary, it said.

'There were over 400 students that became feverish with the flu,' a university official who declined to be named told Agence France-Presse when contacted by phone.

He refused to detail what type of flu it was or how the outbreak had succeeded in infecting so many students.

Local health officials were currently trying to identify the flu strain, Xinhua said.

The temperatures of some of the students reached 39.6 degrees celsius, it said.

The sick students were quarantined while school officials, under directions from provincial health authorities, cancelled classes and began disinfecting the university's 2,000 dormitory rooms, dining halls and classrooms, it said.

Most students were only hospitalized for about three days and released, the report said, adding that only several dozen students remained hospitalized as of today.