Nassau County confirms case of swine flu

Does anyone know where in Nassau?

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I am not sure..but I work at St. Johns in Qns and today we got an email saying a student has it but has recovered...
Alot of our students live in Nassau

Re: Nassau County confirms case of swine flu

The County's Department of Health Commissioner,Maria Torroella Carney, MD is announcing the first confirmed case of swine influenza there Tuesday night.

The patient is associated with St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens.

Officials say the patient has a mild illness and is home.

As of tonight, Nassau County has one confirmed case of swine flu, no other probable cases, and no hospitalized cases.

"We are urging all residents to be prepared, not scared," said County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi.

Suozzi advised individuals to protect themselves and prevent the spread of illness by doing the following:


- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
- Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
- Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
- If you get sick, stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

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the newest "probable" one is a 10 year old girl in Suffolk, who when to a track meet in Astoria...they are looking into her case.

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Posted by Michi

I am not sure..but I work at St. Johns in Qns and today we got an email saying a student has it but has recovered...
Alot of our students live in Nassau

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On Google I found this...

Apr 29, 2009 ... Officials confirm swine flu case in Great Neck ... Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi urges residents not to be scared. ...

It's on Channel 12 news website.. I have Verizon Fios though, so I can't access the site for more info..

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Yep.. Great Neck...

Swine Flu hits Nassau County

Amid heightening fears that swine flu is spreading, a second Queens school closed Tuesday as health authorities raised the number of confirmed flu cases across the nation to 66 - 45 of them from New York - and the head of the CDC said he "fully expects" to see deaths from the outbreak.

"I would say I am very concerned," said Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We are dealing with a new strain of influenza . . . that appears to be moving through our community."

A student who resides in Great Neck was identified as one of 45 confirmed cases associated with St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, the epicenter of cases in New York State. Nassau County Health Commissioner Dr. Maria Torroella Carney said she learned about the student Tuesday. "It was part of the New York City investigation," she said. Carney said the student had a mild case, is nearly recovered and should be able to go back to school next week.

City officials said they are determining whether 12 students at PS 177, a school for autistic children near St. Francis, are carrying the viral strain. Five other cases include a Bronx toddler who remained hospitalized, and a Brooklyn woman, who was released. Both are being investigated as "probable" swine flu infections, health officials said.

Six children at a Catholic school in upper Manhattan have flu symptoms, which the city is also investigating. City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said the apparent outbreak at PS 177 could represent a second cluster associated with the outbreak at nearby St. Francis. Of PS 177's 380 students, 82 called in sick, city officials said. Frieden said one of the sick students has two siblings at St. Francis, and that "many hundreds of students were ill with symptoms, which look like they were swine flu."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said "there are these common threads that run through either connections to St. Francis or back to Mexico." The illness there has been more severe than in the United States and other countries, and is suspected to have killed 149 and sickened thousands.

But it's not all about numbers, Besser said. He and others are less interested in the number of cases - which they expect to rise - than in how the virus behaves and changes:

Why does the virus seem more virulent in Mexico than elsewhere?

Is it possible that the virus will be mild in an initial wave, but stronger in a follow-up outbreak?

Does it affect certain people - young, old, male, female - more than others?

Although the outbreak remains still "pre-pandemic," Besser said health authorities remained on the offensive. President Barack Obama asked Congress for $1.5 billion to help build stockpiles of anti-viral drugs, work on vaccines and coordinate U.S. response with other governments.

Meanwhile, state health commissioner Dr. Richard Daines said New York had received kits from the CDC that will allow the department to more quickly confirm suspected cases without sending them to the CDC in Atlanta. He said there were 32 suspected flu cases - not in New York City - that the state would test to confirm. Suffolk has four suspected cases. No cases from Nassau are being tested.

Nationally, the CDC said five people have been hospitalized with the virus, two from Texas and three from California, where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday declared a state of emergency. California officials have confirmed 13 cases of swine flu and Los Angeles County Coroner's officials were investigating two deaths as possibly related.

Globally, 79 cases had been confirmed from seven countries, including Canada, Israel, Spain, New Zealand and Britain. Suspected cases were being investigated in another 14 countries.

The World Health Organization said a pandemic - a global outbreak of a serious new illness - is not yet inevitable but that all countries should prepare for the worst, especially poorer developing nations. WHO isn't recommending travel restrictions, but Japan Tuesday suspended visa-free entry for Mexican nationals. Asian countries, including Singapore and South Korea, are screening air passengers. The United States, Canada and the European Union are telling people to avoid nonessential travel to Mexico; Cuba suspended all flights to and from Mexico for 48 hours.

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Great Neck

Did you read my other post about how the WHO raised the level to 5 - pandemic imminent?

I just heard on the news that a probable case in a 10 yr old girl in Deer Park is being investigated.

Message edited 4/29/2009 6:30:40 PM.

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I knew "The Suoz" would be all over this.

I saw him like 50 times on the news today!