SHOOT: Ever heard the story of the rabbit and the hare? The rabbit was over confident, and thought he was too smart for the slow tortoise. Swine flu is kinda like the tortoise. Except for one thing, it's probably faster than the hare to begin with. But er...don't panic.
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- A swine flu outbreak at Eton
College, the boarding school that educated Prince William and 18
British prime ministers, flourished because the first case was
diagnosed weeks after dozens of students fell ill.
More than 100 cases of the H1N1 flu virus were reported at
the school in Southeast England, researchers from the U.K.’s
Health Protection Agency said. The school was closed from May 28
to June 7, extending a scheduled break by four days, in response
to the discovery, they said.
Once H1N1 was confirmed, it “became obvious that a
significant outbreak was in progress,” the researchers said in
a study in the journal Eurosurveillance yesterday. Three weeks after the Eton outbreak was announced, HPA
reported an eightfold surge in confirmed cases across the U.K.
Cases nationwide are doubling each week, Health Secretary Andy
Burnham told Parliament on July 2. |
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