{"id":13668,"date":"2009-10-08T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:12:01","slug":"h1n1-confirmed-in-six-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/08\/h1n1-confirmed-in-six-students\/","title":{"rendered":"H1N1 confirmed in six students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To<\/strong>: The Bates Community<br \/>\n<strong>From<\/strong>: Christy Tisdale, director of health services, and Tedd Goundie, dean of students<br \/>\n<strong>Date<\/strong>: Oct. 8, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Dear Members of the Bates Community,<\/p>\n<p>Today, Oct. 8, we received our first confirmed positive results from  student cultures tested for H1N1.\u00a0 We have seen a recent wave of  students exhibiting symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI), and today  six cases were confirmed to be H1N1.\u00a0 After three or more confirmed  cases the CDC will no longer test cultures, so going forward any student  exhibiting ILI will be presumed to have H1N1.<\/p>\n<p>For the entire semester, we have seen 21 students who meet the medical  criteria for ILI.\u00a0 Currently two students are isolated in College-owned  housing, nine students are recovering at home, and the rest are fully  recovered and back in classes.\u00a0 There have been no complications and all  students have recovered within three to six days.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue for the time being to follow our protocol of sending  home students with ILI who live within reasonable driving distance, and  isolating students who live far away in our designated isolation  spaces.\u00a0 However, we anticipate that very soon we will reach capacity in  our isolation spaces, and that we will then move to having these  students self-isolate in their residence hall rooms as outlined in our  last message to the community dated Sept. 24, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>We urge everyone to continue to practice sound hygiene habits to slow  the spread of the virus.\u00a0 We will continue to update the community as  warranted, and will alert everyone when vaccines become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three or more confirmed cases the CDC will no longer test cultures, so going forward any student exhibiting ILI will be presumed to have H1N1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11012,11009],"tags":[256,161,4330,11074],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-h1n1-health","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-ili","tag-residential-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62450,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/62450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}