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C) H1N1 is rapidly spreading in schools. The articles I have pasted below are only the tip of the
iceberg -- this is across the country at this point.

Lowell had 123 students call in sick Monday and sent another 71 home with fevers and other flu-
like symptoms, the representative said

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105174
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/05/18/daily24.html

The Dana Hall School in Wellesley has been shuttered for the next week after nearly 100 students
and staff called in sick with fevers, sore throats, and other flu-like systems.

A spokeswoman for Dana Hall School in Wellesley said Tuesday there is no indication that swine
flu is what prompted 90 students and eight faculty and staff members to call in sick on Monday,
but the move was made after consulting with state and local public health officials.

A spokeswoman for the state Public Health Department says there are no confirmed swine flu
cases at the school and no one associated with the school is being tested for the disease.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=235635#post235635
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/wellesley/2009/05/flu_closes_dana_hall_school_in.html
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_05_19_Wellesley_school_closes_after_ra
sh_of_illnesses/srvc=home&position=recent
D) There has been a death from a possible lethal coinfection, a dangerous event suggesting worse
is to come -- see the case of the death from pneumonia of an oil platform worker who tested
positive for multiple strains of the flu.

Possible Swine Flu Death in Little Rock

Reported by: KARK 4 News

Monday, May 18, 2009

The death of a 28-year-old man in a Little Rock hospital over the weekend could be linked to the
H1N1 virus better known as Swine Flu.

That's according to Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper , who tells KARK 4 that the man's
autopsy revealed he had suffered from more than one strain of flu. Camper calls that "somewhat
unusual."

Camper says the man was an offshore oil worker who had been in the hospital with flu-like
symptoms, and had reportedly been ill for weeks.

http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/news/?cid=222431

E) Data has become available from case studies in California , from H1N1 hospitalizations.

15/25 patients have lung infiltrates, almost half have vomiting... this is somewhat disturbing.

The best predictive symptoms based on this data are:

1) Fever (97%)
2) Cough (77%)