- BEIJING (AFP) - 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 have said.
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- The outbreak began on March 26 when 22
students were hospitalized with high fevers, Xinhua news agency said.
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- 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.
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- "There were over 400 students that
became feverish with the flu," a university official who declined
to be named told AFP when contacted by phone.
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- He refused to detail what type of flu
it was or how the outbreak had succeeded in infecting so many students.
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- Local health officials were currently
trying to identify the flu strain, Xinhua said.
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- The temperatures of some of the students
reached 39.6 degrees celsius (103.3 degrees Fahrenheit), it said.
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- 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.
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- Most students were only hospitalized
for about three days and released, the report said, adding that only several
dozen students remained hospitalized as of Sunday.
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