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Costa Rican Salud (health) officials are
questioning how four people who came in
contact with the Canti Mundi chorus from
Massachusetts may now have the AH1N1 virus,
or swine flu.
It is still not clear whether some Canta
Mundi chorus members contracted the illness
while there, or if they brought it with
them, because the three people who had a
mild form of H1N1 showed symptoms after
their return to the United States
The Spanish-language daily, La Nacion,
reported Wednesday that four Costa Ricans
have been added to the "probables" of
infected , including the driver and owner of
a tour bus that carried Canta Mundi, and two
family members of a 13-year-old girl who
also came in contact with the group.
Donald Thea, an infectious disease
specialist at Boston University School of
Public Health and father of a Canta Mundi
chorus member, went on the Costa Rica trip
and is waiting for test results on whether
he has the virus.
“I have not been confirmed and I don’t know
if I ever will be,” he said. It was found to
be influenza-positive, but additional H1N1
testing has not been done.”
In Costa Rica those on the "probables" list
are confirmed to be infected by local health
authorities, awaiting final confirmation by
the the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in
Atlanta.
Costa Rica has had eight confirmed cases of
the AH1N1 flu, one of the confirmed dying
last Saturday, the first death recorded in
Costa Rica, after complications with
pneumonia and diabetes.
The other confirmed are of have all
recovered.
Costa Rica's ministra de Salud, Maria Luisa
Avila, asked on Monday that anyone who was
in contract with the chorus should contact
health officials
The chorus travelled the country from April
17 to 28, during Lexington High School’s
spring break. The group traveled to Costa
Rica to give concerts and donate musical
instruments to schools that did not have
any.
Group director Brian O’Connell has said some
members returned home feeling ill. |
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