H1N1 last summer

I am too, surprised no one discusses this issue with camps. I blogged this during the summer but no one posted anything:

"I know a few people that work for camps in Los Angeles County. Camps in this area have received letters from the LA County Health Dept informing them that anytime they have more than 5 campers with flu like symptoms/fevers that they need to report it to the Health Dept. The Health dept then shut the camp down once the nurse reported that she had several campers/staff with fevers and flu symptoms. They had to send all the campers/staff home. Anyone else dealing with this situation? "

I am at a camp out east. We had several cases but were able to keep it mainly in one age group. When the girls had a fever they went home until fever free for 24 hours then they could return. No camps where I was at were shut down because of flu cases, and believe me there were some camps that had alot of cases. I was at a 8 week camp, so the girls would be home for usually five days and come back to camp. We did a few things that I think really helped us contain it. Luckily we have a big healthcenter so we were able to truely isolate the sick girls. We had all the mattresses in the rooms switched to plastic, so we could wipe them down, we took out the self serve salad bar, and had someone passing out salad and dressing. We had a timeout at each meal, all of the dining hall would stand up and would sit down once they used purrell then once everyone sat down we would eat. We also took temps on the buses as the campers were on their way, we took temps 24hours later, then we would monitor bunks that had a case for the next 48 hours after exposure. I think we had it done and over with until visiting day then we saw more cases. For girls that had a fever we would test them with the rapid influenza a/b test. It was a very busy summer in the healthcenter for sure!! I think that was one reason you didnt see alot of chatter about it on here over the summer, because healthcenters were so much busier!!
Monica, RN