Fifteen Duke Football Players Get H1N1 Virus Symptoms

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Duke trying to keep infected isolated

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<!-- end mod-article-title --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->More than 15 Duke football players have been diagnosed with swine flu symptoms, and some of them have already returned to practice, ESPN.com learned Thursday.
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The players have been staying at the Durham Hilton during summer camp, which has given the Duke medical staff an off-campus location to treat the illness. It appears to be working its way through the team just like any cold or flu, but the staff is trying to keep the players with symptoms isolated.
Duke sports information director Art Chase issued the following statement:
"Like many other schools and summer camps, Duke has had students diagnosed with influenza that is presumed to be H1N1. The cases involving our football program have been very mild, with illness typically lasting two or three days. We are following CDC guidelines to keep individuals out of general circulation for 24 hours after their fever subsides, so many of the individuals who were ill are already back at practice. The student-athletes received immediate treatment from our medical staff, and returned to practice only after being cleared by Duke physicians."
Duke resumes practice Friday morning at 8:30 ET. Names were unavailable because of health information privacy laws, Chase said.

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Re: Fifteen Duke Football Players Get H1N1 Virus Symptoms

Potential flu cases disrupt football at Elon, Duke

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August 14, 2009 1:29 PM

By Bob Sutton / Times-News

<!-- Video goes here -->Flu-like symptoms have struck the Elon University football team and a dozen players have been confined to their rooms, university spokesman Dan Anderson said Friday.
?As of today, we have 12 football players who have shown signs of influenza-like illnesses,? Anderson said, stopping short of saying these are cases of the H1N1 virus or more commonly referred to as swine flu.
Anderson said two players have tested positive for flu.
Duke has had more than two dozen football players hit by the flu, coach David Cutcliffe said Friday.
At Elon, university health officials are monitoring the 12 affected players, Anderson said. They?ll be sequestered from the rest of the campus community until 48 hours after their fevers subside, Anderson said.
?The treatment for that virus isn?t unlike any other virus,? Anderson said, pointing out that hospitalization hasn?t been required for any of the players.
As of about noon Friday, Anderson said there hadn?t been any new confirmed cases of flu-like symptoms in the previous 24 hours at Elon.
Team football spokesman Chris Rash referred questions on the topic to Anderson, who said he?s unaware of any cases involving other sports teams reporting to campus for preseason practices.
Up to 30 Duke players have been affected by flu, though not all at the same time, team spokesman Art Chase said Friday. Cutcliffe said initial cases of the illness came as early as Aug. 5 when players reported for camp.
?The sickness is usually three days, a couple of them a little worse,? Cutcliffe said. ?We?re not out of the woods. ?. But one thing I want to say is that there was a never a complaint or a panic.?
Duke players have been quarantined when they?ve been ill, Cutcliffe said.
Elon and Duke teams have continued on their preseason practice schedules.
?If they?re out here, they?re healthy,? Cutcliffe said, though noting that Saturday?s scrimmage might have a reduction in plays because some players who have returned are in a recovery mode.
Cutcliffe said this is worst than when food poisoning goes through a team.
?I?ve never seen anything like this,? he said, then trying to put a light spin on a serious topic. ?I?ve seen a disease of not wanting to practice before and I have a medicine for that.?
Anderson said the Elon team is going through a pre-practice protocol in hopes of preventing any ill players from participating.
Anderson said the university is sending out notices to parents of the entire student body about procedures in dealing with illness during the upcoming fall semester. Classes begin Sept. 1.

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