Longhorn Aquatics Long Course Kick Off was scheduled for May 1 - 3, 2009
this email just arrived:
Long Course Kick Off Cancelled
Importance: High
Dear TXLA Swimmers and Parents,
The Long Course Kick Off meet, scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled due to the increasing incidence of the N1H1 Virus and its apparently elevated prevalence, especially in the San Antonio area where many of our swimmers are coming from. We are working on rescheduling sometime in June. We will let you know as plans firm up.
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USMS SCY Nats is coming up here's the comment from
From Dowain Wright, Meet Director and physician. :
At this time, there is no indication that the USMS National Short Course Championships will be adversely affected by the Swine Flu outbreak. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and keep everyone informed. It appears that all transmission of the virus in the US is the result of close and prolonged contact with an infected individual. Community wide spread by casual contact has not occurred. However, we request that any swimmer having a upper respiratory illness stay at home.
Sincerely,
Dowain Wright, MD, PhD
Meet Director, UMSM SC Nationals
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a friend of mine asked
If Dowain is up to date on California's Governator's proclamations?
At some point soon USMS Nationals Officials & USMS need to make an official call.
What should they do?
Are folks over reacting?
Parents
Former Member
If I am remembering correctly the 1918 pandemic was just the beginning. The flu that occurred during that year was mild, just as this one appears to be. But, during it the time it spread it mutated and produced the deadly strain with most of its victums dying in 1919... maybe I have the two years wrong... it began in 1917 and the deadly strain appeared in 1918. The point is, it was mild to begin with and mutated to become deadly.
That is what the hoopla is about. If we can some how limit the spread at this point in time we might be able to prevent it from mutating into a deadly strain.
Lainey
If I am remembering correctly the 1918 pandemic was just the beginning. The flu that occurred during that year was mild, just as this one appears to be. But, during it the time it spread it mutated and produced the deadly strain with most of its victums dying in 1919... maybe I have the two years wrong... it began in 1917 and the deadly strain appeared in 1918. The point is, it was mild to begin with and mutated to become deadly.
That is what the hoopla is about. If we can some how limit the spread at this point in time we might be able to prevent it from mutating into a deadly strain.
Lainey
