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Mom: Student Gets Swine Flu At Camp

By Ryan Korsgard

POSTED: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
UPDATED: 8:49 am CDT June 24, 2009

A 12-year-old girl had to leave camp for a while after she got swine flu, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.

"Got a call Wednesday from the director who said that she had tested positive for the flu. Come get her," mother Maxine Goodman said.

Goodman and her family picked up their seventh grader, Rachel Goodman, at the three-and-a-half-week summer camp in Wimberly, Texas.

Goodman said her daughter tested positive for swine flu.

"She was very lethargic," Goodman said." She had fever for two days. She was lethargic -- really lethargic. Did nothing for a couple of days and she was fine."

The story has been repeated again and again at summer camps across the country, including a camp near Waco. The camp director e-mailed parents saying that five campers tested positive for H1N1. The camp contacted health officials and followed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation.  It gave the campers Tamiflu, with their parents' permission.

The camp near Wimberly did the same for Goodman's daughter.

"Even if it's tested as not swine flu, but your kid has a fever, and is coughing, don't send them to camp," Goodman said. "Don't send them to a party where they're going to be with a zillion other kids. Don't send them to school. I know this is hard, but this is really a great illustration of the domino effect when you send one sick kid and it ends up being 40 campers which is what happened here."

Rachel returned to camp after she got better.

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