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The worry over swine flu eased at a junior high school campus in Davis on Sunday, but it worsened in the state prison system where visitations were suspended until further notice.
The Davis Joint Unified School District, which had announced Friday it intended to shut down Holmes Junior High School for at least a week based on advice from state health officials, got the all-clear signal Sunday when a student's probable case of swine flu turned out to be another form of influenza.
On Sunday, the Davis Parent-Teacher Association quickly circulated a message from James Hammond, district superintendent, advising that Dr. Joseph Iser, Yolo County health officer, had given a thumbs-up to resumption of activities at Holmes as early as Monday morning.
"This good news means that our students may resume their academics, and the many activities planned for Holmes Junior High and for Holmes students in districtwide activities can be held as planned," Hammond said in his message.
The development left the volume of confirmed swine flu cases in Yolo County at zero. But not for long, Iser theorized.
"I am surprised that we haven't had more by this time," Iser said.
At the Officer of the Receiver for California Prison Health Care Services, spokesman Luis Patino said Sunday that an inmate in Centinela State Prison in Imperial County was diagnosed as probable for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.
"The inmate and his cellmate have been isolated, Patino said. "They remain at the prison."
George Kostyrko, spokesman for the state Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, said visitations at the state's 33 adult prisons, 6 youth facilities - including two in Stockton - and a small number of community-based facilities would be suspended until further notice.
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The Davis Joint Unified School District, which had announced Friday it intended to shut down Holmes Junior High School for at least a week based on advice from state health officials, got the all-clear signal Sunday when a student's probable case of swine flu turned out to be another form of influenza.
On Sunday, the Davis Parent-Teacher Association quickly circulated a message from James Hammond, district superintendent, advising that Dr. Joseph Iser, Yolo County health officer, had given a thumbs-up to resumption of activities at Holmes as early as Monday morning.
"This good news means that our students may resume their academics, and the many activities planned for Holmes Junior High and for Holmes students in districtwide activities can be held as planned," Hammond said in his message.
The development left the volume of confirmed swine flu cases in Yolo County at zero. But not for long, Iser theorized.
"I am surprised that we haven't had more by this time," Iser said.
At the Officer of the Receiver for California Prison Health Care Services, spokesman Luis Patino said Sunday that an inmate in Centinela State Prison in Imperial County was diagnosed as probable for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.
"The inmate and his cellmate have been isolated, Patino said. "They remain at the prison."
George Kostyrko, spokesman for the state Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, said visitations at the state's 33 adult prisons, 6 youth facilities - including two in Stockton - and a small number of community-based facilities would be suspended until further notice.
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