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Health Department Updates Info on Baseball Players with Swine Flu





The Health Department is revising an announcement made Friday regarding the health of a group of little league baseball players from the Virgin Islands and the H1N1 virus.

Although it was earlier reported that five players of the team that traveled to Curacao last week had tested positive for the virus, on Monday Health officials announced that it was actually one coach and four players.

The members were scheduled to return either Monday or Tuesday because of flight delays.

They have finished a five-day course of Tamiflu. Officials say they are no longer contagious and no longer exhibit symptoms of the potentially deadly flu.

Due to privacy laws, the players’ identities have not been released.

Epidemiologist Eugene Tull said that with the spread of the disease worldwide, it is difficult to pinpoint the source of the team’s illness. He said that it is not immediately known whether the members who tested positive left the territories with H1N1 or got it while in Curacao.

The team left on July 16 and fell ill Thursday.

Once the team returns, the Health Department will continue to monitor those who traveled, as well as those who were sick.

As of Friday, there were 51 cases of confirmed swine flu in the territory. There were 20 on St. Croix, 30 on St. Thomas and one on St. John.

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