{"id":13686,"date":"2019-11-03T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=13686"},"modified":"2019-11-03T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T19:19:09","slug":"outbreak-of-flu-in-3-shss-under-control-ghana-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/11\/03\/outbreak-of-flu-in-3-shss-under-control-ghana-health-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of Flu in 3 SHSs under control \u2013 Ghana Health Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unusual outbreak that affected three senior high schools in the Lower Manya-Krobo District of the Eastern Region, has\u00a0been brought\u00a0under control,\u00a0according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).<\/p>\n

The secondary schools affected were Akuse Methodist Senior High School, Krobo Girls Senior High\u00a0School and the Legacy Girls Senior School.<\/p>\n

Student activities have now returned to normalcy, a GHS statement indicated Sunday.<\/p>\n

The outbreak occurred on October 31, 2019.<\/p>\n

Health experts from the national and regional departments of the GHS were dispatched to support the affected schools to assess the situation and to collaborate with school authorities to bring the health crisis under control.<\/p>\n

Flu samples were taken from affected students for laboratory testing confirmed\u00a0the seasonal flu Type-A H3N2.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, affected students are responding well to treatment.<\/p>\n

The GHS encourages parents not to panic\u00a0but rather advise their wards to cooperate with the health and school authorities, practice and enhance personal hygiene and cough etiquette.<\/p>\n

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An unusual outbreak that affected three senior high schools in the Lower Manya-Krobo District of the Eastern Region, has\u00a0been brought\u00a0under control,\u00a0according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The secondary schools affected were Akuse Methodist Senior High School, Krobo Girls Senior High\u00a0School and the Legacy Girls Senior School. Student activities have now returned to normalcy, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,43,1],"tags":[3808,8440,2715,8220,192,3810,12634,12900,7654,3809,3811,9457,6736,8810,6059,6047,8206],"class_list":["post-13686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-fitness","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akuse-methodist-senior-high-school","tag-crisis","tag-eastern-region","tag-flu","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-health-service-ghs","tag-health","tag-hygiene","tag-krobo","tag-krobo-girls-senior-high-school-and-the-legacy-girls-senior-school","tag-lower-manya-krobo-district-of-the-eastern-region","tag-outbreak","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-student","tag-students","tag-treatment"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}