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New swine flu hits 66 Ohio cases
People contracting disease while visit animal exhibits at county fairs.
by WKSU's STATEHOUSE CORRESPONDENT BILL COHEN


Reporter
Bill Cohen
 

It used to be called “swine flu.” But now there are so many different varieties of it, scientists have given one of them the technical name, H3N2V, and the number of human cases is increasing in Ohio and across the country. Ohio now has 66 confirmed human cases, spread out over 17 counties.
Tessie Pollock of the Ohio Department of Health notes that’s a big jump from last year.

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“Ohio didn’t have any confirmed cases of H3N2V in humans last year,” Pollock says. “CDC reports that there only 12 human cases nationally between August and December of 2011. This year we are looking at more than 150 cases so far in 2012.”

So far, only five  out of the 66 Ohioans who’ve gotten this strain of swine flu have had to be hospitalized….and all of them have been treated and released. It appears that many of them got the illness by coming into contact with pigs at county fairs. Health officials advise people who visit animal exhibits to wash their hands afterwards….and not to bring food or drinks into the areas where animals are displayed.

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