Swine Flu has struck ISCM duh duh duhhhhhhh

Sooooooo I never really took this whole swine flu thing seriously because I'm very much the person who isn't scared of getting sick and who thinks that if it's far away then it won't affect me. Well ISCM brings in campers from all over Europe, Russia, Australia, the Middle East and the Americas and despite my own ignorance it was only a matter of time before I came into contact with this epidemic just out of sheer karma. Camp has been taking major precautions and doing what they could to avoid this but third session hit and all of a sudden the epidemic came on full force. We have many campers in our infirmary and staying in various places away from the rest of campers to make sure that their syptoms don't affect everyone else but every day there are new cases and were loses people fast. There are at least 10 with the symptoms...all senior campers at first but now today a junior camper is thought to have the same flu symptoms. We've had to inform parents of what's happening so when I say we're losing people, I mean it. Many campers from all sections have had to leave within the past few days and I'm sure it will continue as parents start to freak out. It's very unfortuante because many of these campers were having a great time at camp and we're only finishing the first week...we think that by the end of this week we will have about half the camp still around and half will be gone. The staff are all healthy which is amazing but we're slowly losing kids and therefore jobs, soon the directors will be paying us to hang by the pool. Some groups have already started to mesh together because some counsellors have been left with 3 or 4 campers compared to 8. We're really hoping that it doesn't go much further then this but it's really hard to say when there's no total prevention from it so we just have to wait and see what happens. I have been sick for the past few days but I think its just exhaustion with the end of the session and my time at ISCM coming up and although I'm never sick and don't worry about it, I do find myself checking my temperature just to be sure. Send healthy vibes over this way because we need them!!!!!
I'll keep everyone updated on the latest as it happens...just like 680 News!!!!
Until then,
jane xox