A H1N1 flu outbreak has lead to the closure of a university town in Langfang, a city in China’s Hebei Province. Students now carry thermometers with them as they walk
There were over 300 suspected H1N1 cases on the campus of the People's Armed Police Force Academy, according to an instructor there who spoke to The Epoch Times under condition of anonymity.
The instructor said those infected were all transferred to Beijing for treatment, and a series of preventative measures taken on campus.
“They have found two more H1N1 cases in the cafeteria, so [the cafeteria] was closed... School authorities have disinfected and cleaned the campus. Every student carries a thermometer with them,” the instructor said.
Although death rates are low among the infected, the instructor said that in the future victims might suffer complications, such as partial paralysis or damage to the neurological, respiratory, or circulatory systems.
One clerk who works in Langfang told The Epoch Times that there are 14 universities with about 40,000 to 50,000 students in the university town, and over 10,000 people have been quarantined since last Wednesday.
The Public Security Bureau was issuing passes in and out of town.
The library had been closed since the outbreak, according to someone who works there contacted by telephone.
Rumors circulated on the internet that authorities in Xiong County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, had issued an order to towns and villages in the area to not report any fever cases, to not confirm any H1N1 cases, and to treat H1N1 flu like the regular flu. The Epoch Times was unable to verify these claims.
The state’s Xinhua News Agency recently reported a new confirmed H1N1 flu case in the Hebei Technical College of Petroleum Profession and those who were infected with H1N1 in Langfang City had all been hospitalized for quarantine and medical treatments.
Xinhua News Agency also reported on Sept. 12 that the Hebei Province Education Department had ordered schools in the province to report any H1N1 cases to their local Education Bureaus, which will then report to the Provincial Education Department.
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