Seven Dunwoody Scouts test positive for swine flu

Seven Dunwoody Boy Scouts have tested positive for swine flu, their troop leader said.

Another seven scouts in the same troop showed symptons of the H1N1 virus, assistant scout leader Ed Cerbone said.

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The Boy Scouts who tested positive for swine flu are with Troop 434 from All Saints Catholic Church.

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All of the scouts are expected to recover, he said.

“We haven’t seen where anybody got worse or headed to the hospital,” Cerbone said Sunday.

Of the 14 sick boys, about a third were showing signs of recovery Sunday night, including increased appetites and movement.

“The rest are still working their way through it,” Cerbone said. “It looks like we are working our way through the woods.”

The boys, of Troop 434 from All Saints Catholic Church, got sick after a week at Camp Daniel Boone in North Carolina, Cerbone said.

They were among about 700 campers who arrived June 7 at the camp, which is located in the mountains southwest of Asheville. They were planning to spend a week at the camp.

*”We’ve scrubbed everything down where campers stay and all the program areas,” camp director Dan Rogers told the Asheville Citizen-Times. “We’ve done everything we could do. We’ve contacted all the incoming troops to check their campers to make they’re healthy. We’re going to check them when they arrive as we always do. We’ve should have a good week.”

The Haywood County Health Department decided not to close the camp after 30 campers and six staff members fell ill last week with symptoms of the virus and laboratory tests confirmed at least three cases of the H1N1 virus, the Citizen-Times said.

“With our top priority being health and safety, and working with the Haywood County Health Department, we feel like we can continue to operate the camp as long as we follow the procedures outlined for us by the Health Department,” Connie Bowes, executive director of the Daniel Boone Council, told the newspaper.

Staff Reporter Alexis Stevens contributed to this report.