THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009
NEWS
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Monday night music
Rvan McGeeney/KANSAN
Robbie Levin and Erica Brandt, both of Lawrence, entertain a small crowd outside the Free State Brewing Company in downtown Lawrence Monday night. Levin and Brandt, both occasional buskers, said they had never met each other before they began playing for the crowd.
CRIME Charges filed in migrant smuggling accident
MIAMI — A second person faces charges in the case of a migrant smuggling boat that capsize May 13 off South Florida's coast, killing nine people.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court charges Jean Nelson with alien smuggling resulting in a death, which carries a potential death sentence.
Authorities say Nelson was identified by one of the 16 rescued migrants and by the other man charged in the case, 33-year-old Jimmy Metellus. Nelson's lawyer didn't immediately respond Tuesday to an e-mail seeking comment.
The boat capsized about 16 miles off the Palm Beach coast.
CELEBRITY Mike Tyson weds after personal tragedy
LAS VEGAS — Mike Tyson has married for a third time, two weeks after his 4-year-old daughter died in a tragic accident.
County marriage records in Las Vegas show the 42-year-old Tyson and 32-year-old Lakiha Spicer got a marriage license about 30 minutes before their ceremony. She is not the mother of Exodus Tyson, who died.
The girl suffocated after she either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill's console at the Phoenix home where she lived with her mother and brother.
CRIME
Suspicious circumstances surround Missouri deaths
Associated Press
COLE CAMP, Mo. — Police found three bodies in a Missouri home and said the circumstances surrounding the deaths are "suspicious."
Sgt. Scott Meyer of the Missouri Highway Patrol said police found the bodies in the Cole Camp home Tuesday after receiving a call from someone concerned over its occupants.
Associated Press
He said investigators hadn't determined how the people died, and the names were not immediately released.
H1N1 hits Douglas County
HEALTH
BY DYLAN SANDS dsands@kansan.com
"We asked him to isolate and stay at home to limit contact with others," Horn said.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department has confirmed two cases of H1N1, commonly known as the swine flu, in Douglas County in the last two weeks.
She added that a case of H1N1 had also been confirmed in Leavenworth County, which includes the cities of Leavenworth and Tonganoxie.
Horn said the patient in the second case showed mild symptoms and had been asked to isolate from others until recovery.
Horn said she did not think the flu should affect students' travel plans for the summer.
"At this point, travel isn't as big a concern as it was early in the outbreak," she said. "The disease is so widespread that changing travel plans to avoid infection is not really a recommendation. It's just not something you can really avoid.
Lisa Horn, spokeswoman for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said the man diagnosed with the first case was in the later stages of the illness and was no longer contagious.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 92 confirmed cases of H1N1 in the state of Kansas. Out of 13,217 cases in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, only 27 have resulted in death.
Patricia Denning, chief of medical services at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said outbreaks in other countries were also of concern at the health center. "They did have a travel ban to and from Mexico in May, but they did lift that. We do watch that because we have a lot of students traveling to study abroad," she said.
Denning also said that while H1N1 has affected people internationally, there was no need to panic because the flu has a low mortality rate.
"All that indicates is how widespread it is, not how virulent," she said.
Both Horn and Denning suggested simple tips for avoiding not only H1N1, but most viruses in general, including:
Thoroughly washing hands daily with soap and water.
"When we say wash your hands, very few wash their hands correctly or well enough. When you're washing your hands, that means lots of soap and water and working between your fingers and say your ABCs."
slowly twice. It's not a dash under the sink and a slap with the soap," Denning said.
Avoid touching the "triangle" of your eyes, nose and mouth.
Harmful bacteria on your hands could be spread to these areas by touching.
Denning said that being aware of one's surroundings and avoiding others who exhibit symptoms of illness was important to staying healthy.
"We can, as caregivers or parents, tell people to do this, and the kind of blow it off. But if we can encourage this policing it can make a difference." Denning said.
Denning said students should be aware of the symptoms of H1N1, which are similar to the symptoms of any flu virus: fever, body ache, sore throat, cough, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
"If people are feeling poorly, we encourage you to take your temperature and if it is high, call a health care provider," Denning said.
She said more thorough testing was needed to confirm whether or not a patient has H1N1. A nasal test must be administered and the results sent to a state facility that tests for H1N1 strains.
— Edited by Zach White
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