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Cases of 'boot camp flu' dropping at Lackland Air Force Base
08:44 AM CST on Monday, December 3, 2007
SAN ANTONIO -- Recruits at Lackland Air Force Base have continued to get sick from a mutated version of a common cold virus known as “boot camp flu” during the past three months.
But the number occurrences has dropped since earlier this year.
Adenoviruses sickened hundreds of recruits at Lackland in the spring and summer with the most serious cases blamed on a new variant called Ad14.
Five airmen ended up in an intensive care unit, and 19-year-old Paige Villers of Norton, Ohio, died from the sickness in early August.
The base said 39 airmen tested positive for adenoviruses in November, all with the Ad14 strain. That was down from 100 positive tests in October, also with the Ad14 strain.
U.S. health officials say the Ad14 form has caused ten deaths in the last 18 months.
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