WILMINGTON — There were 11 people sick with flu-like illness who have an association of visiting the hog barn last week at the Clinton County Fair, the county health commissioner said Wednesday morning.

Swine flu in the hog barn was confirmed among several hogs, leading the barn to become off-limits the last couple days of the annual agricultural fair.

Of the 11 people with flu-like symptoms, three have been lab-confirmed as the H3N2 flu virus, stated Clinton County Health Commissioner Pamela Walker Bauer.

“However, we do not yet know if these three lab-confirmed cases are a match to the H3N2 swine virus found in the hogs,” Walker Bauer reported.

The health commissioner pledged Wednesday to keep the News Journal posted on swine flu as she finds out more about the possible human cases.

Last Thursday, State of Ohio officials shut down the hog barn after swine flu was detected. Following that, only the exhibitors and a limited number of others were allowed to see the remainder of the Junior Fair Market Swine Show.

Reach Gary Huffenberger at 937-556-5768.

There was a brush left on a bench outside the hog barn on Thursday, July 13 following an announcement that swine flu was confirmed in a pig inside the barn on the Clinton County Fairgrounds.

http://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2017/07/web1_bench_brush_p_f-1.jpgThere was a brush left on a bench outside the hog barn on Thursday, July 13 following an announcement that swine flu was confirmed in a pig inside the barn on the Clinton County Fairgrounds. News Journal file photo