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Jun 15, 2009 6:22 pm US/Eastern
Quarantine Ends For Nine S. Fla. Students In China
The Students Had Traveled To China For A Study Program
(CBS4)
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The teens took pictures with their I-phones showing Chinese health authorities in creepy-looking suits doing mandatory health checks twice a day.
CBS4 News
A group of nine South Florida high school students and a teacher were released on Monday after a nearly weeklong quarantine in China.
Chinese officials had feared the students and their teacher might have contracted the H1N1 virus after they sat near someone with a high fever on the airplane.
All were kept in a Beijing hotel and a student told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that they were looking forward to their release.
''Everyone is making the best of the situation, and we have all grown to be really good friends,'' Micayla Moffat, of Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, wrote in an e-mail.
Chinese authorities have told the group that they would be released at 11:30 a.m., Moffat said.
The newspaper reports that the students have been in a non-air conditioned hotel to prevent germs from circulating.
A student at College Academy at Broward College said they have been making the best of the situation.
''It's really not bad at all. Parents make it seem like it's horrible,'' Darien Morrison wrote to the Sentinel. He added that students have been eating pizza and have access to DVDs, and the Internet. They also have large water guns to play with, he added.
The mother of three teens also told the newspaper that her daughter and two sons have been exposed to some cultural activities such as attending a kung fu class and a cooking class.
The three students are Elizabeth Doane, 18, and her brothers, Bryan, 15, and Randell, 13, all of North Palm Beach.
''We wanted them to get a cultural immersion and, boy, I guess you've got to be careful what you ask for,'' Rebecca Doane said.
But once they're released they will be able to resume their travel program. Some students plan to wait to return to the United States until June 27. But others may opt to return earlier.
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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