SAN DIEGO -- San Diego County officials in charge of Camp Cuyamaca told 10News' Michael Chen more about what happened after students from a local middle school arrived at the camp.

Camp leaders said they took temperatures of all the sixth-grade students from Oak Valley Middle School when they arrived. One student was immediately sent home due to a high fever.

As the week progressed, 21 other students were sent home with flu-like symptoms and temperatures above 100 degrees.

Camp officials said they were following county health guidelines.

"If they're living in dorms, exposed to other children, why didn't you send the other children home?" Chen asked Jim Esterbrooks, a spokesman for the County Office of Education.

Esterbrooks replied, "If a child becomes sick, they don't shut down the school. Children at school are in closer proximity than us. Parents should not have reservations about sending their children to the camp. The best precaution is parents not sending sick children to the camp."

Like schools with infected students, the camp went through a thorough cleaning. Hand sanitizers remain a common sight at the camp.

Two days after the camp, more than 200 new students arrived. Officials said six have been sent home with flu-like symptoms, which they said is below average for a typical week.

It is not yet known if those students contracted swine flu.