Swine Flu School Closings List?

School closing may be necessary for a few days at the peak of flu season if there aren't enough students and staff members on hand to keep things running normally. School closing is meant to reduce the spread of an infectious disease circulating in the community. Decisions about school closing are made locally by school districts, in consultation with public health departments.
I want to know the list of all the School Closings due to the Swine Flu virus.
The goverment always releases a list in these cases.

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Elbert | 3 comments | 206 views | Category: Diseases & Conditions | Created: 12-09-2009 at 01:29 PM

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Emi

12-09-2009
There is not such a list yet. The number of US school closings due to swine flu has been steadily falling.
The Department of Education reported Monday that no new closings had occurred in the past week.

The goal of school closing is to limit contact between infected and uninfected children. Because they have less natural immunity than adults do, children are more likely to get infected — particularly at school, where germs spread easily. Each child who brings the infection to school transmits it to a few others, who carry it from the classroom to a pool of contacts at home. Ideally, closing school should interrupt flu transmission before the infection makes its way into too many homes.

Since the virus emerged in April, the swine flu has sickened at least 22 million Americans, hospitalized 98,000 and killed at least 4,000, the CDC estimates. While the seasonal flu typically hits the elderly hardest, the H1N1 virus has affected children and young adults much more because most have little or no immunity against it.
 

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Coris

12-09-2009
And health officials said there will almost certainly be a third wave of infections -- the first was this spring, the second is going on now, and no one is certain when the next wave will hit.
 

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Savana

12-09-2009
More vaccine is becoming available for the Swine Flu and, as many of those who fall within high-risk groups have already been vaccinated, the state wants to encourage the general public to seek protection.
 

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