200 Students Sick with Flu at Neillsville School District
"The Neillsville Superintendent John Gaier tells WEAU-TV, cleaning crews working a late shift at district school “doing a lot of sterilizing” after more than 200 students were absent or sent home due to the flu.
A message on the district's website from the school nurse reads:
The district has been seeing rapidly increasing numbers of students ill with the respiratory flu or stomach flu as of today. Symptoms of the respiratory flu are headache, sore throat with or without fever. Students should stay home until they are free of vomiting, fever, or diarrhea for a full 24 hours without the aid of fever reducing medication such as Tylenol, Advil, or ibuprofen.
...There are 1,000 students in the Neillsville School District."
"The Neillsville Superintendent John Gaier tells WEAU-TV, cleaning crews working a late shift at district school “doing a lot of sterilizing” after more than 200 students were absent or sent home due to the flu.
A message on the district's website from the school nurse reads:
The district has been seeing rapidly increasing numbers of students ill with the respiratory flu or stomach flu as of today. Symptoms of the respiratory flu are headache, sore throat with or without fever. Students should stay home until they are free of vomiting, fever, or diarrhea for a full 24 hours without the aid of fever reducing medication such as Tylenol, Advil, or ibuprofen.
...There are 1,000 students in the Neillsville School District."