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Kitimat - only highschool closed with 40% absentee rate

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/29/bc-flu-kitimat-high-school.html

Swine flu closes B.C. high school
Last Updated: Thursday, October 29, 2009 | 11:15 PM PT
CBC News

The only high school in Kitimat, B.C., will be closed for at least one week because of concerns about the swine flu.

About 40 per cent of the 600 students at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School have been home sick with flu-like symptoms, according to Barry Pankhurst, superintendent of schools in the Kitimat area.


"Our doctors and the health authority up here are treating this as suspected [H1N1] sickness ? so it was decided today that we would close Mount Elizabeth until next Wednesday," Pankhurst told CBC News Thursday night.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has said the province is well into a second wave of the swine flu pandemic. Twelve people have died from the illness in B.C., and nearly 200 have been sufferers have been hospitalized.

The youngest person to die from swine flu in the province is believed to have been a 26-year-old woman.

Kitimat is about 630 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.
 
Re: Kitimat - only highschool closed with 40% absentee rate

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"The only high school in Kitimat, B.C., will be closed for at least one weekconcerns about the swine flu.
 because of ...
About 40 per cent of the 600 students at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School have been home sick with flu-like symptoms"

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This seems to be a worldwide many areas used wrong policy at work: close the school because there were so much of students ill that it became pointless continue with edu lessions which must than be further anyway repeated because of the mass numbers miss it.

All the above, instead of closing schools/../ when it became clear that there are only several students with flu (early begining), so that could spare the others to be contaminated, and througly infected in the close proximity classroom breathing, droplets splashings, surface contacts, restrooms dangers, and breakfast feedings.

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40% illnessed necessary to close ...

for such kind of late advises, whoa! :flask:
 
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