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On May 3, 2009, parent of students attending King Middle School in Berkeley were notified that their school would be closed down due to a swine flu outbreak involving students at the school. Days later, other schools were closed down because of students or staff exhibiting flu-like symptoms; for example, Sunnyside Elementary School and ...
On April 24, 2009, schools (from pre-school to university level) as well as libraries, museums, concerts and any public gathering place, were shut down by the government in Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico to prevent the disease from spreading further; the schools in Mexico City, the State of Mexico, and the state of San Luis ...
Schools closed in many states in response to local flu outbreaks. By April 30, 2009, 300 U.S. schools and school districts had announced closures in response to the outbreak, giving 169,000 students time off. [198] On May 4, 2009, about 533 schools in 24 states in the U.S. were closed, affecting about 330,000 students. [199]
The flu has forced schools to shut down in some states. The Godley Independent School District, a 3,200-student system near Fort Worth, Texas, last week closed for three days after 650 students ...
The 2024-2025 flu shot protects against three strains — H3N2, H1N1 and a flu B strain — but uptake has been very poor this season, Dr. David Warren, chief of the division of infectious disease ...
Additionally, schools have closed due to flu and flu-related absences in Alabama, Indiana and other states. How to prevent and treat flu. It's not too late to get a flu shot, experts say. The CDC ...
St. Francis Preparatory School, a private school in New York, was the center of a large cluster of cases after a spring break trip by several students. It was one of the first US schools to be closed during the early outbreak. [313] Most of the cases in California and Texas were not linked and may have reflected localized outbreaks. [314]
The 2009 swine flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1/swine flu/influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August 2010, was the third recent flu pandemic involving the H1N1 virus (the first being the 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic and the second being the 1977 Russian flu).