Flu Cancels School Districts Throughout Missouri

[Missouriwatcher]

According to NBCActionNews.com, Raytown School District (~9,000 students and ~1,000 teachers) will be closed on Monday due to the flu. They had numerous absents on Friday, which prompted the closing. Raytown, MO is a suburb of Kansas City, MO.
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/education/flu-cancels-all-raytown-schools-monday
http://www.raytownschools.org/ABOUT/Pages/default.aspx

 

[Missouriwatcher]

Re: Flu Cancels Two School Districts and One School Throughout Missouri

Re: Flu Cancels Two School Districts and One School Throughout Missouri

According to KOMU.com, St. Andrews School in Tipton, MO shut down Friday due to flu. (Enrollment of 120 students) Tipton, Mo is located in the middle of MO.
http://www.komu.com/news/influenza-outbreak-causes-tipton-school-to-close/

According to kplr11.com, school was canceled on Friday for Phelps County R-III School District, in Edgar Springs, due to the flu. (Enrollment of 200 students) Phelps County is located in south-central MO.
http://www.kplr11.com/news/kplr-flu-closes-phelps-county-school-022612,0,5225828.story

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: Flu Cancels Two School Districts and One School Throughout Missouri

Re: Flu Cancels Two School Districts and One School Throughout Missouri

Raytown School District Takes a Sick Day

6:09 pm, January 30, 2012, by John Pepitone

RAYTOWN, Mo. ? About 9,000 students in the Raytown School District were off from school on Monday. The district canceled classes to prevent illnesses from spreading in its schools.

Raytown penalizes students who miss more than four days of school a year by reducing their grades. As a result, a mom who talked to FOX 4 says kids who go to school when they?re sick spread illness to others. She also blames a new attendance policy for the rash of sickness affecting students and staff.

Workers in the Raytown School District sanitized and disinfected lockers, door handles and all other areas of the buildings and buses where kids could pickup germs. They?re taking extra precautions because a third of the students and nearly half of the staff at Little Blue Elementary School were out sick on Friday.

?It?s flu like symptoms,? said superintendent Travis Hux. ?It?s stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, those sorts of things. According to the Jackson County Health Department that?s a common illness this type of year.?

More...
http://fox4kc.com/2012/01/30/raytown-school-district-takes-a-sick-day/

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: Flu Cancels Two School Districts and One School Throughout Missouri

Re: Flu Cancels Two School Districts and One School Throughout Missouri

Another Mid-Missouri school is canceling classes because too many children and teachers are sick.

St. Stanislaus Catholic School just south of Jefferson City in Wardsville will close Tuesday to disinfect surfaces.

Around 20 percent of the students are out, plus 30 percent of the staff. Principal Nancy Heberlie said it was hard to even find substitutes.

"Even when I was calling for subs, they were either sick or had sick children."

Heberlie says school officials have confirmation of influenza viruses A and B, as well as strep throat and a "variety of other illnesses."...

Author: ABC 17 News Staff
Jan 30, 2012 12:57 PM

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http://abc17news.com/news.php?id=5078

 

[Missouriwatcher]

Re: Flu Cancels School Districts Throughout Missouri

Baseline ILI for MO is 1.98%.
Since the beginning of the flu season, Callaway and Cole counties have been reporting above baseline ILI. Beginning week 46, additional counties of Iron, Putnam and Saline were reporting above baseline ILI. Beginning week 50, Jackson county joined the list of above baseline ILI (MO was listing NO ACTIVITY through week 51) Putnam county dropped lower, and has remained lower, since week 48. All of the other counties have continued above baseline ILI.

Week 4: ILI 2.78% (higher for Callaway, Cole, Jackson, Putnam, Saline counties; Iron county did not report)
http://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/influenza/reports.php#1112

Callaway, Cole and Saline counties are located near the middle of the state.
Putnam county is center on the Iowa border.
Iron county is near the boot-heal.
Jackson county contains Kansas City on the Kansas state line.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...u0nT8XALoP02QXJ2MTdAg&ved=0CDUQ9QEwAg&dur=506

The above schools and school districts are located in these counties.