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Source: http://www.independentmail.com/news/2012/dec/05/flu-hits-hard-in-some-upstate-schools/
Flu hits hard in some Upstate schools
By Jennifer Crossley Howard
Posted December 5, 2012 at 8:40 p.m.
PENDLETON — Pendleton Elementary School Principal Adam Dymond jokes that he has isolated himself in his office to escape the influenza that has swamped his school.
"It's been awful," he said Wednesday morning. "Last time I checked we had 58 kids out today, and I've seen a handful go down to the nurse's office."
As soon as he got off the phone, he learned that three more children had been sent home.
They joined seven teachers and almost all children enrolled in the school's Head Start program. On Tuesday, the school counted 79 flu-related absences, about 18 percent of students...
Flu hits hard in some Upstate schools
By Jennifer Crossley Howard
Posted December 5, 2012 at 8:40 p.m.
PENDLETON — Pendleton Elementary School Principal Adam Dymond jokes that he has isolated himself in his office to escape the influenza that has swamped his school.
"It's been awful," he said Wednesday morning. "Last time I checked we had 58 kids out today, and I've seen a handful go down to the nurse's office."
As soon as he got off the phone, he learned that three more children had been sent home.
They joined seven teachers and almost all children enrolled in the school's Head Start program. On Tuesday, the school counted 79 flu-related absences, about 18 percent of students...