Schools keeping watchful eye on swine flu
By
Ray Gomez
Story Created:
Sep 4, 2009
Story Updated:
Sep 5, 2009
School has been in session for two weeks now and already there are a significant amount of students who have flu-like symptoms.
This has both school districts worried.
Our Noraida Negron has more on how the districts are preparing for the H1N1 virus.
United ISD has already sent almost one hundred students home.
Laredo ISD has excluded more than forty students.
According to both school districts they are making sure these students are at home and not spreading any more germs.
In the meantime UISD is disinfecting classrooms and even the school buses.
LISD met today with different departments.
They have a plan to fight the flu...and it includes an electronic tracking system to make sure who is sick and who's not.
Patricia Keck, Lisd Head Nurse, "It allows a nurse to input a child's info to the system. That immediately alerts me and the health department."
The electronic database actually lets the head nurse get more information about the student's symptoms.
Also they are keeping numbers of which school is more contagious and how many students have flu-like symptoms.
Right now LISD says they are not promoting hand sanitizers for the students because if used incorrectly they can be dangerous.
They are promoting soap and water to wash your hands.
Right now they are preparing for the swine flu vaccine to get here by October.
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Martinez said on Friday, Sep 4 at 7:18 PM
Just remember, people: don't overreact. I realize, as a parent, that we may panic when our children may be at risk, but we must remain calm for our children's sakes. People should not begin crowding the emergency rooms and perhaps delaying treatment for the seriously ill. We all have to use our common sense now more than ever.
28752597Misnomer said on Saturday, Sep 5 at 6:02 PM
Please call it the Mexican flu not the swine flu.The pigs do not need to be insulted like that and it attacked the Mexicans last time.
28783971A Knapp said on Sunday, Sep 6 at 1:51 AM
Misnomer, it may have originated in Mexico, but almost everywhere where pork was eaten it appeared. This is due to not cooking the pigs properly. If you EVER been to mexico, you can see it in the mercados, meat is prepared in the open air, and hung. It's called a "sanitation problem" not an "ethnic" one.
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