KPLU Local News
(2009-04-27)
ELYRIA, OH
(wosu) -
An Ohio elementary school is closed for the week as health officials work to contain the spread of swine flu, which has sickened a 9-year-old student.State health officials say lab tests confirmed the boy has the same deadly strain that is suspected of killing 103 people in Mexico, the outbreak's epicenter.
The third-grader recently visited several Mexican cities while on vacation with his family. School officials in Elyria closed Ely Elementary School at the urging of city health officials. No additional cases have been identified among students or staff. Parents of students are being advised to monitor their children for fever, cough, body aches and other symptoms.
Twenty cases of swine flu have been confirmed in the U.S.
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