As another school year starts back up, the Department of Health and Environmental Control is cautioning parents to be on the look-out for the H1N1 virus.
“Be on the look-out for the possible signs of influenza, like the fever, the body aches, that type of thing, and if your child has influenza, please, keep him or her home from school. The child needs to stay home until the fever has subsided. No more fever for 24 hours without any kind of medication like aspirin, Tylenol, that type of thing,” says Beasley.
DHEC spokesman Jim Beasley says since the initial outbreak in April of the H1N1 virus, formerly known as swine flu, DHEC has been working with the state Department of Education and the regional offices have been working with local superintendents. Here’s why: “Just to determine whether or not there are any special procedures we need to be aware of in regard to potential of school closing. Now, we intend to use school closings as very, very cautiously, and probably very rarely as well. Latest guidance from the CDC and HHS indicate that school closure is not really the first step that we need to look at,” says Beasley. [Read more...]
