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http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/56382967.html

Ten percent of the students at King Science Center in Omaha were out sick Monday. The Omaha Public School District normally expects four to six percent to be absent on a normal Monday.

"Now how many of those students are actually ill we don't know. They are still tracking to try to communicate with parents to find out the reasons for their absence."

http://journalstar.com/news/local/artic ... 002e0.html

106 out by the END of Monday...
170 out on Tuesday MORNING....

Anyone want to predict tonight/tomorrow's numbers?

I believe the above school is in Nebraska (Lincoln)
http://www.piusx.net/Pages/default.aspx

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Nearly 1 in 5 Pupils at Nebraska High School Is Absent With Flu-Like Symptoms

By the end of the school day on Monday Principal Tom Korta was looking at a list of 106 names – all students who had called in sick.

By Tuesday, the number who were absent or had been sent home had reached 182. That's almost 17 percent of the student body at Pius X, a Catholic high school in Lincoln, Neb.

"We found out that pretty common [symptoms] were fever, sore throat, body aches," Korta said. "That's when we started realizing that something's going on here."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/story?id=8470892

http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/arti ... orytopic=4
H1N1 virus hits hard at Lincoln school
(9/02/2009) By James Wilcox - The H1N1 virus looks to be taking a big hit on a Lincoln High School. More than 200 students are sick. Lincoln Pius said nearly 230 students have either called in sick or gone home sick.

That is nearly 22 percent of the student body.

H1N1 flu had hit one Grand Island elementary school hard, with the new flu strain seemingly circulating in the Grand Island public schools' other 13 grade schools.

Robin Dexter, assistant superintendent for student services, said Jefferson Elementary, which has 325 students, had about 20 percent of its students absent last Friday. But that percentage had already started to subside by this past Monday.

"We had 66 students gone on Friday and 44 students on Monday," said Dexter, who said students were complaining of flu-like symptoms.

Because seasonal flu has not yet hit Central Nebraska, the assumption is that anybody complaining of the flu has the new H1N1 strain.
Dexter said the number of students absent from Jefferson Elementary has continued to improve since Monday. She said other elementary schools have had students out with flu, but the level of absenteeism has not even hit 10 percent.

Likewise, the Grand Island public schools' three middle schools and high school have had students out with flu, but their absentee rates are even lower than what has been reported at the elementary schools.

http://www.theindependent.com/articles/ ... 556007.txt

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