Flu Outbreak Closes School

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By Matthew Campbell

Story Published: Oct 27, 2009 at 10:55 PM EST

Story Updated: Oct 27, 2009 at 10:55 PM EST

After 141 students called out sick, Meadow Brook School in East Longmeadow closed for the remainder of the week.

School officials have not confirmed that there is any H1N1 circulating, but the symptoms appear to be the same. Many of the Kindergarten to second grade students have severely high fevers of 103 degrees or more.

The students out sick amount to 25% of the school population. Other East Longmeadow schools are seeing high rates of flu-like symptoms, but none have been forced to close. School officials have not ruled out other schools closing, but they have not deemed that necessary at this time.

Local pharmacies have been flooded with calls. Not much, other than the basics, have been offered to concerned parents, but Stop and Shop in East Longmeadow are stocked with the prescription medicine Tamiflu. They do not have H1N1 vaccines.

Thursday, Oct 29 at 6:32 PM Nowordyet wrote ...

Appears to be man made virus, why no investigation? Never hear anything about this at all, just scare everyone into submission...

Wednesday, Oct 28 at 3:46 PM Bob wrote ...

Good to hear that the schools are paying close attion to this sickness.

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