The Flu
Date : Feb 17
When : February 18, 2020
Time : All Day
The Flu: (Influenza)
The flu bug has hit the Glidden-Ralston School.
The symptoms include fever, cough, body aches, sore throat, chills, headache and tiredness. Also may have diarrhea and vomiting.
The CDC(Centers of Disease Control) recommends to keep your child home from school for at least 24 hours after their fever is gone. The fever should be gone without the use of fever-reducing medication.
The number one way to prevent the spread of illness is to wash your hands!!
Influenza (also known as flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat and lungs. Flu is different from a cold, and usually comes on suddenly. Each year flu viruses cause millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospital stays and thousands or tens of thousands of deaths in the United States.
Flu can be very dangerous for children. CDC estimates that between 6,000 and 26,000 children younger than 5 years have been hospitalized each year in the United States because of influenza. The flu vaccine is safe and helps protect children from flu.
