Via CBCnews.ca: Swine flu closes B.C. high school. Excerpt:
The only high school in Kitimat, B.C., will be closed for at least one week because of concerns about the swine flu.
About 40 per cent of the 600 students at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School have been home sick with flu-like symptoms, according to Barry Pankhurst, superintendent of schools in the Kitimat area.
"Our doctors and the health authority up here are treating this as suspected [H1N1] sickness … so it was decided today that we would close Mount Elizabeth until next Wednesday," Pankhurst told CBC News Thursday night.
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has said the province is well into a second wave of the swine flu pandemic. Twelve people have died from the illness in B.C., and nearly 200 have been sufferers have been hospitalized.
