CrainsNewYork.com recently reported on a NYC Private School, Horace Mann, closing due to the H1N1 virus.
(AP) – Another private school in New York City says it will close because of worries about swine flu.
The Horace Mann School said in an e-mail to parents that it will close at the end of the day Tuesday and reopen on May 26. The e-mail says lots of students have been going home with the flu, though no one has tested positive for swine flu.
The school says closing is in the best interest of students.
The Horace Mann School is located in Riverdale and is a member of the NAIS, ISAAGNY and Ivy League Prep School associations. It is a nonsectarian, co-educational day school serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.
Horace Mann is the latest in a growing number of city schools to close because of flu fears, during which 18 schools have been shut down in the past week.
While most people who have contracted the flu have developed mild symptoms that did not require hospitalization, city health officials are investigating the death of a 16-month-old child as a possible case of swine flu. In addition, it is widely known and mourned that NYC suffered its first swine-flu death last Sunday, when an assistant principal at a Queens public school died. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that here have been four confirmed and four probable cases of the virus at Rikers Island.
Health officials stated on Tuesday that New York has 14 new cases of swine flu, bringing the total confirmed to 273. Of those, there have been 192 confirmed cases in New York City.
Many cases of H1N1 virus infection have been mild, with symptoms resembling seasonal flu, such as fever, cough, sore throat, body aches and chills.
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this H1N1 is benign but is now spreading so fast that my main fear is a mutation down the line .. and then we are back to 1918