Short-term school closures may worsen flu pandemics
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by tel
Short-term school closures may worsen flu pandemics
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Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic. The findings, developed from a series of computer simulations based on U.S. census data, indicate that schools may need to be closed for at least eight weeks in order to significantly decrease the spread of infection.
Sourced from: ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News
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