Updated: 9:04 PM Sep 3, 2009
School closes due to illness
Another Eastern Kentucky school closes due to an unknown illness affecting one student. Knott County school officials told parents of children attending Cordia School to keep them home as a precaution.
Posted: 6:31 PM Sep 3, 2009
Reporter: Angela Beavin
Email Address: angela.beavin@wymtnews.com
School closes due to illness
Another Eastern Kentucky school closes due to an unknown illness affecting one student. Knott County school officials told parents of children attending Cordia School to keep them home as a precaution.
Cordia School was empty Thursday and will be for the rest of the week. A student was taken to UK Hospital in Lexington Wednesday with possible swelling in his head. Officials say they wanted to be safe and closed the school in order to take appropriate measures.
While the student is being treated, Knott County School officials are waiting to hear any information. Superintendent Kimberly King says, “They’re doing tests. There’s no confirmation of any infectious disease, but they’re running tests and said it would be 48 hours before we receive the results of the test.”
In the meantime, Cordia Principal Dwight Creech says they’re preparing for anything, in light of the recent illnesses schools are dealing with. Creech says, “With the Swine Flu and those type of things, since the beginning of school and before school we took extra precautions as far as disinfectants; cleaning the door knobs, you know, trying to go the extra mile.”
Creech and Knott County school officials say all of the cleaning and measures they’re taking are to make sure the school is safe. They say they’d rather be safe than sorry. “We would tend to close down if we have any level of concern. We would close down,” Creech says.
King says other Cordia kids and parents should understand that this is most likely not a contagious case. “The doctor said they were almost positive there was nothing infectious,” she says. Officials say they will keep students out of the building until they hear the final word from doctors.
Principal Creech says the cleaning crews will work through the entire weekend. He says school should resume on Tuesday, after the holiday.
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More inside info:
Several cases of swine flu at Orlando Children’s Hospital. Staff told to keep quiet about it.
Why do they cover it up?
I imagine it’s like this at hospitals all over the country.
Nice. But all the disinfecting of doorknobs, etc. is futile against an airborne viral disease!
Does anyone have a list of symptoms and how this flu presents itself. My neighbor woke up with a sore throat but feels ok otherwise.
I have dosed her with Esberitox, Vitamin D3 & C, olive leaf, and my drops of Virattack and Lomatium.
Any other suggestions?