Reply #25: Local School Closes Because Of Confirmed Case Of Swine Flu

[OhioChick]

April 26, 2009

ELYRIA, Ohio -- National, state and local health officials have advised Ely Elementary School to close its doors for a week after a 9-year-old student diagnosed with swine flu.

The boy recently traveled to Mexico on vacation with his family.

Health department spokesman Robert Jennings said Sunday the boy is recovering at his home in Elyria, in northern Ohio's Lorain County. The child's name was not released.

Jennings said the Centers for Disease Control confirmed the case and said it is the same deadly strain of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico.

Jennings said the boy displayed typical symptoms of the flu, including a sore throat and body aches. Jennings says the child returned from Mexico within the past two weeks.

Jennings said the boy's relatives are being tested for the disease, but they currently do not have any symptoms.

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