Educators take steps to ward off swine flu spread
Source: galvestondailyn Posted By: Betty D...5346 days ago
Schools across Galveston County are stepping up education and sanitation efforts in hopes to stave off a repeat of swine flu outbreaks that interrupted classes across the nation last year.
The schools’ prevention efforts come at the same time as a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report that estimated that swine flu, also known as H1N1, could infect half the U.S. population this fall and winter.
“While we do not face an immediate threat from the flu, there is a chance....