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The Davis Joint Unified School District, heeding advice from state health officials, will shut down Holmes Junior High School for one week because a student has been diagnosed with a "probable" case of swine flu.
Davis school officials said Holmes students - and their siblings, regardless of school - should remain home.
"At this point, quarantine means confinement to the home," stated a letter e-mailed to parents throughout the school district. "Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation with our effort to ensure the best possible outcome to this situation."
The Holmes student was one of two flu cases reported by Yolo County health officials Friday. The second case involves an adult. The county health department provided no additional details about the cases.
The school has canceled school functions, including a Civil War reenactment scheduled for Tuesday, as well as a hiking outing, said Cathy Farman, president of the school's Parent Teacher Association.
Meanwhile, Sacramento County health officials said the number of cases in its jurisdiction remained at five - one confirmed and four awaiting confirmation from the state laboratory in Richmond.
On Thursday, state health officials recommended that school districts close schools for at least seven days if a student has been infected, confirmed or probable, with the swine flu.
Thus far, symptoms from the new strain of influenza have been mild in the United States, but health officials have been aggressively monitoring the virus because of the severity of the outbreak in Mexico, where scores have died and hundreds have possibly been infected.
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Davis school officials said Holmes students - and their siblings, regardless of school - should remain home.
"At this point, quarantine means confinement to the home," stated a letter e-mailed to parents throughout the school district. "Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation with our effort to ensure the best possible outcome to this situation."
The Holmes student was one of two flu cases reported by Yolo County health officials Friday. The second case involves an adult. The county health department provided no additional details about the cases.
The school has canceled school functions, including a Civil War reenactment scheduled for Tuesday, as well as a hiking outing, said Cathy Farman, president of the school's Parent Teacher Association.
Meanwhile, Sacramento County health officials said the number of cases in its jurisdiction remained at five - one confirmed and four awaiting confirmation from the state laboratory in Richmond.
On Thursday, state health officials recommended that school districts close schools for at least seven days if a student has been infected, confirmed or probable, with the swine flu.
Thus far, symptoms from the new strain of influenza have been mild in the United States, but health officials have been aggressively monitoring the virus because of the severity of the outbreak in Mexico, where scores have died and hundreds have possibly been infected.
More...