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Article: Schools get advice to avoid flu outbreaks
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- October 21, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- For millions of students and school workers who will
miss flu shots this year, the advice is elementary: Wash your hands
and stay home if you are sick.
Only children with chronic medical problems or who take aspirin
daily for health reasons should get a flu shot during the shortage,
federal officials say.
Healthy adults are encouraged to skip the shots to extend the U.S.
vaccine, which has been almost cut in half because of contamination
at the British plant where it was made.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding
schools that good hygiene can help keep them from turning into germ
factories.
At Luther Jones Elementary in Corpus Christi, Texas, a school ...