Short-term school closures may worsen flu pandemics, Pitt study ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 12/29/2009 - 23:00

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic, say University of Pittsburgh researchers in a study published online in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

The findings, developed from a series of computer simulations based on U.S. census data, indicate that schools may need to be closed for at least eight weeks in order to significantly decrease the spread of infection.

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