1918 Flu Closings May present Lessons for Today

An study of disease control measures used during the 1918 influenza pandemic offers lessons for commerce with the issue of school closures this fall in response to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, say U.S. investigators..

Last spring, school closures were a common and contentious strategy for controlling the spread of the H1N1 virus. Intense discuss about this type of action will likely occur again if the swine flu pandemic continues or worsens this fall, according to researchers at the University of Michigan and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

They studied how 43 American cities and their public school systems responded during the 1918 flu pandemic and found that school conclusion were almost always issued with community-wide nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as quarantine, isolation and bans on public gatherings.

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