New York Closes More Schools as Assistant Principal Dies from Flu

Published On: May 18th, 2009

The new flu strain took the life of an assistant principal at a New York City school over the weekend, and the city closed more schools as flu-like symptoms spread among children.

After closing three schools in the city’s Queens borough late last week, the city said more would be closed. In total, 11 schools in the city have been closed since Thursday, the New York Times reports.

The city also recommended that people with underlying health problems such as diabetes or asthma see their doctor if they’ve been exposed to somebody with flu, and to seek medical treatment if they have flu-like symptoms. Public-health officials have said that people with the most severe cases have often had underlying conditions.

One of them was Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal who died. His family told NYT he’d suffered from gout but that it was under control with medication.

Thomas Frieden, New York City’s health commissioner and the soon-to-be director of the CDC, said in the city’s news release that the city was trying to slow the virus’s spread through the particular schools that were closing, but that the measure wouldn’t stop it from spreading more widely within the city. The city’s “primary goal,” he said, is “to reduce the number of people who get seriously ill from the flu.”

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