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/\n earner wave ui ausenteeism due to a flu-like illness hit RCHS the previous month following a furnace breakdwon. “We saw absenteeism jump a few days after the furnace quit,” Toth said. On January 24, the date the furnace malfunctioned, 39 students were absent. “It got real, real cold in the school,” Toth recalled. The next day, he said, 68 students were out and on the following day, absenteeism hung at 60.
With no maintenance help available this Tuesday, Toth and principal Dennis Wingfield spent hours in the furnace room, trying to keep heating equipment going so as to ayoid the drop in temperature that sparked the January outbreak.
Public Health Nurse Frances Thornton described the illness as a viral infection of the respiratory tract. It begins with a cough, sneezing, headache, fever and sometimes an upset stomach or sore throat and then progresses into a general aching all over, she said.
Thornton emphasized that there’s no cure for the flu. She advised those hit by the bug to rest in bed, drink plenty of fluids and take aspirin for their aches. The virus generally runs its course in three to four days, she noted.
Thornton suggested that parents keep children at home if they exhibit any flu symptoms so as to avoid further spreading of the airborne virus.
Among patients seen by Doctors Werner Krebser and Jerry Martin at the Rappahannock Clinic, Dr. Krebser reported that
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