MAC SLAVIN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Noah Campus Health Clinic has confirmed three cases of H1N1 and has seen 40 students exhibit flu symptoms, according to the communication and marketing department.
Wartburg wasn’t the only Waverly school hit by the flu last week. Waverly Shell-Rock Junior High School’s principal, Steve Kwikkel, said 66 students missed classes on Tuesday.
“This is the highest outbreak we’ve had to deal with, but I think come next week we’ll be back to normal,” he said.
Kwikkel said the staff in the office tried to help students as much as they could.
“As kids came [into the office] we would take their temperature and we’d send them home immediately,” he said.
“We tried to err on the side of caution, and if the kids weren’t feeling well, we did whatever we could to get them home,” Kwikkel said.
Jaime Robbins, the school nurse for the Waverly Shell-Rock School District said students have generally missed three to five days of school with the flu-like symptoms.
Robbins and the Noah Health Clinic are telling students to keep washing their hands and to stay home when they are sick.
“My hope is that the worst of it is over right now; it’s been quite a week,” Kwikkel said.