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May 4, 2009 5:50 pm US/Central
3 Orono Schools To Re-Open Tuesday
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Orono High School will remain closed, but the three other schools on the campus will reopen.
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Three of the four schools closed in Orono because of a "probable" case of the new H1N1 influenza will re-open on Tuesday, the Minnesota Department of Health said Monday.
Orono High School will remain closed, but the three other schools on the campus, including two elementary schools and the middle school, will be open Tuesday.
Officials closed the schools for Monday after learning that someone associated with Orono High School had a "probable" case of the H1N1 virus, which was originally referred to as the swine flu. Health Department officials did not say if that person was an adult or a student at the school.
Two other schools in the state will remain closed Tuesday. ROCORI Middle School has been closed since last week, after a person associated with the school became infected with the flu. Right now, that is the state's only confirmed case of the new flu.
Emerson Spanish Immersion School in south Minneapolis will also be closed all week, because of a "probable" case of the H1N1 flu.
No one who is being tested for H1N1 or the person with the confirmed case has been hospitalized, the Minnesota Department of Health said. The state said Monday that it will change its policies on who is tested for the flu because it is not as potent as first feared.
The state will now only collect specimens to be tested for H1N1 when a patient has been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.
MDH also said that effective Monday, schools can now decide on their own whether to close when someone associated with their school becomes sick.
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