Heights School Closure Not Affecting Dearborn Schools, District Confirms
Annapolis High School was closed on Friday after around 300 students became sick on Thursday.
A Dearborn Heights school was closed Friday when around 300 of the school's 800 students—as well as some staffers—called in sick on Thursday. According to the Dearborn Press and Guide, Annapolis High School is being cleaned by an outside crew due to concerns that the illnesses may be caused by the highly contagious norovirus. The norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, produces often severe flu-like symptoms, and can be spread through a person, surface, or contaminated food or water. Dearborn Public Schools spokesman David Mustonen said Friday that although the outbreak is hitting close to home, there's no cause for concern in the DPS district. "We're fine here," he said. "We haven't had any big sicknesses…
Linda
7:47 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
"Mustonen assured that Dearborn parents shouldn't be worried.....we’ll take steps to look into it and do preventative things to make sure that doesn’t happen," Parents definately should be worried. I'm not sure if there is a single public school that has an effective germ prevention program in place that actually works. In many years of my professional career the only example of an effective … more ›