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Education Ministry to implement flu prevention measures in schools

The Education Ministry will implement three strategies of student-screening, disease watching and administration integrating in a bid to prevent a Type A H1N1 influenza outbreak at schools during the new semester and winter season, a senior official said Monday.

Deputy Permanent Secretary for Education Niwat Nakawet said that, although the number of such influenza patients at schools was greatly declined to almost normal, he had called a meeting of related agencies supervising schools to set preventive strategies for implementation. He said the schools would screen sick students and report to the supervising educational zone office on daily basis, while also intensively watching out for the disease and having related agencies integrated in the prevention and tackling attempts against the influenza outbreak.


-- The Nation 2009/10/27

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webfact, on 2009-10-27 06:27:04, said:

Education Ministry to implement flu prevention measures in schools

The Education Ministry will implement three strategies of student-screening, disease watching and administration integrating in a bid to prevent a Type A H1N1 influenza outbreak at schools during the new semester and winter season, a senior official said Monday.

Deputy Permanent Secretary for Education Niwat Nakawet said that, although the number of such influenza patients at schools was greatly declined to almost normal, he had called a meeting of related agencies supervising schools to set preventive strategies for implementation. He said the schools would screen sick students and report to the supervising educational zone office on daily basis, while also intensively watching out for the disease and having related agencies integrated in the prevention and tackling attempts against the influenza outbreak.

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-- The Nation 2009/10/27

I don't know what normal is in this case, but by now I am sure that Dep. Perm Sec. Niwat is well aware that an outbreak of swine flu has occurred just this week in one of Bangkok's most prestigious international schools leading to the closure of several grades (as per BMA guidelines). This can only mean that it has been occurring in an equal amount in many Thai schools.