Brusly Elementary will be closed Friday after a student at the school was diagnosed with the flu. West Baton Rouge Parish School Superintendent David Corona says the closing is being brought on by “an overabundance of caution.” The student, who was diagnosed with the flu has been out of school all week. The child has not been diagnosed with swine flu and has no siblings in the school system. All other West Baton Rouge Parish schools will be open Friday and Brusly Elementary teachers and staff must report to work. Plans are to reopen the elementary school Monday.
Meanwhile, the state’s health department says it is investigating eight suspected cases of swine flu in four parishes. That means the state laboratory in New Orleans could not identify the virus, and sent samples to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab in Atlanta for confirmation. A news release from the Department of Health and Hospitals says five are in Lafayette Parish, and one each from Orleans, St. Martin and St. Tammany parishes.
