Tuesday, August 25, 2009
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University officials say 18 students at the school in Pittsburgh are believed to have H1N1 flu, which is also known as swine flu.
The university has e-mailed that information to its 10,000 students and is asking any who live off campus and have symptoms to stay away from school until they’re cleared medically.
Students already on campus with the symptoms are being isolated and treated by the university’s medical staff. Those students will stay in isolation until they stop taking fever-reducing medicine and manage to remain fever-free for 24 hours.
Professors will be alerted about ill students so they will have an opportunity to make up class work.