WLS-TV Chicago, IL (12/14) reported that a new study from Penn State University published online in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," indicates that there are "more than 750,000 opportunities for the [flu] to spread daily" in high schools nationwide. "The main reason is because teachers, students and staff are in close proximity which makes it easy to spread the illness."
Health Day (12/14, Goodwin) reported that the study was conducted "by outfitting students and teachers with wireless sensors," simulating "how the flu might spread through a typical American high school." Researchers then "ran computer simulations using the 'contact network' data collected at the high school" and found that "their predictions for how many would fall ill closely matched absentee rates during the actual H1N1 flu pandemic in the fall of 2009."
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