Surge in flu cases in students

<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 13.7999992370605px;">The Department of Public Health is seeing a steady increase in influenza or flu cases in Guam and a lot of those cases are within the school system.</span>

October 27, 2014Updated: October 27, 2014
KUAM NewsBy KUAM News
by Sabrina Salas Matanane

Guam - The Department of Public Health is seeing a steady increase in influenza or flu cases in Guam and a lot of those cases are within the school system. Because of this the agency is stressing the importance that if parents, students, or children are experiencing flu symptoms to stay home so that the virus does not spread. Those symptoms include: cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, fever, chills and body aches.