Effect of 4-Day School District Closure on Influenza-Like Illness Rates Among Students and Household Members - Kentucky, 2013

Authors

  • Elizabeth S. Russell Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning, Kentucky Department for Public Health, Frankfort, KY, United States; Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Yenlik Zheteyeva Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Hongjiang Gao Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Jeanette Rainey Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Jianrong Shi Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Karen Wong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Douglas Thoroughman Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning, Kentucky Department for Public Health, Frankfort, KY, United States; Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Amra Uzicanin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5078

Abstract

High rates of absences from influenza-like-illness (ILI) resulted in closure of a Kentucky school district for 4-days during the 2012-2013 influenza season. We calculated average daily rates of household ILI as recalled in paper surveys by parents for the weeks before, during, and after the closure. Average daily rates of ILI in the district that closed were not significantly reduced when compared with rates in 2 surrounding school districts that did not close.

Author Biography

Elizabeth S. Russell, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning, Kentucky Department for Public Health, Frankfort, KY, United States; Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

Elizabeth Russell received her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009, followed by a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health. During this time she spent one year at the Botswana-Harvard Partnership in Gaborone, Botswana, and received her MSc in Epidemiology. She became the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer assigned to the Kentucky Department for Public Health in 2012.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Russell, E. S., Zheteyeva, Y., Gao, H., Rainey, J., Shi, J., Wong, K., … Uzicanin, A. (2014). Effect of 4-Day School District Closure on Influenza-Like Illness Rates Among Students and Household Members - Kentucky, 2013. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5078

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