Swine Flu Forces More NYC School Closures

NEW YORK (AP) - Five more New York City schools are closing
because of swine flu, bringing the current total to 11.
Health officials say four public schools and one Catholic school
will close Monday for up to five school days.
The schools are in Queens. Each of them had students with
flu-like illnesses last week. Three of the public schools are in
the same building.
Six other schools were closed over the last few days after
hundreds of students became ill with suspected swine flu symptoms.
An assistant principal at one school remains critically ill.
The city's first outbreak of swine flu occurred three weeks ago,
when about 700 students and 300 other people associated with a
Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill following the
return of several students from vacations in Mexico, the epicenter
of the outbreak.