Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Household Responses to School Closure Resulting from Outbreak of Influenza B, North Carolina

April J. Johnson*

, Zack S. Moore*†, Paul J. Edelson*, Lynda Kinnane‡, Megan Davies*†, David K. Shay*, Amanda Balish*, Meg McCarron*, Lenee Blanton*, Lyn Finelli*, Francisco Averhoff*, Joseph Bresee*, Jeffrey Engel†, and Anthony Fiore*

Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; ‡Toe River Health District, Burnsville, North Carolina, USA;

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A) Percentage of schoolchildren absent from public schools, by date, and B) total number of children surveyed with influenza-like illness, by date of illness onset, Yancey County, North Carolina, October 23–November 17, 2006.

Figure 1. A) Percentage of schoolchildren absent from public schools, by date, and B) total number of children surveyed with influenza-like illness, by date of illness onset, Yancey County, North Carolina, October 23–November 17, 2006.

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