Everybody seems to have vaccines on the brain lately, with the onset of the flu and the H1N1 season. I had been hearing in mom circles for months about a faction of parents that simply don’t get vaccinations for their…

Every school in Missouri will soon be able to send parents instant updates about the H1N1 flu through an alert notification system, according to the Missouri School Boards’ Association.

MSBA Executive Director Carter Ward said he knows of no other similar…

Washington University is reporting its first case of what appears to be swine flu — or the H1N1 virus — on campus. An undergraduate student, who lives in a university-managed apartment building, tested positive for influenza A late Tuesday.

Since most of…

St. Louis University has set up a “recovery center” a couple blocks off of campus where students who come down with swine flu can be isolated and treated.

The university sent out an email to students, staff and faculty this afternoon to…

More than 50 students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have reported flu-like symptoms and are suspected of having swine flu.

“Novel H1N1 influenza (”swine flu”) is present at MU,” Chancellor Brady Deaton wrote in an email yesterday to faculty, staff and…

Swine flu has hit St. Louis Public Schools. The district has just confirmed one case of H1N1 – at Nance Elementary, 8959 Riverview Boulevard, north of Interstate 70.

The school will not be closed, district officials said. No other child reported…

Looks like St. Louis Public Schools have, so far, no reported swine flu cases.

We’ll see if it stays that way long.

Still, the community is pitching in, hoping to help. Energizer gave 500,000 “pieces” (whatever that means) of antibacterial lotion to…

I was perusing Washington U.’s commencement Web site when I came upon the following message:

“In light of the recent outbreak of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus around the world, Washington University, following recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and…