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…

Swine flu headlines seem to get fewer every day, but it’s just recently that students in local schools have come down with the virus.

Schools in St. Louis and St. Charles counties have confirmed cases within the last week. Administrators and…

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…

Hold the presses! Some universities got back to me late this afternoon about how the swine flu is affecting their students and study abroad options.

Washington University decided today to cancel an undergraduate study-abroad program that was scheduled to begin on…

I have been checking around to see if any area universities have postponed or canceled study abroad trips to Mexico this summer because of concerns about the swine flu. So far, the word I’ve gotten back is that all systems…