Reporting Influenza Like Illness

Reporting Influenza Like Illness

Influenza type illness (ILI) is an acute onset of respiratory symptoms with fever and one or more of the following symptoms, sore throat, muscle aches, joint pain, weakness. Laurier students are not required in fall of 2009 to obtain a physician’s note in order to request academic accommodation due to absence because of flu-like symptoms. You may use this link www.wlu.ca/h1n1 and use your secure Novell login and password.  This form must be complete within 24 hours of returning to class. You may fill in this form electronically.

Information gathered by the flu declaration website will be used to identify patterns and incidences of  flu-like illnesses and to track occurrences of  the flu in residence, in response to request from Public Health regarding student absenteeism due to the flu.