Flu hits Lakeville school hard

Public health officials have warned for months that the H1N1 flu pandemic could cause absentee rates of 30 percent or more at schools and businesses across the country, and it looks like that is already happening at one elementary school in Lakeville. Close to a third of the students at Eastview Elementary School stayed home yesterday. MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Dick Oscarson, the school's principal.

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