it’d been a long and difficult flu season with a number of deaths across Australia. The control of infection in Schools is vitally important. Sick children miss out on School, and all that is involved. Staff illness means that students miss out on classes and learning opportunities. At the same time it is important that members of the School community who have infectious diseases remain at home. By turning up at School, all they are doing is making more people sick. To read more about the control of infectious diseases and consequences of not controlling them, read our September newsletter.