Symptoms of the swine and seasonal flu are leading to a number of students missing school.
Several school districts say the number of absences is above average for this time of year.
Many schools, like Norwood City Schools, are dealing with higher than normal absences due to both the swine and seasonal flu.
Norwood school nurse, Kathy Strasser, is keeping track of the number of children missing class because of flu-like symptoms.
"The numbers are a little bit higher, but what I'm really seeing a lot more are the illnesses that's like the flu, the fever and the cough and soar throat, those types of things," Strasser said.
Norwood City Schools students will be some of the first in Greater Cincinnati to be vaccinated against the swine flu.
Strasser says they received their first shipment to vaccinate the first round of students whose parents signed and returned permission slips.
The district received both the shot and nasal flu mist vaccine on Tuesday.
"We're doing that during school hours. The following week, we're going to do a night time clinic where the parents can come with the kid, if they would like to do that,'" Strasser explained.
The district superintendent says he's relieved the vaccine has arrived for students.
In the meantime, he's encouraging parents to keep their children at home, if they show any sign of flu-like symptoms.
"The recommendations have that if you've been running a fever or have symptomatic type of effects of something that could be H1N1, seasonal flu, bad cold, but if you are running a temperature, running a fever, stay home until the fever has subsided for 24 hours," explained Norwood City Schools Superintendent, Rob Amodio.
The first round of the H1N1 vaccinations will take place at Allison Elementary School in Norwood on Monday.
