Ryan Koczot, a teacher at Broad Creek Middle School in Newport, North Carolina, believes that if proper precautions are taken early, such as telling parents to keep their sick children at home, schools will not have to close.

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And when two Jesuit priests were kidnapped, he said he convinced a Junta leader's priest to call in sick so he might celebrate Mass at the general's home and plead for mercy.

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"Those who are sick may wish to watch the Sunday TV Mass on their television at home and pray in solidarity with their parish community, " the statement said.

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If travelers are feeling sick, the state departments said travelers should follow CDC guidelines and stay at home.

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Smaller businesses would have to provide unpaid sick time, so workers couldn't lose a job for spending a day at home to attend to their health or a relative's.

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He is determined not to take any sick days and will even be working on Christmas, sporting a Santa costume at a local residential home.

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Pike read the book while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, picking it up one afternoon while heading home for a sick day.

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British officials have said traces of radioactive material were found at Litvinenko's home and places where he ate and met others just before becoming sick.

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