Schools in Jamaica Plain, Dorchester latest to fall victim to swine flu

The Boston Public Health Commission just announced it's shutting the British School of Boston on Pond Street for a week starting tomorrow.

The commission says it took the action after learning that 160 of the school's roughly 300 students were abasent. The school provides British-style education for students from nursery school to high school.

The Dorchester Reporter reports that the Frederick Middle School on Columbia Road in Dorchester was also ordered closed.

Also closed: Boston Latin and the Winsor School in the Longwood Medical Area and the Umana Middle School in East Boston.