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Strongsville schools Superintendent John Krupinski told the school board Thursday that the district will scrub each school building once a week, due to the Ebola threat (Bob Sandrick/Northeast Ohio Media Group).

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- The Strongsville schools will scrub each school building weekly in response to the Ebola threat, although there have been no confirmed Ebola cases in Ohio.

Superintendent John Krupinski and Mark Donnelly, the district's director of business services and technology, made the announcement earlier tonight during a school board meeting.

Krupinski said he and other school superintendents in Ohio took part in a conference call Thursday afternoon with Gov. John Kasich; Rick Hodges, head of the Ohio Department of Health; and Richard Ross, Ohio's superintendent of public instruction. The topic was Ebola.

One superintendent asked the state officials what schools can do to be proactive and keep Ebola out of their districts.

"The answer was, 'Nothing,'" Krupinski said. "Unless there is documented evidence of a confirmed case, there is no need to be alarmed."

Nevertheless, Strongsville schools are ordering additional medical supplies, including surgical gloves and quaternary disinfectant cleaners, Donnelly said. The district will scrub doorknobs, desktops, keyboards, phones, bathroom fixtures and other commonly-touched items in each school every Friday.

Krupinski said the cleanings, in addition to acting as a precautionary measure against Ebola, will also combat the spread of flu.

"If nothing else, it will keep germs and infections down among staff and students," Donnelly said.

Donnelly said the weekly cleanings will prepare the school district if an Ebola outbreak occurs. He said the scrubbing will probably last until Thanksgiving.

Krupinski said state officials, during Thursday's conference call, stressed that providing correct information about Ebola to the public is key. He said Ebola is spread by touching bodily fluids of those infected, not through air, food or water.

Krupinski said those who have "indirect contact" with Ebola patients are at "extremely low risk" of contracting the disease.

State officials said everyone who has come into direct contact with an Ebola patient has been quarantined, and everyone with indirect contact is being "closely monitored," Krupinski said.

Meanwhile, hospitals throughout Ohio have had or will have Ebola preparedness drills, Krupinski said.

Krupinski said school officials will post information about Ebola on the district website Friday morning.

Families can also find information on the Ohio Department of Health website or by calling the state's Ebola hotline at 866-800-1404.

Earlier today, Solon schools closed two of its school buildings as a precaution to protect students from Ebola.

That's because a Solon Middle School teacher flew on a Frontier Airlines plane Tuesday, the day after Dallas nurse Amber Joy Vinson flew back to Texas. Vinson, 29, who spent the weekend in Akron, tested positive for Ebola earlier this week.

Meanwhile, Akron Public Schools closed Judith A. Resnik Community Learning Center after Summit County Public Health determined that a parent of a student there had contact with Vinson in the days before she tested positive for Ebola.

A Krupinski spokesperson said earlier today that he knew of no connection between Vinson and anyone in the Strongsville schools.