The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District says more than 200 students have been absent with flu like symptoms and there are at least 35 confirmed cases of swine flu.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the school district will provide shots to all students and staff when the vaccine arrives.

The district's head nurse, Maureen Kauleinamoku, says a total of more than 1,300 students have complained to school nurses about flu like symptoms - fatigue, nausea, fever, sore throat, congestion or body aches. The majority were sent home.

She says the flu is unusually early. The typical flu season runs from October to April.