Parents want their children to feel close, but not too close, to day-care workers and preschool teachers.

One woman who was alarmed by the city's failure to help her is a day-care worker in Brooklyn with two young children.

A day-care worker, more than any other teacher, must be a substitute parent.

All the day-care workers must have spent a year in college studying care of children under age 3.

That includes day-care workers, teachers, baby sitters, coaches and relatives.

His mother, a day-care worker and single parent, took him to a hospital clinic.

A day-care worker, she practices when she can, especially in her car.

Evidence for an increased infection rate among day-care workers.

Typically, school children, day-care workers, teachers and mothers are most likely to be exposed to the virus.

They were cases reported by health-care professionals, school officials, day-care workers, law-enforcement personnel and the general public.