British school offered treatment after child infected with bird flu

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — A group of school pupils and teachers have been given anti-viral treatment as a precaution after a child became infected with a low-risk strain of bird flu in Wales, health officials said on Monday.

The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) said a dozen schoolchildren aged nine and 10 as well as two teachers were receiving the Tamiflu drug after it learned they had spent time with the youngster.

It said in a statement that the group in Ysgol Henllan school in Denbighshire, which has 58 pupils, were at a "very slight" risk of infection.

NPHS said Sunday that a total of 11 people had symptoms of flu or conjunctivitis, though nobody is seriously ill. They were among 36 people who could have been in contact with the disease.

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