London - school is hit by swine flu

[pablomorgan]

PIXIE and Peaches Geldof?s old school has been closed after six pupils were struck down with swine flu.

The children aged 11 and 12 caught the deadly virus from a classmate who visited the US at Easter.

Now posh Alleyn?s School in Dulwich, south-east London, has shut its doors for at least seven days.

All pupils and staff are being given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu and A-level exams for pupils in Years 12 and 13 will also have to be rearranged, said headmaster Colin Diggory.

Pixie, 18 and her 20-year-old sister Peaches, daughters of millionaire rock legend Sir Bob Geldof, have both finished their education there. Pixie was famously briefly suspended when she was 16 after being caught smoking and drinking.

Other former pupils at the ?3,350-a-term independent school also include singer Jay Kay, 39, actor Jude Law, 36, and flamboyant TV presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, 44.

Alleyn?s became the fourth British school to be closed because of swine flu as nine new cases confirmed yesterday brought the UK toll to 27.

Not one of the seven children diagnosed yesterday had visited Mexico or the USA. They are thought to have caught the virus person-to-person.

The news came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced it could raise its pandemic rating from a stage five to stage six ? the highest alert level possible. More

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/79384/Pixie-s-school-is-hit-by-swine-flu/

[tropical]

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PIXIE and Peaches Geldof?s old school has been closed after six pupils were struck down with swine flu.

The children aged 11 and 12 caught the deadly virus from a classmate who visited the US at Easter.

Now posh Alleyn?s School in Dulwich, south-east London, has shut its doors for at least seven days.

All pupils and staff are being given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu and A-level exams for pupils in Years 12 and 13 will also have to be rearranged, said headmaster Colin Diggory.

Pixie, 18 and her 20-year-old sister Peaches, daughters of millionaire rock legend Sir Bob Geldof, have both finished their education there. Pixie was famously briefly suspended when she was 16 after being caught smoking and drinking.

Other former pupils at the ?3,350-a-term independent school also include singer Jay Kay, 39, actor Jude Law, 36, and flamboyant TV presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, 44.

Alleyn?s became the fourth British school to be closed because of swine flu as nine new cases confirmed yesterday brought the UK toll to 27.

Not one of the seven children diagnosed yesterday had visited Mexico or the USA. They are thought to have caught the virus person-to-person.

The news came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced it could raise its pandemic rating from a stage five to stage six ? the highest alert level possible. More
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view...-by-swine-flu/

Thanks PabloM.

So it spreading full range now.


P.S. "former" milionaire Bob Geldof - isn't he became poor after being helped to feed the poors in Africa many years ago (?)

[pablomorgan]

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Thanks for what. Did I miss something?

[tropical]

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Thanks for what. Did I miss something?

Ok, no thanks at all than .


I meant thanks for the news text information about spreading at schools in UK.

Or do you think that everyone of us here have the wires attached, so we gather news events about every minute?

A week ago there were nothing in UK.
Now they start with the same US patern of closing schools because of infections.

So, first Mex. than US, now UK, and after all the EU countries,
which drive us to the conclusion that this days TV media and some scientists releases about that this time this wave did not spread throughout EU as in USA is highly probable wrong and missleading.

[pablomorgan]

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Peaches Geldof Linked To Swine Flu
STEP forward, Pixie Geldof, sister to Peaches Geldof, and say why you should be the celebrity face of swine flu:

?Pixie in Pig Flu shocker ?(Star) and ?Swine Flu Closes Pixie?s School? (Express) set the tone for Pixie?s pitch. And not her?s alone:

PIXIE and Peaches Geldof?s old school has been closed after six pupils were struck down with swine flu.

The children aged 11 and 12 caught the deadly virus from a classmate who visited the US at Easter. Now posh Alleyn?s School in Dulwich, south-east London, has shut its doors for at least seven days.

Pixie is 18, younger sister to Peaches, 20?

All pupils and staff are being given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu and A-level exams for pupils in Years 12 and 13 will also have to be rearranged, said headmaster Colin Diggory.

So Peaches and Pixie don?t go to the school?

Other former pupils at the ?3,350-a-term independent school also include singer Jay Kay, 39, actor Jude Law, 36, and flamboyant TV presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, 44.

None of whom go to the school.

One who does got to Alleyn?s is 12-year-old Sophie De Salis.

http://www.anorak.co.uk/celebrities/209397.html

[Rocky]

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well that just set the clock back in the US too...

If they caught it from someone who visited at easter, that means it was pretty widespread before it hit the news...

[pablomorgan]

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Well spotted. I did'nt see that. I am going hunting for further info on this.

[pablomorgan]

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The incubation time that works out from this story seems too long.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/sw...nt-school.html

[Rocky]

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it was 2 weeks for the member of Obama's staff that came down with it on his Mexico trip before it passed to his family.

Could there have been a 3rd party it passed through on the way?

In my office from the first person who showed symptoms until everyone came down with whatever it was along with their families took only 7 days...

does anyone know where in the US the student traveled for Easter?

Two other children confirmed as suffering from swine flu on Monday were siblings of one of the infected Alleyn's pupils and attended Dolphin School in Battersea, south west London.

[pablomorgan]

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This has some info about earlier cases.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25421688-5018988,00.html

[Rocky]

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ahhh so it's those ausies that need the spell check...

Mexico meanwhile said its flu outbreak appeared to be stabilising.

One thing interesting that came out in that article is a girl was sick and 3 weeks later confirmed she had h1n1. So it doesn't just disappear like we've been led to believe...

now the real question is, does that mean she was still contageous that long because she hadn't knocked it out of her system?

I think there are a few things the Pros know that aren't being shared

[pablomorgan]

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A girl of 12 with swine flu told last night how she has been bullied by phone calls and text messages taunting her that she is 'going to die'.

Phoebe Wyburd, one of several pupils infected at a London public school, became ill at the end of last week.

When it was confirmed on Monday morning that she had contracted the virus, she immediately began receiving abusive texts, calls and emails. She has also had threatening insults via the social networking site Facebook.

Three of Phoebe's sisters have had abusive messages saying they will get the potentially deadly virus too.

Phoebe is one of six Year 7 pupils at Alleyn's School in Dulwich, South London, confirmed to have swine flu after one child caught it in America.

Yesterday she said at her home: 'One text said "You are going to die".

'I'm OK now though. I've been in bed most of the time. I do want to get back to school as I miss my friends.'

Her parents, Francis and Kate Wyburd, are furious at the abuse the family have suffered. Phoebe has four sisters - Ellie, 17, Maddy, 14, Sophie, 16, and Mimi, ten.

Mr Wyburd, 45, said: 'I do feel a bit like we've got the plague. Phoebe was upset by the first couple of texts, but once we explained she wasn't going to die she was OK.

'It is cyber-bullying. She knows some of the people who have been sending the messages, but quite a few of them were anonymous.

'All of our daughters, apart from our youngest, have got abusive calls, texts or emails about this.

'Phoebe is a 12-year-old child, and no one wants to be treated like this.'

The Health Protection Agency is in constant contact with the family, and Mr Wyburd, a marketing consultant, said: 'There are some quite aggressive parents who say none of us should be allowed out, but we are not a threat as we are not displaying any symptoms. Two of my daughters, who go to other schools in the area, have been asked not to go in, not for medical reasons, but because of concerns of the impact on other people.

'They are both fine and are not showing any symptoms, but people are just very worried about getting it.'

Alleyn's is one of five schools closed because of the virus. Among its 1,200 pupils is Kirsty O'Donnell, the teenage daughter of the Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, who oversees the Cobra emergency committee handling the outbreak.

Dulwich GP Dr Mahmood Hossaia, 68, said his surgery had been swamped by calls from people worried they had the virus.

He said: 'I think it is difficult for people to keep their rationality. I worked yesterday until 2am because we had about 50 times the number of calls we normally do. It has been non-stop.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1177720/The-girl-12-bullied-having-swine-flu.html