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flu B outbreak affects five primary schools in Swindon

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
30 November 2010 Last updated at 14:51 ET

A flu outbreak affects five primary schools in Swindon
A primary school in Swindon has closed and another four have been affected by a flu outbreak in the town.

Grange Junior School is closed and is due to reopen on Friday. It said out of a school roll of 323 children, 160 were off with the bug.

High levels of absence were also reported at Colebrook Junior and Infant Schools, Sevenfields Primary and Catherine Wayte School.

The Health Protection Agency confirmed an outbreak of influenza type B
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11880927
 
Re: flu B outbreak affects five primary schools in Swindon

Source: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8717426.Pupils_return_to____flu____school/

Pupils return to ?flu? school
8:00pm Thursday 2nd December 2010
* By Emma Dunn ?


HUNDREDS of school children are expected to put their uniforms back on after illness forced their school to close.

Grange Junior School, in Stratton St Margaret, was closed for 72 hours for a deep clean in a bid to stop flu and other illnesses spreading across the school.

Around 160 pupils out of the 323 children at the school were suffering with influenza type B ? a rapidly spreading virus although a mild form of flu ? as well as an outbreak of a separate vomiting bug...
 
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