Swine flu spread by jet-setting private school children, expert claims

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Swine flu in Britain was partially spread by rich public school children returning from exotic holidays, a leading expert on flu pandemics has claimed.

Published: 8:00AM GMT 20 Mar 2010

Profesor Lindsay Davies, national director of pandemic influenza preparedness for the Department of Health, said swine flu hot spots had emerged near private schools.

She was speaking at the British Medical Association annual conference of public health medicine.

"Many hot spots included public schools."

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And Prof Davies claimed the virus could be around for a long time, with five people currently in intensive care in London and a further 25 in London hospitals.

In Britain, 457 have died since the H1N1 virus broke out almost a year ago.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/s...ng-private-school-children-expert-claims.html

 

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Re: Swine flu spread by jet-setting private school children, expert claims

#1: "returning from exotic holidays, a leading expert on flu pandemics has claimed"


But when many citizens asks to forbid school children holidays from areas already notorious for the pandemic virus spreading -
- no public health advising of restrict travelling to such areas for school childrens is (was) nor suggested, nor imposed, and from WHO espec. nothing also!

Of course such impositions restricts individual human rights,
but the travel relaxations at the time,
restricted the undividual human rights of other to be more potentialy shielded from the illness (more travel buffering/... - more delay in the illness spreading to virgin zones, more time to enaugh SAFE vaccines).

After the usual retrology, it is admited the breach now only (thanks this leading expert).