BOY, 2, HAS PIG FLU.A BOY of two is confirmed to have swine flu swine flu n. A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine. after contracting it from a woman who returned from America. The toddler, from Oxford, is receiving anti-viral drugs and is said to be making a good recovery. He does not attend a playgroup playgroup Noun a regular meeting of infants for supervised creative play playgroup n → jardÃn m de infancia playgroup play n and is not thought to be a risk to other children. He was among four new cases of the H1N1 virus confirmed yesterday across England. The Department of Health said: "Cases of swine flu in the UK have so far been mild and our strategy of containing the spread appears to have been effective." |
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