Boy aged 2 is victim of swine flu; VIRUS.Byline: EMILY COOK A BOY of two has been confirmed with 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. . He is thought to have contracted the disease from a 29-year-old woman recently returned from America and who was diagnosed on Sunday. The boy, from Oxford, is receiving anti-viral drugs and is said to be making a good recovery. He does not attend a school, playgroup playgroup Noun a regular meeting of infants for supervised creative play playgroup n → jardÃn m de infancia playgroup play n or toddler group and is not thought to be a risk to other children. The toddler was among four news cases of the H1N1 virus confirmed yesterday, in London, the South East and West Midlands West Midlands, former metropolitan county, central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Birmingham conurbation and comprised seven metropolitan districts: Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, regions. A Department of Health spokesman said: "Cases of swine flu in the UK have so far been mild, and our strategy of containing the spread with anti-virals appears to have been effective in reducing symptoms and preventing further spread of infection." The UK total of confirmed cases is now 137. CAPTION(S): SCARY The H1N1 strain |
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