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80 given anti-bird flu drugs
Last Modified: 29 May 2007
Source: PA News
Staff and patients at a hospital are being treated with anti-avian flu drugs after it emerged a health worker may have been infected with the virus.
Almost 80 people at Glan Clwyd hospital in North Wales have received the Tamiflu drug as a precaution.
The move comes after it was confirmed a worker at the hospital was being treated for the H7 flu virus.
Health officials are contacting a further 69 people at Gwynedd hospital after a former patient suffered symptoms.
On Monday, schoolchildren and staff at Ysgol Henllan primary school near the Corwen farm were offered courses of anti-flu drug Tamiflu after a pupil fell ill.
A total of 12 people are so far thought to have contracted the avian flu virus since it was discovered at a farm in Corwen last week.
Preliminary tests have confirmed two people are suffering from the H7 virus. Further tests are being carried out on the remaining 10 to establish whether they also have the illness.
The disease is the "very mild" H7N2 strain rather than the more virulent H5N1 variety.
The virus is thought to have spread from infected chickens, which were traded at Chelford Market in Cheshire two weeks ago.
Health officials said 221 people may have been in contact with the virus but stressed the spread of the disease from person to person would be "very unusual".
80 given anti-bird flu drugs
Last Modified: 29 May 2007
Source: PA News
Staff and patients at a hospital are being treated with anti-avian flu drugs after it emerged a health worker may have been infected with the virus.
Almost 80 people at Glan Clwyd hospital in North Wales have received the Tamiflu drug as a precaution.
The move comes after it was confirmed a worker at the hospital was being treated for the H7 flu virus.
Health officials are contacting a further 69 people at Gwynedd hospital after a former patient suffered symptoms.
On Monday, schoolchildren and staff at Ysgol Henllan primary school near the Corwen farm were offered courses of anti-flu drug Tamiflu after a pupil fell ill.
A total of 12 people are so far thought to have contracted the avian flu virus since it was discovered at a farm in Corwen last week.
Preliminary tests have confirmed two people are suffering from the H7 virus. Further tests are being carried out on the remaining 10 to establish whether they also have the illness.
The disease is the "very mild" H7N2 strain rather than the more virulent H5N1 variety.
The virus is thought to have spread from infected chickens, which were traded at Chelford Market in Cheshire two weeks ago.
Health officials said 221 people may have been in contact with the virus but stressed the spread of the disease from person to person would be "very unusual".
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