Health officials have reassured parents at a local school after bloody diarrhea was found in the boys' toilets. The parents were at a meeting with the school authorities at the Glenboi Primary School, Mountain Ash, in Friday and Saturday and were given home testing kits for their children.
The child who is affected from the potentially fatal disease has not yet been traced. "We haven't seen a case of anyone catching the infection person-to-person within a school which shows that our control measures have been effective in reducing the spread," said a spokesman for the outbreak control team. The E.coli outbreak in south Wales has affected almost 156 people and there has been one casualty.
The Glenboi School remained closed from Thursday and pupils are expected to return from Tuesday next, "Because we don't know who the person is, we can't remove that person from school...so it was decided it was best to close the school," confirmed Chris Morgan, acting head teacher at the school. He added that all the pupils would only be allowed to attend the school when they bring back negative results for E.coli.
On Tuesday, five-year-old Mason Jones, from Deri, Bargoed, died at the Bristol Children's Hospital and a post-mortem examination concluded that E.coli was indeed the culprit.
Meanwhile South Wales Police have sealed off meat suppliers John Tudor and Son, in Bridgend. They feel that is a criminal investigation is instigated then it was a potential crime scene. "An officer has been on preservation and security duties since we announced we were launching a criminal investigation. This is part of an ongoing investigation and it is going to take quite a while because it is so complex," a spokesman for the police said.
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on : Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:05 GMT | General News
By : Pippa Fielding
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