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11:46am Thursday 9th July 2009 in
CASES of swine flu have been confirmed at three more East Lancashire schools.
Darwen Vale and Pleckgate High are the latest in Blackburn with Darwen to have someone contract the virus.
And two pupils at Helmshore Primary School are also recovering at home after being diagnosed with the illness.
Darwen Vale said letters had been sent home to parents but refused to say whether it was a pupil or a teacher.
Coun Chris Thayne, executive member for children’s services, said: “The council is working with a wide range of providers and public services to identify and treat members of the public who are showing symptoms of flu.”
Governmental advice is that if a schoolchild, teacher or parent is diagnosed with swine flu, they should stay at home until completely recovered and for at least seven days.
Family members who have no symptoms, should go to school or work as normal.
However, if they start to develop symptoms they should phone their GP or NHS Direct for advice.
Hugh Lamont, of the Health Protection Agency, said: “We have stopped doing laboratory tests routinely on all suspected cases and are now relying on the clinical judgment of GPs.”
He said it was inevitable that there will be more GP-diagnosed cases than there were laboratory-confirmed cases.
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shellywelly
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4:50pm Thu 9 Jul 09
No C Parker
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5:28pm Thu 9 Jul 09
Norm de Plume
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5:46pm Thu 9 Jul 09
Lifeinthemix
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Lifeinthemix
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Lifeinthemix
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Lifeinthemix
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11:54am Fri 10 Jul 09
donut1
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hasslem hasslem
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12:32pm Fri 10 Jul 09
Lifeinthemix wrote:Please catch swine-flu and die
Hi All. Law abiding citizen The internet for me is a new event, I am a writer in the usual sense, and yes I have written copious amounts on history with the added secret society missing links, with great success globally I might add. My reason for posting on the Telegraph, was to try and balance the imbalance that exists in the UK. You see no one is more shocked than I at the fact, the northerners are way behind our southern brothers and sisters in grasping the reality of the conspiracy we are presently suffering, and so I want to change that by presenting the information in a way I thought you would understand. I never thought I would speak these words : What we call the southern softies, are far in advance in intelligence, than the northern tribes. You who have nothing but contempt for truth, you are the proof that intelligence is missing from Lancsashire, and the reason the BNP, which is an Anti-Defamation League operation, has chosen to instill itself in an area of my Blighty, that knows nothing beyond primary school mentality. A sad indictment indeed, but the longer I try to balance this divide, the more I see the informatioin is way beyond your comprehension. The only possible excuse for this sad reality, is the fact most who post on the telegraph forum are very working class and very ignorant. So there is hope yet, and not being a man who fears nor gives up....I will continue my work in my beloved lancashire, while fully understanding the majority of lancastrian's are below parr on thought processes.
Lifeinthemix
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Slimplynth
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Hopping mad
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Lifeinthemix
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Slimplynth
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Lifeinthemix
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oooh
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Slimplynth
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Slimplynth
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Slimplynth
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12:53am Sat 11 Jul 09
Lifeinthemix wrote:LifeInTheMix... "Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see" ;0) In any case your implication that I do not understand the elite puzzles me, who are the elite? and what should everyone else do to achieve this level. Money buys you somethings but intellect isn't one of them... I should know, I'm very poor ;-)
Hi All. Slimplynth I hope you are correct, but I understand the language of the elite, this I'll wager will mark the start of the media discussing forced vaccinations, then slowley but surely the masses will accept it ready perhaps for the Autumn. We will have to waut for their conclusion. Here is the latest : http://www.lifeinthe mixtalk.com/?p=562
Lifeinthemix
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Lifeinthemix
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OBT2
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Slimplynth
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Lifeinthemix
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Slimplynth
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Slimplynth
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Hopping mad
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oooh wrote:If you don't like it up here in peasanthood, why don't you feck off down south to your seriously clean areas like london. Full of flu victims down there spitting and slavering all over the place or maybe your from birmingingham. Its no wonder you think were all like that though looks like your residing in burnley the place down.
I think the lot of you have more important things to worry about. Something I have commented on several times. The Lancashire love of spitting. None of you seem to be aware how filthy a habit it is. I find it quite incredible that people in one county could be so ignorant, so lazy and so dirty. You'll all be going down like ninepins so quit squabbling. Instead, stop spitting, use a handerchief or tissue (remember them?) and wash your hands after going to the toilet and, as a Southerner, I'll stop calling you dirty, lazy, ignorant peasants.
Lifeinthemix
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charlie
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mys
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Lifeinthemix says...
4:08pm Thu 9 Jul 09
Shelly just out of interest, how do you know it was swine flu?
Did someone tell you it was swine flu or have you studied the DNA slides of your child?
Did you then compare it with the laboratory genetic information to verify whoever told you she had it was correct?
Or are you like the millions of weak people in the UK who run to the docs at the slightest snivel, to be prescribed a dose of whatever medication the doctor you see has big shares in??
Go on be honest if you can that is!