A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy was at the centre of a killer virus scare today.

Warren Hargreaves, from Accrington, was admitted to Blackburn Infirmary with suspected meningitis on Saturday lunchtime.He was transferred to the intensive care unit at the specialist Booth Hall Hospital, Manchester, at 4pm, and his parents are keeping a bedside vigil.

The sister in charge of the intensive care unit at Booth Hall said: "Warren is suffering from suspected meningitis but we have had no conclusive tests to show he is suffering from this virus."

Dr Stephen Morton, East Lancashire's director of public health, said: "We have had one notification involving a young boy who has been transferred to a hospital in Manchester.

"He must be seriously ill if he has been transferred to paediatric intensive care bed."

Dr Morton said the boy's family had been given the statutory two days antibiotics.

He said the boy's school friends had not been contacted as it was believed to be a single case.

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