H1N1 concern after student meeting

THERE are concerns more student union officers who attended a training session in Waterford last week may have contracted swine flu after two delegates were confirmed to have the illness.

The delegates, from University of Ulster, left the five-day session at Waterford Institute of Technology on Thursday after complaining of feeling unwell.

However, their swine flu diagnosis was only confirmed at the weekend, by which stage officers from a number of the 23 colleges represented at the conference, which was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), were also showing flu-like symptoms.