Four more swine flu cases confirmed

FOUR people at a special needs residential facility have been infected with swine flu, days after two children in a similar centre on the border died of the virus.

The cases, described by the HSE as a “cluster” of infections, have all been confirmed at the St Patrick’s Special School on Kells Road, Co Kilkenny, which caters for 50 children and up to a dozen adults with special needs.

Management at the school and residential centre are awaiting tests on a number of staff members who have been in close contact with the four already confirmed to have been infected with the virus.