Hospital patients and staff are being offered treatment by officials fighting a bird flu outbreak in north Wales.
Nearly 80 at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd at Bodelwyddan are being offered tamiflu as a health worker is treated. Around another 70 at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor are being contacted, and 13 people with flu-like symptoms or conjunctivitis have been identified. Bird flu has been confirmed on a Conwy smallholding, but tests have now proved negative on a Llyn peninsula farm. The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) said on Wednesday that 13 avian flu contacts had been identified who have had symptoms of a flu-like illness or conjunctivitis. They stressed that no-one has been seriously ill and the risk to the health of the general public is low. So far the service has found a total of 221 people who may have come into contact with the virus, which is not as serious as the H5N1 strand of the disease.
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