Swine Flu Fears At Glastonbury Festival As Three People Are Sent Home

Three people, including a ten-year-old child, have been diagnosed with suspected swing flu at the Glastonbury festival.

Two students from Edinburgh and the child, who was with its family, were put into off-site isolation and have since left the event in Somerset.

A festival spokesman told the Press Association: "They presented with symptoms. All medical staff have been fully briefed.

“The view of the chief medical officer is that they had this before turning up.”

Organisers had anticipated a risk of swine flu due to the sheer scale of attendees to the festival.

But the spokesman said the event presented no more of a threat than anywhere else. “The figure of three in 177,000 people is regarded as very low,” he added.

As previously reported on Gigwise, nearly 2000 people have already been treated by doctors at the festival’s medical centre.

Last year, 1466 people were treated during the whole festival.

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