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| About 40 children and staff at the nursery unit of a south Belfast primary school are to be screened for E. coli. | About 40 children and staff at the nursery unit of a south Belfast primary school are to be screened for E. coli. |
| The Eastern Board says it took the decision after three members of the same family contracted the infection, which can cause diarrhoea and vomiting. | The Eastern Board says it took the decision after three members of the same family contracted the infection, which can cause diarrhoea and vomiting. |
| One of them - a four-year-old boy - attends the nursery unit at Rosetta Primary School. | One of them - a four-year-old boy - attends the nursery unit at Rosetta Primary School. |
| Dr Lourda Geoghegan from the Easter Board said that the school itself remains open. | Dr Lourda Geoghegan from the Easter Board said that the school itself remains open. |
| "With regard to the nursery unit at Rosetta Primary School, we are advising a thorough environmental clean of the nursery unit," she said. | |
| "We hope that that will happen over the weekend, but it may not. | |
| "If it doesn't happen over the weekend it will happen on Monday and Tuesday and that may disrupt some of the work in the nursery unit." | |
| The new cases come just a few weeks after the Board made arrangements to screen more than 500 people associated with a number of nursery units in Belfast - this resulted in a total of six people being previously confirmed with the infection. | The new cases come just a few weeks after the Board made arrangements to screen more than 500 people associated with a number of nursery units in Belfast - this resulted in a total of six people being previously confirmed with the infection. |
| The board said there was no confirmed link between these events, but said people should be mindful of the increased risks of E. coli 0157 in the springtime. |