PUPILS RETURN AFTER MENINGITIS SCARE AT DAVEN SCHOOL (From Warrington Guardian)

PUPILS RETURN AFTER MENINGITIS SCARE AT DAVEN SCHOOL

PARENTS have allowed their children to return to a primary school after being assured it had no link with a meningitis outbreak.

Two pupils from Daven Primary in Congleton are this week recovering from the disease after contracting deadly meninigococcal septicaemia.

Adam Hammond, aged six, fell ill between Christmas and the new year, and has made a full recovery.

A five-year-old boy in the school year below Adam is in Macclesfield Hospital after being treated for the disease, and his condition is described as ''improving.''

Both boys come from the Bromley Farm estate, and more than 120 children were kept off school at Daven last week after news of the second case involving the five-year-old.

Pupil numbers at the 320-strong school were 40 per cent down on Thursday, but the vast majority of pupils returned this week after South Cheshire Health Authority staged a meeting on Thursday for worried parents.

''Parents were quite happy with what they heard from the authority, that it was safe to send their children to school, and there was no link between Daven and the two cases,'' said headteacher Paul Tolley.

A National Meningitis Trust bus also offered advice to concerned parents at the Lawton House surgery on Thursday and Friday.

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