Swine Flu: Disease Control

(asked on 30th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent the spread of the new swine flu strain in humans.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 7th December 2023

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is monitoring the situation closely and is taking steps to increase surveillance within existing programmes involving general practice surgeries and hospitals in parts of North Yorkshire. UKHSA and partner organisations are tracing contacts of the case in Yorkshire and offering testing and encouraging anyone who is contacted to take a test.

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