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The Sun
29-05-2025
- General
- The Sun
‘Stay at home' warning issued to Brits over ‘incredibly infectious' virus that forced school to shut after outbreak
A 'STAY AT HOME' warning has been issued to Brits, after an infectious virus caused a school to shut down. Three children at a primary school in Hampshire were hospitalised after contracting the virus last week, with the school forced to partially close on Friday. 3 3 The children - along with four other pupils in the same class, who were not sick enough to go to hospital - had contracted norovirus, an "incredibly infectious virus" that can be spread for 48 hours after symptoms stop. Following the outbreak, at Compton All Saints Church of England Primary School, near Winchester, the Government has issued a 'stay at home' warning to anyone who has contracted the virus. The UK Health Security Agency said: "Norovirus is incredibly infectious, so if you're feeling unwell stay home for 48 hours after symptoms stop as you are still infectious during this time." The 120-pupil school revealed that he UKHSA had advised them to isolate the class with the outbreak from the rest of the school. However, since this was "logistically impossible", Compton All Saints was forced to close the class. The school was then subject to a deep clean, as the children broke up from school for the half term break. Cases of norovirus - which is known as the winter vomiting bug - are above average for this time of year. The last UKHSA report revealed that cases were more than double the five season average, with a total of 14,959 laboratory reports between March 31 and April 27, compared to the average of 6,446. What is norovirus? Norovirus is an incredibly contagious stomach bug, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, as well as a high temperature, headaches, stomach ache and body aches. It spreads very easily between people, and symptoms strike within hours or days of infection. The virus is spread through being in close contact with someone with the illness, or touching infected surfaces and then touching your mouth. What are the norovirus symptoms and how long does the winter vomiting bug last? It can also spread through eating food that has been handled by someone who has norovirus, or drinking unclean water. When you have norovirus, you shed billions of tiny particles, that can only be seen with a mircoscope. It takes just a few norovirus particles to make people infected and sick. Norovirus: Key symptoms + how to protect yourself The main symptoms or norovirus, according to the NHS, are: Feeling sick (nausea) Diarrhoea Being sick (vomiting) You may also have: A high temperature A headache Aching arms and legs You can usually treat norovirus at home - the most important thing to do is rest and have lots of fluids to avoid dehydration. As norovirus is easily spread it's important to do what you can to prevent catching it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends four things you can do to protect yourself. Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially: After using the toilet or changing nappies Before eating, preparing, or handling food Before giving yourself or someone else medicine It's important to be aware hand sanitisers don't always work well against norovirus. You can use them in addition to hand washing, but it shouldn't be a substitution. Before preparing and eating your food the CDC recommends the following: Carefully wash fruits and vegetables well Cook oysters and other shellfish thoroughly to an internal temperature of at least 63°C Routinely clean and sanitise kitchen utensils, cutting boards, counters, and surfaces, especially after handling shellfish Keep raw oysters away from ready-to-eat food in your shopping basket, refrigerator, and on cutting boards Throw away food that might contain norovirus Noroviruses are relatively resistant to heat and can survive temperatures as high as 63°C. Quick steaming processes will not heat foods enough to kill noroviruses. And be aware food contaminated with norovirus may look, smell, or taste normal. After someone with norovirus vomits and has diarrhoea you should: Wear rubber or disposable gloves and wipe the entire area with paper towels and throw them in a plastic trash bag Disinfect the area as directed on the product label Leave bleach disinfectant on the affected area for at least five minutes Clean the entire area again with soap and hot water Wash laundry, take out the trash, and wash your hands An expert recently warned norovirus can spread via clothes. Immediately remove and wash clothes or linens that may have vomit or poo on them. When you do this: Wear rubber or disposable gloves Handle items carefully without shaking them Wash the items with detergent and hot water at the maximum available cycle length and then machine dry them at the highest heat setting Wash your hands after with soap and water Because of this, the bug can spread rapidly through hospitals, making patients, staff and visitors ill. The NHS advise for people who have contracted the virus is: "Stay off school or work until you have not been sick or had diarrhoea for at least two days. "This is when you're most infectious. "Do not visit hospitals or care homes during this time." Most people start to recover from the virus in two to three days. However, in some cases, it can linger for weeks or even months. Brits are advised to call 111 if vomiting hasn't stopped after two days, or diarrhoea hasn't stopped after seven days. 3
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
British Trad Wife Charlie Gray says women thank her for giving them 'permission to be at home'
A British Trad Wife says that people have thanked her for 'giving them permission' to be a stay-at-home parent. Charlie Gray, 42, who lives in a large house in the West Sussex countryside, regularly posts her tips on homemaking on her @ askcharliehow Instagram and YouTube pages and says she is proud to be a traditional housewife. A growing number of women particularly in the US and increasingly the UK, are calling themselves Trad Wives - rejecting the feminist plight in the hopes of championing traditional feminine roles of looking after the home and keeping out of work. Speaking to Woman's Hour presenter Nuala McGovern on Tuesday, Charlie, who runs cookery courses on making dishes such as sourdough and foraged wild nettle pasta, says she hasn't encountered any negativity about not having a formal job. When McGovern suggested to the mother of three teenagers that the content she makes might be 'setting women back', Gray responded: 'I've just had people saying "thank you for giving me permission to be able to stay at home and not feel the pressure to go back to work"'. The influencer, who has more than 34,000 followers on Instagram, is married to husband Simon, 18 years her senior, whom she met while working as a secretary - she described him in an interview with The Telegraph last month as 'the most wonderful man I've ever met'. His career, running a successful seafood business has meant she is able to stay at home and care for the couple's children, Archie, Coco and Gus. Gray told Woman's Hour that she spotted the need for her housewifery tips after realising that homemaking skills hadn't been passed down - after she ended up teaching the family au pair basic cooking skills. She said: 'We had au pairs for our children. We had three children under the age of two, and it was crazy so we enlisted an au pair to come and help, and she couldn't even boil an egg. 'So then I found myself with an extra child to teach how to do these things. 'And that's when I realised that practical skills haven't been passed down through the generations like they used to be.' The Trad Wife added: 'Running a home and being a housewife is a very, very busy important role if a wife or husband chooses to do that, and I'm sharing these tips to make life easier.' Reactions to the YouTuber's appearance on the BBC Radio 4 show were mixed, with many suggesting that her social media work is a job, saying: 'All power to her and she looks really interesting and with a clear style but she isn't a "trad wife", she's a successful businesswomen with an interesting premise.' Others agreed that vital practical skills have been lost, with one writing: 'Learning to cook for yourself and run a house is a skill every adult should have housewife or not, I don't think this is controversial. Why are people upset she's teaching people how to bake bread?' Another recounted how she'd cared for her children but faced criticism for the decision, saying: 'I stayed at home with my three children and honestly loved every minute; the backlash from other parents however was not pleasant, but it mostly stemmed from they thought I was rich enough not to work, which wasn't true.' Last week, the most famous Trad Wife of them all, Nara Smith, was criticised by some for glamourising teen pregnancy after posting a controversial TikTok. The 23-year-old, who shares three children with husband Lucky Blue, posted a video celebrating being a young mother. The clip, which showed her hugging her young child in a paddock, was captioned: 'POV: You decided to have kids at 18 and this is your fifth Mother's Day.' Nara rose to fame through TikTok, where she flaunts her 'tradwife' (traditional housewife) lifestyle, baking extravagant meals for her family while seeming to effortlessly care for her young children. While her social media shows a lavish lifestyle, where she wears designer clothing in a beautiful home, many have pointed out very few teen moms can afford the same lifestyle. 'Nara please don't glamorize this. Happy for you but your life at 18 is not most teens realities…,' one response read. 'Reminder to all the 18-year-olds, you do not have Nara Smith money,' read another. 'Girlies at 18 you don't have Nara Smith money so this ain't your sign,' someone else shared. 'No. DO NOT GET INFLUENCED PLEASE. Finish your college. Get a job. Become financially stable,' agreed another.
