PARENTS have taken their children from a Merseyside nursery after a teacher returned from a holiday where two friends contracted swine flu.
The staff member flew back from a wedding in Mexico with people who were yesterday confirmed as having the deadly virus.
On Wednesday, she returned to work at Paradise Lane St Peters pre-school, in Formby, symptom-free but was later sent home to receive precautionary anti-viral medication.
Health bosses today insisted there was no risk to the children, aged two to five.
They said the flu, which has a seven-day incubation period, could only be transmitted from person-to-person through coughing and sneezing.
The independently-run nursery has not been closed but concerned parents kept their children at home and wrote letters seeking clarification.
The dad of one four-year-old pupil said: This teacher has known that two of the wedding party had swine-flu symptoms and has spent nine hours on a flight with them.
