School reopens after mystery bug

Classrooms commercially cleaned over weekend and St Marks Church School reopens after unidentified virus caused illness

30 May 2005
St Marks Church School in Wellington reopens this morning after more than a quarter of its pupils were off sick last week, due to an unidentified virus.

It is one of several schools in the region to struck by the illness, which has not yet been identified.

The school's classrooms were commercially cleaned over the weekend to help stop the bug spreading.

Schools across Auckland are also battling a winter virus outbreak and hundreds of students have been stricken.

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