Sixty-two people linked to Crown Hills Community College in Leicester were found to be infected. Nearly 100 other pupils were given antibiotics. The BBC One's Watchdog Healthcheck programme on Monday reveals the boy's true condition was missed for ten months. Agreed guidelines followed' Dr Philip Monk, the Head of Communicable Diseases in Leicestershire said. In Leicestershire there are 25,000 children who will have asthma.
Common things are common.
If there are no other risk factors you manage cases as though they are asthma. That is an agreed protocol and guideline. He accepted that if the case had been diagnosed earlier, fewer children would have been affected. He said doctors and patients in Leicestershire have become more aware of the disease since the outbreak.