Students in swine flu quarantine

Nine students have been quarantined and classes have been suspended at an Oxford college after a female student was diagnosed with swine flu.

Oxford Media and Business School said the student was diagnosed on Wednesday but had not attended college all week.

She shares a house with four other students who had no symptoms but were given anti-viral drugs as a precaution.

A second student household was also given Tamiflu drugs after hosting a visitor now confirmed with swine flu.

College principal Andrea Freeman said the student confirmed with swine flu was responding well to treatment.

She had been in daily contact with all the students in the affected houses, who have also been advised by health officials to stay at home.

The students were British females, aged between 19 and 23, and were due to graduate on Wednesday, she said.

The college has 52 students and Ms Freeman said all classes had been cancelled until Monday.