Pembrokeshire County Council has confirmed that a member of staff at Pembroke School has become ill with flu-like symptoms and is currently resting at home.

Until last week, the National Public Health Service had been laboratory testing everyone who had potentially come into contact with swine flu and who had symptoms.

However, now that the UK as a whole is moving into a position where swine flu is circulating freely in the community, fewer people will be tested as patient's doctors will assume that anyone with flu-like symptoms has contracted swine flu.

Pembroke School's headteacher Frank Ciccotti will be writing to all parents of pupils at the school. The letter will be delivered to them via their children and will also be posted on the website.

It will reinforce the advice from the National Public Health Service for Wales that healthy people showing no flu-like symptoms should continue to attend school. The school remains open.

Healthy people with flu-like symptoms or respiratory illness are being advised to stay at home, check their symptoms on the NHS Direct Wales website and, if they are still concerned, phone their GP. They should not go to their local surgery or A&E in case they spread the virus to others, especially at-risk groups.

Evidence so far suggests that the majority of patients have had relatively mild symptoms and with rest recover within five to seven days.

If you have flu-like symptoms, stay at home. You can check your symptoms by calling the Swine Flu Information Line on 0800 1 513 513. If you are still concerned contact NHS Direct Wales on 0845 4647. Do not go into your GP surgery or Accident and Emergency department unless you are advised to do so or are seriously ill, as you may spread the illness to others.