A student at Kent University has contracted swine flu.

The female student has mild symptoms of the illness and is staying on the university's Canterbury campus while being monitored by staff from its health centre.

University spokesman Gary Hughes said: "She is taking the advice of medical staff which is to stay in situ in a kind of quarantine.

"She has mild symptoms, but we are taking the necessary precautions.

"I am unable at this time to say how she contracted the illness, but close contacts of this student have been informed and the situation monitored."

The university is is following its flu pandemic contingency plan and working closely with the Health Protection Agency and the NHS.

Information and advice has been given to students and staff of the university, which continues to operate as normal.

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