More Carlsbad students return home from China

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By Brian Flores FOX 5 San Diego Staff

June 23, 2009

CARLSBAD, Calif.,—

It's a third celebration for Pacific Ridge students, faculty, and parents, as another group of students and a teacher, quarantined because of possible swine flu stemming from a trip to China, returned home Tuesday night. Three students and one teacher arrived on a chartered bus from Los Angelest International Airport to the school, at just past 7:30 p.m. A large group from the school, held up signs and cheered as the group returned home from a trip that started on June 2nd. On Saturday night, and early Sunday morning, about 30 students were part of the first grooups to return home. Teacher Peyton Bray served as chaperone on the trip. He said that he suffered food poisoning, but also had flu-like symptoms. He tested negative for the H1N1 virus, and said Chinese health officials were helpful. "They did everything they could to take care of us. They did a wonderful job of caring for us, of working to make sure we were on the best health possible," he said.

School officials said that two students and two teachers remain in China. School officials said that one student tested negative for swine flu, while they are awaiting results from the second student. Head of Pacific Ridge School, Eilleen Mullady said that one teacher also tested negative for the swine flu. She also said that a teacher , not part of the original group, was also sent to China at about 1 a.m. Tuesday morning to help the group come home. "So all but four of the community is home, and we're hoping by Friday or Saturday, we're all in," she said.

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