AN AMERICAN family of five were diagnosed with swine flu during a visit to Oxfordshire, it has been revealed.

Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust confirmed that the couple, aged 37 and 35, and their children, aged two, four and six, tested positive for the influenza A, HN1N1 virus.

A spokesman for the trust said: “The family of five were visiting the UK from the USA and as such none of the children attended schools in Oxfordshire.

“The family had mild illness and are now fully recovered.

“All contacts have been traced and are being treated with Tamiflu.”

She said the family had returned to the USA but would not say when they were diagnosed or when they left the country.

Three cases of swine flu have previously been confirmed in Oxford, a six-year-old girl who is a pupil at Sandhills Primary School, a two-year-old boy and a 29-year-old woman.

The toddler was linked to the 29-year-old woman, who had recently been to the USA, and was the youngest person in England to be diagnosed with the disease.

The spokesman said: “Both have recovered and are well.”

By yesterday, 246 people in the UK had been confirmed as having swine flu.

Eton College is closed until June 7 after four pupils there were diagnosed with the illness.

Ninety-seven people have died as a result of contracting the virus in Mexico and it has been linked to more than 100 deaths worldwide.