A Norwegian kindergarten teacher who brought a vial of her own blood to class and allowed children to taste it has been fired.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The teacher, whose identity has not been published, brought the blood into her classroom and poured it onto a plate for her students to examine, Reuters reports.

The children, aged between three and six, touched the blood with their fingers and then asked the teacher how they could get it off, the school's principal Lise Soemme Andersen said on Friday (local time).

"So she put her finger in her mouth and the children followed suit," Ms Soemme Andersen said.Parents of the children were reportedly "mortified, shaken and shocked," by news of the incident.

The teacher has been tested for HIV and Hepatitis B but the results have not yet come back.

The risk of infection is believed to be very low.

[link to news.ninemsn.com.au]