Swine flu confirmed at Scottish hospital

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Swine flu confirmed at Scottish hospital



Deputy First Minister & Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon, confirms that two people in Scotland have tested positive for swine flu, during a press conference at St Andrews House in Edinburgh

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Published Date: 28 April 2009
By Lyndsay Moss, Hamish Macdonell and David Maddox
THE UK's first cases of swine flu were confirmed in Scotland yesterday, as countries around the world took dramatic action to try to contain the rising tide of infection.
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon said two people, a man and a woman who are being kept in isolation at a hospital in Lanarkshire, had tested positive for swine flu, while a further seven people who had been in contact with them were experiencing symptoms and undergoing tests.

The news emerged shortly before the World Health Organisation (WHO) moved a step closer to declaring the world's first flu pandemic since 1968, raising the global alert over swine flu from three to four.

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Swine-flu-confirmed-at-Scottish.5210861.jp

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