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First UK health worker contracts swine flu

Fergus Walsh | 09:18 UK time, Thursday, 4 June 2009

A nurse in Scotland has become the first health worker in the UK to catch swine flu.

The 26-year-old, who works at a Glasgow hospital, had been treating a patient who is now in intensive care with the virus. The details were . The nurse is now recovering at home.

There are now four people, critical but stable with swine flu, in hospitals in Glasgow and Paisley. A 23-year-old woman from Paisley was admitted today. Initially, it was thought that she had no underlying health problems, but Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board later ascertained that this is not the case.

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