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| Seven swine flu results negative | Seven swine flu results negative |
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| Seven people have tested negative for swine flu after being in contact with the first Britons to contract the virus, the BBC understands. | Seven people have tested negative for swine flu after being in contact with the first Britons to contract the virus, the BBC understands. |
| The results are still pending on the other two people who had come into contact with Iain and Dawn Askham. | The results are still pending on the other two people who had come into contact with Iain and Dawn Askham. |
| The newly-weds, from Polmont near Falkirk, were the first Britons to be diagnosed with swine flu. | The newly-weds, from Polmont near Falkirk, were the first Britons to be diagnosed with swine flu. |
| There have been three more confirmed cases in the UK - two adults in London and Birmingham and a girl in Devon. | There have been three more confirmed cases in the UK - two adults in London and Birmingham and a girl in Devon. |
| All three of the new confirmed cases had recently travelled from Mexico. | |
| Prime Minister Gordon Brown said they had mild symptoms and were responding well to treatment. | |
| The Askhams were admitted to a Lanarkshire hospital at the weekend after honeymooning in Mexico, and were said to be making a good recovery. | |
| The results of 16 suspected swine flu cases in Scotland are due be revealed later on Wednesday. | The results of 16 suspected swine flu cases in Scotland are due be revealed later on Wednesday. |
| Of these, 14 people have travel links to Mexico or affected parts of the United States, and have shown mild symptoms of the virus. | |
| Pandemic advice | |
| According to NHS 24, helpline centres were taking 20% more calls than usual, with people seeking reassurance and advice. | |
| In the next few days, leaflets with information about swine flu will be sent to every household in the UK. | |
| Organisations are being warned to make their own preparations for a possible pandemic. | |
| Meanwhile, the global outbreak has spread further, with the first death outside Mexico confirmed in the United States. | |
| US health officials revealed that a child had died of swine flu in Texas. | |
| About 160 deaths in Mexico are being linked to the virus, though only a handful of those have been confirmed. | |
| Samples of the new strain of swine flu found in Mexico and the US are being sent to Britain where work will start on analysing the virus. | |
| Leading bacteriologist Professor Hugh Pennington said the test results from Scotland would help answer how transmissible the virus was from person to person. | |
| The World Health Organisation has raised its alert level to four - two steps short of declaring a pandemic. |