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Suspected Scots flu cases hits 32 Suspected Scots flu cases at 32
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The number of suspected swine flu cases in Scotland now stands at 32, the Scottish Government has confirmed.The number of suspected swine flu cases in Scotland now stands at 32, the Scottish Government has confirmed.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said tests in 15 other cases had returned negative results for the virus.Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said tests in 15 other cases had returned negative results for the virus.
She told MSPs the total number included 24 new suspected cases, all of them people with travel connections to Mexico or other affected areas.She told MSPs the total number included 24 new suspected cases, all of them people with travel connections to Mexico or other affected areas.
Ms Sturgeon stressed the risk to the public was "low" and officials were working hard to keep it that way.Ms Sturgeon stressed the risk to the public was "low" and officials were working hard to keep it that way.
Iain and Dawn Askham, the newly-weds from Polmont near Falkirk, were the first Britons to be diagnosed with swine flu.Iain and Dawn Askham, the newly-weds from Polmont near Falkirk, were the first Britons to be diagnosed with swine flu.
Ms Sturgeon said they were continuing to recover in hospital, adding that eight of the nine people who had been in close contact with the couple and had displayed mild symptoms had tested negative for swine flu. The test results suggest that, to date, as far as we know, we have managed to prevent the spread of infection within Scotland Nicola SturgeonScottish health secretary
Suspected cases have now been investigated in the Forth Valley, Grampian, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Tayside, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran and Highland health board areas.
Ms Sturgeon said the Askham's were continuing to recover in hospital, adding that eight of the nine people who had been in close contact with the couple and had displayed mild symptoms had tested negative for swine flu.
Test results in the ninth case are still outstanding.Test results in the ninth case are still outstanding.
Ms Sturgeon said: "The test results suggest that, to date, as far as we know, we have managed to prevent the spread of infection within Scotland.Ms Sturgeon said: "The test results suggest that, to date, as far as we know, we have managed to prevent the spread of infection within Scotland.
"That, at this stage, is encouraging.""That, at this stage, is encouraging."
Parliament was told that, of the 14 cases under consideration reported on Tuesday, one had now been identified as a close contact of the Askhams.
The rest were people who travelled from Mexico or other affected areas.
Ms Sturgeon said five of those cases had also tested negative for influenza, while two had been "declassified" as cases which were no longer suspect.
The results in seven of the cases - including the contact - remain outstanding.
The further 24 suspected cases - under investigation as of 1000 BST on Wednesday - surfaced in the Ayrshire and Arran, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Grampian, Lanarkshire, Highland and Lothian health board areas.