A nurse in Scotland has caught the A (H1N1) virus from a patient, it has been confirmed.
The 26-year-old is a staff nurse from the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, who cared for a 38-year-old woman currently in intensive care who has underlying health problems.
As a result of this, hospital staff are now being asked to treat anyone with symptoms of diseases like pneumonia as a confirmed case until they are proven negative.
There are now 459 confirmed cases in the UK and latest figures from the World Health Organisation show that 69 countries have officially reported 21,971 cases of the influenza infection, including 125 deaths.