UK Detects Its First Human Case Of New Swine Flu Strain, Contacts Tracing Underway

The United Kingdom has detected its first human case of a new strain of Swine flu in a routine flu screening test at a GP surgery in North Yorkshire. The person, infected with a new form of the H1N2 virus, had respiratory symptoms, a mild illness and had fully recovered, reported BBC citing officials.

Now the authorities are trying to trace the contacts of the person and the source of the infection as the person was not known to have worked with pigs, the report added.

According to The Guardian, there have been fifty human cases of the swine flu since 2005 globally. The new strain is the first to be detected in the UK and is unrelated genetically to the previous cases, it added.