MSP has swine flu
CLYDESDALE MSP Karen Gillon has become the first member of the Scottish Parliament to contract swine flu.
The veteran Labour MSP missed the crucial vote yesterday on justice secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to release the Lockerbie bomber, because she had been laid low by the virus.
A Labour Party spokesman said Ms Gillon was feeling unwell.
News of her condition comes amid concern that the H1N1 virus may start to spread rapidly again now that children are returning to school.
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon is due to make a statement in parliament today on the latest situation with swine flu.
Last week, she said flu-related calls to NHS 24 had declined to broadly seasonal averages, but that the Scottish Government was working on the basis that infection levels would rise again in the autumn.
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