UK detects its first human case of swine flu strain

Health officials scramble to trace contacts of person infected with H1N2 strain

• Swine flu in the UK: what we know so far

Health officials are scrambling to trace contacts of a person infected with a new form of swine flu, after the UK detected its first human case of H1N2.

Fifty human cases of the strain have been reported globally since 2005. The new case is the first to be detected in the UK and is unrelated genetically to the previous cases.