Three More Cases of Swine Flu Confirmed in Uk, Says Gordon Brown

Prime minister tells Commons that all three have recently traveled to Mexico and are responding well to treatment

Three more cases of swine flu have been confirmed in the UK, Gordon Brown said today, bringing the total number to five.

The prime minister told the Commons that a 12-year-old girl from Torbay was among the victims, and her school had been temporally closed and all other pupils offered anti-viral medicines.

Brown said the other two new cases were adults, one from Birmingham and one from London. All three had recently traveled to Mexico and had shown mild symptoms and were responding well to treatment, Brown said.

The three new confirmed cases of swine flu come on top of two previously identified in Scotland.

Alan Johnson, the health secretary, is due to make a Commons statement on the matter this evening, Brown said.

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