A newlywed couple who became the UK's first confirmed cases of swine flu have told how they believed they caught the virus on their flight back to Britain.
Iain and Dawn Askham, from Polmont, near Falkirk, were diagnosed with the disease after returning from their honeymoon in Mexico.
Meanwhile, tests are continuing to determine whether an unnamed man from the Forth Valley who was in close contact with the Askhams had contracted the disease - which would make him the first person-to-person case in the UK.
The man, who is from the Forth Valley health board area, is described as a "probable" case of swine flu.
Mr and Mrs Askham, who had to spend five days in isolation rooms in a Scottish hospital, told the Daily Record newspaper that five men sitting close to them on their flight from Cancun to Birmingham had been coughing and sneezing throughout the journey home.
Mr Askham, 27, an IT worker, said: "I actually said to Dawn 'I think we're going to be getting off this plane with the plague'."
He added: "Most people go to Mexico and come back with a few bottles of tequila but then we go and come back with this flu thing. I just couldn't believe our luck."
Mrs Askham, 25, who works as a dispenser in Boots, said: "The men appeared to be sweating and in a fever and were clearly ill - all of them."
Mr and Mrs Askham, from Polmont near Falkirk, arrived home from their honeymoon on April 21, but did not begin feeling ill until the end of the week. They said they had been unaware there was swine flu in Mexico, until their parents told them about it at the weekend.
After contacting the NHS's out-of-hours medical service they were taken into isolation at Monklands Hospital in Lanarkshire, where they were put in separate rooms. They have since been given the all-clear and returned home.
