The wife of the ex-Prime Minister of Britain Tony Blair, perhaps, picked up a pork flu

The wife of the ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair Sheri, perhaps, fell ill with the flu A/H1N1 ("Pork flu"). According to the Air Force , Sheri, who leads professional legal activity under the maiden name of But, due to malaise with suspicion of flu A/H1N1 on Thursday, canceled her participation in the ceremony at the University of her native Liverpool.

The university was preparing to celebrate the honorary degree of a doctor of legal sciences the merit of the ex-Prime Minister for her activities in the field of human rights and the support that she provides for the educational institution. It is still unknown whether her husband and four children could become infected with the virus, RIA Novosti notes.

According to British doctors, several tens of thousands of people have already become carriers of influenza A/H1N1. In at least seventeen cases, the disease led to death. As a result of Great Britain, she went to third place after the United States and Mexico in the number of patients with this type of influenza.

At the same time, the authorities are particularly alarming by the exclusively aggressive behavior of the virus: 27 thousand new cases of influenza, similar in their symptoms to A/H1N1, are recorded in the UK.