Holidaymaker first European victim of deadly virus

A BRITISH holidaymaker remained in a coma yesterday after becoming the first suspected European victim of a deadly virus.

Michael Nicholson, from Livingston in West Lothian, has contracted the little-known “Triple E” bug after being bitten by a mosquito in the US, his family said. It is thought the 35-year-old painter and decorator was bitten during a fishing trip in New Hampshire this summer.

Relatives said Mr Nicholson is unconscious in an Edinburgh hospital and, if he lives, is expected to be severely disabled for the rest of his life.