Forty British children - some as young as four - were marched off by armed airport guards as they landed for half-term holidays in Egypt because they were thought to have swine flu.
Horrified parents watched as officials used draconian legislation to hold anyone with a temperature of more than 38C. Some children were kept apart from their parents for five days in a squalid makeshift hospital - even though they had no symptoms of the H1N1 virus.