A DESPERATE dad is frantically trying to aid his stranded daughter after she was diagnosed with swine flu while on a Greek island holiday.
Alanna Gadsdon spent Thursday night and yesterday stranded in an isolated apartment with no staff, food, water or contact with the outside world.
The 21-year-old and her friends had to walk more than a mile at midnight because they had no other way to find a drink of water.
That was despite their high temperatures and severe illness and strict instructions not to leave the apartment.
Paul Gadsdon, of Uplands Crescent, Fareham, said: 'I'm beside myself. I'm so worried.
'She was diagnosed with a serious illness hundreds of miles from home, and now she's alone with two friends in an abandoned building with no food or water.
'I'm praying she'll be all right.'
Alanna, who lives with dad Paul and mum Rebecca, had been enjoying a Thomas Cook holiday fortnight with two girlfriends in the three-star Canadian Hotel on the sun-kissed island resort of Zante.
But she and one friend began to feel ill and on Tuesday were tested for swine flu.
After a nervous 48-hour wait in their rooms, with meals left and collected outside their door, the results came on Thursday showing Alanna and one friend have the virus.
They were then issued with three days' worth of Tamiflu, then put in a taxi and driven to the abandoned White House apartments miles from anywhere.
Mr Gadsdon said: 'It's terrible.
'I have been on the phone to Thomas Cook for three days to try to get them help.
'They told me the girls were going to be looked after and would be moved somewhere with helpful staff and nurses.
'Instead they were taken by cab to a place of complete isolation. They're in tears, and I don't blame them.'
Mr Gadsdon called the Foreign Office, but has discovered international rules to stop the spread of the virus means even they can't help his daughter.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We can't go and visit a British national diagnosed with swine flu in another country.
'All we can do is contact authorities in each country to make sure our citizens are treated well.
'The only thing we can recommend is to keep calling the British Consulate in Greece, and Thomas Cook.'
Swine Flu hits Zante
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