With all the international touring artists do, it was only a matter of time before one of them contracted swine flu. Unfortunately for indie singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, that artist is him. The 28-year-old is in quarantine for the next 10 days in his native Sweden.

Lekman revealed the news in a blog post that begins "I picked home one last souvenir from South America, it's called the H1N1 virus. Wrongfully known as the Swineflue." After a short stint South American tour where he performed in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, he was flying home when the symptoms began.

"I was crossing the Atlantic when things started getting really bad, the fever was hallucinogenic and shaking me like a leaf and I grabbed the sleeve of the Air France steward," he writes. "'I'm not feeling well, I should see a doctor' I said and the reply came as a brilliant mix of death anxiety and French rudeness: 'Uh, yes... Terminal D... go there maybe... when we land'. After that the stewards and stewardesses took long detours. A ring of empty seats formed around me. Peoples eyes were kind but determined, they read 'Poor you, I really wish you all the best but if you come near me or my kid I will have to stab you with this plastic fork'. I got up and went to the bathroom where I fainted."

It appears as though the diagnosis hasn't dampened his spirits. "Now I'm in quarantine for ten days," he writes at the end of the post. "I can see the summer through my window and it's just perfect. Summer is always best through a window." So far, none of his upcoming gigs have been cancelled. Get well soon, Jens.