Posted: 29 May 2009 1641 hrs
A mother puts a face mask on her daughter as they visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing.BEIJING - China's health ministry confirmed Friday the first case of Influenza A (H1N1) involving a person infected with the virus inside the country.
In an earlier statement, the ministry had identified the patient as a 24-year-old woman in the southern province of Guangdong who had been in close contact with a confirmed carrier of the A(H1N1) virus.
The woman works as a make-up artist at a photo studio in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, and came in contact with the confirmed case when he and his girlfriend had wedding photos taken Monday and Tuesday, it said.
On Wednesday, she developed a headache and a fever, and after she was hospitalised, Guangzhou health officials identified her as a suspected A(H1N1) flu case before confirming it.
The health ministry said the man she came into contact with was a 28-year-old Chinese-American employed at a hospital in New York, who had flown to Guangzhou Sunday.
Two other suspect cases in Shenzhen, a city near Hong Kong, had also been confirmed, the health ministry said.
- AFP/ir
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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