Posted: 24 May 2009 1843 hrs
A passenger wearing a mask checks his mobile phone at the departure hall of the Beijing Capital International Airport
BEIJING: A 21-month-old Chinese baby was confirmed as China's eighth case of Influenza A (H1N1) flu on Sunday, just as another suspected case of A(H1N1) influenza emerged in the east of the country, the health ministry said.
The baby girl flew with her parents to Fuzhou, capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, from New York via Hong Kong on May 20, the ministry reported on its website.
Her parents and the taxi driver who picked them up at the airport were under medical observation, and of the 38 people who were near her in the plane from Hong Kong, 30 had already been found and the other eight had left the country.
The girl developed a high fever on May 21 and was quarantined in hospital, the ministry said. She was now in a stable condition and her temperature had returned to normal.
Meanwhile, a 19-year-old boy in Zhejiang province who flew from New York to Wenzhou city via Shanghai on May 22 was reported as a suspected case.
The boy, who was not identified, fell ill on the day he arrived in Wenzhou and went to the hospital on May 23, but was currently showing signs of recovery.
More than 12,000 H1N1 flu infections and 86 deaths have been confirmed worldwide, according to the most recent World Health Organisation statistics. - AFP/ms
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
A passenger wearing a mask checks his mobile phone at the departure hall of the Beijing Capital International AirportBEIJING: A 21-month-old Chinese baby was confirmed as China's eighth case of Influenza A (H1N1) flu on Sunday, just as another suspected case of A(H1N1) influenza emerged in the east of the country, the health ministry said.
The baby girl flew with her parents to Fuzhou, capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, from New York via Hong Kong on May 20, the ministry reported on its website.
Her parents and the taxi driver who picked them up at the airport were under medical observation, and of the 38 people who were near her in the plane from Hong Kong, 30 had already been found and the other eight had left the country.
The girl developed a high fever on May 21 and was quarantined in hospital, the ministry said. She was now in a stable condition and her temperature had returned to normal.
Meanwhile, a 19-year-old boy in Zhejiang province who flew from New York to Wenzhou city via Shanghai on May 22 was reported as a suspected case.
The boy, who was not identified, fell ill on the day he arrived in Wenzhou and went to the hospital on May 23, but was currently showing signs of recovery.
More than 12,000 H1N1 flu infections and 86 deaths have been confirmed worldwide, according to the most recent World Health Organisation statistics. - AFP/ms
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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