Posted: 25 May 2009 0926 hrs
A mother puts a face mask on her daughter as they visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
BEIJING: Chinese health authorities on Sunday confirmed the country's eighth and ninth cases of Influenza A (H1N1), in a toddler and a 46-year-old man who had recently returned from the United States and Canada.
The baby girl arrived with her parents in Fuzhou, the capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, from New York via Hong Kong on Wednesday, the health 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 on 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 Thursday and was quarantined in hospital, the ministry said. She was now in a stable condition and her temperature had returned to normal.
Xinhua news agency meanwhile reported that a 46-year-old man had tested positive for A(H1N1) flu and was being treated in Beijing after returning from a trip to Toronto in Canada on Thursday.
It quoted Beijing health officials as saying the man was in stable condition.
Two other people -- a 19-year-old man in Zhejiang province and a 30-year-old man in Shanghai -- were being treated as suspected cases, according to the health ministry.
China has yet to report a fatal case of H1N1 flu.
The total number of A(H1N1) flu cases worldwide now exceeds 12,000, including 86 deaths.
- AFP/ir
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
A mother puts a face mask on her daughter as they visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing.BEIJING: Chinese health authorities on Sunday confirmed the country's eighth and ninth cases of Influenza A (H1N1), in a toddler and a 46-year-old man who had recently returned from the United States and Canada.
The baby girl arrived with her parents in Fuzhou, the capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, from New York via Hong Kong on Wednesday, the health 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 on 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 Thursday and was quarantined in hospital, the ministry said. She was now in a stable condition and her temperature had returned to normal.
Xinhua news agency meanwhile reported that a 46-year-old man had tested positive for A(H1N1) flu and was being treated in Beijing after returning from a trip to Toronto in Canada on Thursday.
It quoted Beijing health officials as saying the man was in stable condition.
Two other people -- a 19-year-old man in Zhejiang province and a 30-year-old man in Shanghai -- were being treated as suspected cases, according to the health ministry.
China has yet to report a fatal case of H1N1 flu.
The total number of A(H1N1) flu cases worldwide now exceeds 12,000, including 86 deaths.
- AFP/ir
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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