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Posted: 30-May-2009 03:30 hrs
A security officer wears a mask inside the Sismanoglio hospital in Athens. Health authorities around the world battled Friday to stop the spread of swine flu with schools in Europe closed, while the death toll mounted in Mexico.
"Eleven people who were in close contact with her were given preventive treatment last night and confined to their hotel rooms for 24 hours," said Christian Leyrit, the state representative in the Normandy region.
Leyrit insisted there would be no impact on the D-Day commemorations involving Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on June 6.
Earlier Friday, China's health ministry confirmed the first case of swine flu involving a person infected inside the country.
The ministry said a 24-year-old woman in the southern province of Guangdong had been infected after contact with a virus carrier: a 28-year-old Chinese-American man employed at a hospital in New York.
He had flown to Guangzhou on Sunday.
The woman works as a make-up artist at a photo studio in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, and came into contact with the sufferer who was having wedding photos taken at the studio, it said. — AFP
From TODAYOnline.com; see the source article here.
Posted: 30-May-2009 03:30 hrs
A security officer wears a mask inside the Sismanoglio hospital in Athens. Health authorities around the world battled Friday to stop the spread of swine flu with schools in Europe closed, while the death toll mounted in Mexico. "Eleven people who were in close contact with her were given preventive treatment last night and confined to their hotel rooms for 24 hours," said Christian Leyrit, the state representative in the Normandy region.
Leyrit insisted there would be no impact on the D-Day commemorations involving Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on June 6.
Earlier Friday, China's health ministry confirmed the first case of swine flu involving a person infected inside the country.
The ministry said a 24-year-old woman in the southern province of Guangdong had been infected after contact with a virus carrier: a 28-year-old Chinese-American man employed at a hospital in New York.
He had flown to Guangzhou on Sunday.
The woman works as a make-up artist at a photo studio in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, and came into contact with the sufferer who was having wedding photos taken at the studio, it said. — AFP
From TODAYOnline.com; see the source article here.
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