Posted: 24 May 2009 2100 hrs
People wearing masks in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Hong Kong officials on Sunday confirmed a new case of Influenza A (H1N1) flu, raising the city's total number of infections to seven.
The new patient, a 21-year-old student, arrived from the United States via South Korea on Friday night and was being treated in hospital, a spokesman for the Department of Health said.
"She had onset of sore throat on the way to Hong Kong. She developed fever the following morning and was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital in stable condition. She was transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital today," the spokesman said.
Laboratory analysis on her respiratory samples gave positive results for H1N1 flu on Sunday.
"She lives in Tsz Wan Shan with four family members who had been taken to Kwong Wah Hospital for examination. All of them were tested negative for (H1N1) influenza," the spokesman said.
The new case came a day after officials confirmed H1N1 flu in a mainland Chinese man from San Francisco and a Hong Kong woman studying in New York after they were detected by temperature sensors at Hong Kong airport and sent straight to hospital.
Hong Kong's latest cases came nearly three weeks after officials confirmed Asia's first case of the A(H1N1) virus, which sparked a week-long quarantine for around 300 hotel guests and staff in the city.
More than 12,000 cases and 86 deaths have been recorded worldwide since A(H1N1) influenza emerged in Mexico and the United States a month ago. - AFP/ms
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
People wearing masks in Hong KongHONG KONG: Hong Kong officials on Sunday confirmed a new case of Influenza A (H1N1) flu, raising the city's total number of infections to seven.
The new patient, a 21-year-old student, arrived from the United States via South Korea on Friday night and was being treated in hospital, a spokesman for the Department of Health said.
"She had onset of sore throat on the way to Hong Kong. She developed fever the following morning and was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital in stable condition. She was transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital today," the spokesman said.
Laboratory analysis on her respiratory samples gave positive results for H1N1 flu on Sunday.
"She lives in Tsz Wan Shan with four family members who had been taken to Kwong Wah Hospital for examination. All of them were tested negative for (H1N1) influenza," the spokesman said.
The new case came a day after officials confirmed H1N1 flu in a mainland Chinese man from San Francisco and a Hong Kong woman studying in New York after they were detected by temperature sensors at Hong Kong airport and sent straight to hospital.
Hong Kong's latest cases came nearly three weeks after officials confirmed Asia's first case of the A(H1N1) virus, which sparked a week-long quarantine for around 300 hotel guests and staff in the city.
More than 12,000 cases and 86 deaths have been recorded worldwide since A(H1N1) influenza emerged in Mexico and the United States a month ago. - AFP/ms
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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