Posted: 27 May 2009 1434 hrs
Travellers queue at Singapore's Changi airport immigration counter
SINGAPORE: Singapore's first H1N1 case is a 22-year-old student from the Singapore Management University (SMU).
She is a third-year Business Management student at SMU. She was on its New York Business Study Mission with 19 other students and a faculty member from May 15-24.
SMU said she returned to Singapore on May 26 early morning with the faculty member and another student. She went to see a doctor as she felt unwell during the flight.
She informed the university on May 27 when she found out she was tested positive.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said a fellow student and a professor who travelled with her, along with a friend who met her at the airport and the family maid, have also been quarantined as a precautionary measure.
They will continue to monitor their health and take temperature checks twice daily.
SMU has contacted the remaining 18 students who are still in New York. The students have extended their stay in North America and they have been alerted to go for tests and remain vigilant.
The patient is now recovering in hospital and has not been back on campus since returning from New York. SMU is in close touch with her.
Mr Khaw said: "The doctors told me that she has no other underlying medical conditions so I think like most other patients elsewhere... her recovery should be uneventful, but we will see how things go."
Leo Yee Sin, head of the infectious diseases department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and one of the patient's doctors, said the student was "not extremely ill".
The SMU student passed the thermal scanner at the airport because she was not feverish but consulted a doctor later in the day and was referred to a hospital that handles suspected H1N1 flu cases.
The ministry said she was admitted for tests, which confirmed she was suffering from A(H1N1).
Mr Khaw said the risks of a spread of the virus to others in the city-state was low as the student was isolated within six hours of her arrival. "There really should be no cause for alarm, especially in this case - the patient has been most responsible," Khaw said.
He said officials were now trying to track up to 60 people who had come in close contact with her on the plane, some of whom left the city-state on connecting flights.
The health ministry urged passengers who had travelled in the same flight and were seated in rows 52 to 58 to call the hotline at 1800- 333 9999. - AFP/CNA/vm
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
Travellers queue at Singapore's Changi airport immigration counterSINGAPORE: Singapore's first H1N1 case is a 22-year-old student from the Singapore Management University (SMU).
She is a third-year Business Management student at SMU. She was on its New York Business Study Mission with 19 other students and a faculty member from May 15-24.
SMU said she returned to Singapore on May 26 early morning with the faculty member and another student. She went to see a doctor as she felt unwell during the flight.
She informed the university on May 27 when she found out she was tested positive.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said a fellow student and a professor who travelled with her, along with a friend who met her at the airport and the family maid, have also been quarantined as a precautionary measure.
They will continue to monitor their health and take temperature checks twice daily.
SMU has contacted the remaining 18 students who are still in New York. The students have extended their stay in North America and they have been alerted to go for tests and remain vigilant.
The patient is now recovering in hospital and has not been back on campus since returning from New York. SMU is in close touch with her.
Mr Khaw said: "The doctors told me that she has no other underlying medical conditions so I think like most other patients elsewhere... her recovery should be uneventful, but we will see how things go."
Leo Yee Sin, head of the infectious diseases department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and one of the patient's doctors, said the student was "not extremely ill".
The SMU student passed the thermal scanner at the airport because she was not feverish but consulted a doctor later in the day and was referred to a hospital that handles suspected H1N1 flu cases.
The ministry said she was admitted for tests, which confirmed she was suffering from A(H1N1).
Mr Khaw said the risks of a spread of the virus to others in the city-state was low as the student was isolated within six hours of her arrival. "There really should be no cause for alarm, especially in this case - the patient has been most responsible," Khaw said.
He said officials were now trying to track up to 60 people who had come in close contact with her on the plane, some of whom left the city-state on connecting flights.
The health ministry urged passengers who had travelled in the same flight and were seated in rows 52 to 58 to call the hotline at 1800- 333 9999. - AFP/CNA/vm
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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