Japan confirmed its first three swine flu cases Saturday. The two teenage boys and a teacher arrived at Tokyo's Narita International Airport on a flight from Detroit after visiting Canada on a school trip, Health and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe said in a televised news conference. The three tested positive for swine flu at Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Forty-nine other passengers who returned to Japan on the same flight and sat near the patients have been taken to a facility near the airport, where they will be monitored for 10 days.
In India, health authorities isolated two men at a hospital in New Delhi after they arrived on separate flights from abroad. One of India's suspected cases arrived on a flight from London overnight while the other traveled from Texas on April 19. If confirmed they will be India's first cases of A(H1N1), the virus linked to swine flu, in a country of more than 1.1 billion people.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand the number of suspected cases there had dropped, the health ministry said, adding that there was no evidence of swine flu spreading in the country. New Zealand reported four confirmed cases after a school party returned from Mexico earlier this week on a flight from Los Angeles that landed in Auckland last Saturday. However, Radio New Zealand quoted the ministry's national coordinator for pandemic planning, Steve Brazier, as saying "no swine flu is circulating in the community at present, that we've seen."
In India, health authorities isolated two men at a hospital in New Delhi after they arrived on separate flights from abroad. One of India's suspected cases arrived on a flight from London overnight while the other traveled from Texas on April 19. If confirmed they will be India's first cases of A(H1N1), the virus linked to swine flu, in a country of more than 1.1 billion people.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand the number of suspected cases there had dropped, the health ministry said, adding that there was no evidence of swine flu spreading in the country. New Zealand reported four confirmed cases after a school party returned from Mexico earlier this week on a flight from Los Angeles that landed in Auckland last Saturday. However, Radio New Zealand quoted the ministry's national coordinator for pandemic planning, Steve Brazier, as saying "no swine flu is circulating in the community at present, that we've seen."
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