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Title: British Airways Cabin Crew Taken To Hospital With Suspected Swine Flu
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Herald Sun AU
URL Source: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25388108-663,00.html
Published: Apr 25, 2009
Author: Herald Sun AU
Post Date: 2009-04-25 21:14:56 by Brian S
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Views: 147
Comments: 3
BRITISH health authorities have been placed on alert after a member of a British Airways cabin crew was taken to hospital with suspected swine flu after becoming sick on a return flight from Mexico. In the first suspected case of its kind found in Europe, the unnamed man was working on flight BA242 when he became ill shortly before landing at Heathrow Airport in London at 2pm local time yesterday. He had been in Mexico City. "He has flu-like symptoms and is responding well to treatment," a spokesman for Northwick Park Hospital where the man is being treated in an isolation unit. "The patient was admitted directly to a side room and the hospital is scrupulously following infection control procedures to ensure there is no risk to any other individual in the hospital." A Health Protection Agency (HPA) spokesman said the patient was being tested and late last night an infection of swine flu was still not confirmed. HPA doctors at all Heathrow Airport terminals have been put on alert to report any other flu like symptoms with passengers, particularly coming in from Mexico. The World Health Organisation director-general Margaret Chan said every nation in the world should be concerned and on alert and the spread could become a pandemic. The global health body advised nations around the world to look out for similar outbreaks following the discovery of related strains on both sides of the border between Mexico and the US. A number of airports worldwide are as a precaution testing passengers who are returning home from visits to Mexico. Swine flu has similar symptoms to the more common, human seasonal form of influenza. It is one of a number of viruses that cause illness among people and animals, causing respiratory problems, fever and fatigue.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Didn't the flu kill more in 1919? than WWI? By far?
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#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: IndieTX (#2)
Those of you who still chose, or have to fly -
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