Friday, May 1, 2009

Japanese Boy Tests Negative for Swine Flu, Health Ministry Says

Update: Tests Negative

Thursday, April 30, 2009
First “probable” case of swine flu registered in Japan
30 April 2009

Tokyo. Japanese health authorities announced first “probable” case of swine flue, AFP informs.
According to the information of health ministry the infected person is 17-year-old boy, who had returned form Canada several days ago and has fu symptoms.
He will be tested and the tests will prove or reject hypothesis he is infected with dangerous virus.
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Posted by Commonground at 7:16 PM


By Gregory Turk

May 1 (Bloomberg) -- A Japanese student tested negative for swine flu, Japan’s Health Ministry said today in a statement.

The 17-year-old high school student was tested after he fell ill with flu-like symptoms following his return from a visit to Canada, where 34 cases have been diagnosed.

The student was diagnosed with seasonal influenza, the ministry said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Gregory Turk in Tokyo at gturk2@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: May 1, 2009 05:40 EDT

1 comment:

Chip said...

thx admin pretty sad this is.

get a load of this scary Report.

http://forecastfortomorrow.com/Files/swineflu.pdf