Hong Kong reports domestic human swine flu case

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Hong Kong health authorities on Wednesday reported that the territory's first human case of swine flu, in which the person had the virus in the city. Thomas Tsang, controller of the Center for Health, said the patient, a 55-year old man, had the A (H1N1) virus at an event, the other known swine flu patients had. "He had no travel history during the incubation period. We find he had been at the same cocktail party function as the confirmed case on June 5," Tsang told reporters. Tsang said the man had not traveled outside the city in the previous month. There, 49 confirmed human cases of swine influenza infection in Hong Kong, but also the earlier cases caught the virus while traveling abroad. In another case, Tsang said that a 16-year-old high school student had a positive result in initial tests for swine flu. Another 11 of the girls' classmates were also displaying flu-like symptoms and officials had advised the school to provide for two weeks, said Tsang. The recent cases were more than a month after Asia Hong Kong officials confirmed the first case of A (H1N1)-virus, which sparks week quarantine of some 300 guests and staff at a hotel. The city is very nervous about infectious diseases after the outbreak of the SARS virus in 2003, which killed 300 people here and 800 carriers worldwide after a spread of the disease in a hotel in Hong Kong. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, human swine flu has infected more than 26,000 people in 73 countries around the world, killing 140 people, mainly in Mexico and North America. WHO Deputy Director-General Keiji Fukuda said Tuesday, the WHO was on the verge of declaring an official swine flu pandemic, say they are working to prepare these countries to increase their memory at the highest level. On Tuesday, Chinese state media said the country now has taken over 100 confirmed cases of swine flu, during the Lebanon, Egypt and Italy reported fresh infections. Comments Please login to post comments or replies.