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Asia's first swine-flu case confirmed in Hong Kong (1st Lead)Health NewsMay 1, 2009, 14:04 GMT < ="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js" =text/> < = ="http://www.monstersandcritics.com//pagebreak.js"> '; var PageContent= ' Hong Kong - Asia\'s first case of swine flu has been confirmed in Hong Kong, the territory\'s leader, Donald Tsang, announced Friday. The patient is a visitor from Mexico, the worst-hit country in the swine-flu outbreak, who travelled to Hong Kong from Shanghai Thursday and was staying at a hotel in the city\'s Wan Chai district. The patient has been taken to the city\'s Ruttonjee Hospital and was in stable condition Friday evening, Chief Executive Tsang said at a press briefing Friday night. The hotel where the patient was staying, the Metropark, has been quarantined with all guests barred from leaving, reporters were told. Guests staying at the hotel told the government-run radio station RTHK that no one was being allowed to leave or enter the hotel. Tsang announced the case after a meeting of top government officials was convened Friday afternoon in response to news of the confirmed case. The Hong Kong leader appealed to the public not to panic and said everything would be done to prevent the virus from spreading in the city of 7 million. Hong Kong has raised its swine-flu alert level from \'serious\' to \'emergency\' in response to the confirmation of the case. Details of the heightened measures were due to be announced later. Schools were to remain open and public gatherings and exhibitions were to continue as normal but under more stringent hygiene measures, Tsang said in advance of the details being released. News of the case came after Tsang warned earlier this week that Hong Kong was at a greater risk of a swine-flu outbreak because it is one of the world\'s most densely populated cities. Before Hong Kong\'s announcement of its case, the World Health Organization said Friday that 331 human cases of swine flu have been reported in 11 countries. Ten cases have been fatal - nine in Mexico and one in the United States. Ironically, the first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in Hong Kong in 2003 was traced back to a patient from China staying in another hotel in the city. A total of 299 people died and about 1,800 were infected with the SARS virus in the city of 7 million, and the virus spread from Hong Kong around the world.  ';
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Hong Kong - Asia's first case of swine flu has been confirmed in Hong Kong, the territory's leader, Donald Tsang, announced Friday. The patient is a visitor from Mexico, the worst-hit country in the swine-flu outbreak, who travelled to Hong Kong from Shanghai Thursday and was staying at a hotel in the city's Wan Chai district. The patient has been taken to the city's Ruttonjee Hospital and was in stable condition Friday evening, Chief Executive Tsang said at a press briefing Friday night. The hotel where the patient was staying, the Metropark, has been quarantined with all guests barred from leaving, reporters were told. Guests staying at the hotel told the government-run radio station RTHK that no one was being allowed to leave or enter the hotel. Tsang announced the case after a meeting of top government officials was convened Friday afternoon in response to news of the confirmed case. The Hong Kong leader appealed to the public not to panic and said everything would be done to prevent the virus from spreading in the city of 7 million. Hong Kong has raised its swine-flu alert level from 'serious' to 'emergency' in response to the confirmation of the case. Details of the heightened measures were due to be announced later. Schools were to remain open and public gatherings and exhibitions were to continue as normal but under more stringent hygiene measures, Tsang said in advance of the details being released. News of the case came after Tsang warned earlier this week that Hong Kong was at a greater risk of a swine-flu outbreak because it is one of the world's most densely populated cities. Before Hong Kong's announcement of its case, the World Health Organization said Friday that 331 human cases of swine flu have been reported in 11 countries. Ten cases have been fatal - nine in Mexico and one in the United States. Ironically, the first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in Hong Kong in 2003 was traced back to a patient from China staying in another hotel in the city. A total of 299 people died and about 1,800 were infected with the SARS virus in the city of 7 million, and the virus spread from Hong Kong around the world. Read more: "Asia's first swine-flu case confirmed in Hong Kong (1st Lead) - Monsters and Critics" - http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1474429.php/Asias_first_swine-flu_case_confirmed_in_Hong_Kong__1st_Lead__#ixzz0EGWj4A41&A |
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 7:57am |
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Lori, this would lead one to consider that those behind the scenes may be more informed on the nature of this virus as well as the prognosis of it become a dangerous Pandemic. China has been extremely aggressive in their statements and also in their preparations. This is comng to be more serious by the day.
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 8:19am |
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The question is when did he come back and how long did he stayed in Mexico?
What about transit stop in Shanghai, flight from Mexico, and the airports? The normal flu is most contagious before onset of the symptoms. I am trying to pin down the incubations period, the longer it is the more dangerous the wide spread the outbreak. Personally I think the ones that get sick with this flu today are luckier than the ones that get sick later in the second and third ways. They will get first rate medical help plus they will have some immunity for the next second wave outbreak. |
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Hong Kong to Quarantine 300 at Hotel for Week After Flu Confirmedhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB124119134084477477.html?mod=googlenews_wsjBy PETER STEIN and JONATHAN CHENGHONG KONG -- Hong Kong's government said that approximately 300 guests and staff of a hotel in the territory would be quarantined for seven days after a guest was found to have the A/H1N1 flu virus. The extreme move comes after Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Friday that lab tests confirmed a visitor from Mexico who arrived on a China Eastern Airlines flight from Shanghai had the disease. Hong Kong's case marks the first official appearance of A/H1N1 in East Asia. The patient was staying at the Metropark Hotel in Wanchai, which is owned by a local subsidiary of China Travel Service. Friday evening, police were outside the hotel preventing people from entering or leaving. Guests at the hotel are free to move within the hotel, but can't leave and are being encouraged to stay in their rooms and minimize contact with others, the government spokesman said. They will be given preventative doses of Tamiflu. The patient himself is being kept in isolation at a hospital. Hong Kong's Secretary for Food and Health, York Chow, said that three people who have been in close contact with the patient are also being separately quarantined. Tsang said Friday that he would rather err on the side of overcaution than let the disease spread. The move to impose a quarantine reflects Hong Kong's experience coping with an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2003, which made 1,755 people fall ill and killed 299 in the territory. The disease's spread was in part traced back to a single infected guest at the Metropole Hotel in Kowloon. "This transmission would have happened sooner or later, because the pandemic has already started," said Yi Guan, a microbiologist at Hong Kong University. ""There's nothing surprising, the only thing we can do at this moment is to minimize the impact." Guan said Hong Kong's system was "much improved from six years ago" during the SARS outbreak. He noted that there are isolation wards in place in Hong Kong hospitals, and the government is doing a good job of communication and coordination. A large number of people are expected to be traveling this May 1 Labor Day weekend in both Hong Kong and China. Write to Peter Stein at peter.stein@wsj.com and Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com Copyright 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit More In World
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