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.

1 comment:

Subhashish Bose said...

The present outbreak of flu, popularly known as “Swine flu” has a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1, which contains genes that resemble closely to swine influenza. This strain has not been found in pigs and is transmitted from human to human to cause the normal symptoms of influenza.

Tony Smith.
www.aafter.com