Sunday, April 26, 2009

Swine flu: false steward for British Airways

26 avril 2009

LONDON - A steward of the airline British Airways, hospitalized Saturday in London on his return from Mexico City to symptoms resembling those of influenza, has not contracted the fever, swine, announced Sunday morning, a spokesman for the Northwick Park Hospital.

"I can confirm that he is not swine fever. All tests came back negative," said this source.

A spokesperson for BA stated Saturday that the steward had made the connecting flight BA242 Mexico arrived at Heathrow that day in London at 13.00 GMT.

The Agency for Health Protection (HPA) has stressed that this examination as a precaution ", adding that at this stage there were no confirmed cases of person with the flu swine in Great Britain as well as in the rest of Europe.

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