MONTREAL - Hospital officials and Quebec's health ministry are refusing to comment on media reports that two Montrealers are under quarantine at a local hospital after vacationing in Mexico.
Lakeshore General Hospital spokesman Louis-Pascal Cyr told CTV News today that the two patients were in isolation for further investigation as a precaution after returning from Mexico two weeks ago.
But a spokeswoman for the ministry said today that there had been no confirmed or suspected cases of the swine flu in the province.
She says, however, that any travellers returning from Mexico showing flu-like symptoms will be flagged by health officials.
Mexican authorities are on high-alert as they try to stem a deadly outbreak of the virus that has been linked to 68 deaths in that country.
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