SEOUL, May 19 (Xinhua) -- South Korean health authorities confirmed Tuesday that a Vietnamese transit passenger quarantined at a local hospital has been infected with the new type-A influenza virus.
The 22-year-old woman who arrived in South Korea from Seattle, the United States, on Sunday afternoon planned to take a connecting flight to Vietnam, but was held for observation after complaining of high fever, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
"Tests conducted on the woman showed she has been infected with the new flu virus," South Korea's Yonhap News reported citing a KCDC official.
As a precautionary measure, the KCDC is also tracking down the 101 passengers who were aboard the same airplane, the KCDC said.
The woman, whose name has not been released, is the fourth confirmed case of the new flu virus in South Korea. Three cases of the variant A/H1N1 virus were confirmed earlier in the month, and were all released from quarantine after responding well to antiviral drug treatment-snip-
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