China says global flu situation worsening: state media

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Flu case leads US Navy to cancel Pacific deployment
The US Navy said Tuesday a warship's crew member became ill with swine flu and 50 others showed symptoms, leading military officials to cancel a scheduled deployment to the South Pacific. "We have one confirmed case. We have also 50 others with flu symptoms" aboard the USS Dubuque, an amphibious transport dock ship stationed in San Diego, California, Navy spokesman Lieutenant Commander John Daniels told AFP. The vessel had been scheduled to deploy on a four-month humanitarian mission in the Southern Pacific to provide military and civic assistance to countries in the region. Because of the A(H1N1) case, "we are using prudent judgment" and canceling the scheduled deployment, Daniels said, noting that the navy was not canceling the mission, called Pacific Partnership. "We are not having the Dubuque on it. So the navy is looking at a range of options," he said, while not excluding the possibility of sending another ship on the mission. The 16,500-ton USS Dubuque usually travels with a crew of 396 sailors, 24 officers, 90 staff and a detachment of 840 US Marines, according to the ship's website. Nine A(H1N1) cases have been confirmed so far among the US armed forces, including five with the navy. All of the people who have been infected are in the United States, according to the Pentagon.

by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) May 6, 2009
China warned Wednesday it faced a growing risk of swine flu infections despite officials elsewhere saying the virus was on the wane, state media reported.

"Chinese medical experts believe the global epidemic situation is still worsening and China has to give continued high attention," Vice Health Minister Zhang Mao told a video conference on the prevention and control of the disease, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

The only confirmed case in China so far has been in the southern territory of Hong Kong but officials in Beijing are taking extreme measures to stop influenza A(H1N1) making its way to the mainland.

A group of Chinese nationals who had been stranded in swine flu-hit Mexico returned home on Wednesday -- and were immediately quarantined, the Shanghai government said.

All 119 passengers and crew on a government-chartered Boeing 777 were isolated after arriving at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, a local government spokesman told AFP.

Zhang was quoted by Xinhua as saying the slowing increase in new cases globally might be due to the active prevention measures most countries have taken.

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As flu fears ease, Mexico gets ready to re-open

Mexico City (AFP) May 6, 2009
Mexico emerged Wednesday from a five-day lockdown, reopening businesses and restaurants shuttered by swine flu, as a second death from the virus was recorded over the border in the United States.

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