16 flu-suspect flyers traced, quarantined

India has put on home quarantine 16 people who had recently travelled from San Francisco to Hong Kong in a flight that also carried an H1N1 swine flu infected passenger.
TOI had first reported how China had informed India on Wednesday about these suspected passengers, most of whom were from Tamil Nadu.
According to the Union health ministry, all 16 suspected passengers have been traced and state governments have been told to put them on home quarantine for the next one week.
During this time, the health condition of these 16 people and their close contacts will be observed. In case they show any symptoms of H1N1 influenza infection, like cough, cold, upper respiratory tract infection and fever, their throat samples will be picked up and sent to National Institute of Virology (Pune) and National Institute of Communicable Diseases (Delhi) for testing.
Tamil Nadu's directorate of public health has put six people, including four women and a child, on residential quarantine for a week. While four of the passengers are now staying in Choolaimedu, the other two reside in Madipakkam and Aynavaram. None of them have shown any clinical symptoms of a H1N1 swine flu infection. Details of the other 10 passengers were not revealed.
16/05/09 Pushpa Narayan & Kounteya Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Foreign May 2009, Indian Aviation- In General May 2009