Three of family isolated with swine flu fears

Kolkata: A family of three from Duliajan in Assam, including a five-year-old girl, was sent to the Beliaghata Infectious Diseases Hospital late on Thursday after it was suspected they were suffering from swine flu.
The girl and her parents landed at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in a Thai Airways flight after spending a vacation in Bangkok. After landing at 12.50 am, they underwent the mandatory medical check-up.
The check-up revealed that they had fever. The child had a runny nose, pain in the joints and slight breathing trouble. As a seven-year-old girl suffering from swine flu had reached Kolkata from Australia via Bangkok on Tuesday, the doctors at the airport took no risk. "Their symptoms prompted us to quarantine them," said A C De, the medical officer at the airport.
At the ID Hospital, the family was kept at an isolation ward. Their throat swabs were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, for tests. The results are expected in two days.
27/06/09 Times of India

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