H1N1: Two more test negative, one more suspect

Health authorities have cleared two travellers who exhibited symptoms similar to Influenza A (H1N1) after their tests proved negative, while a third person is being observed.

In the first case in IPOH, a man who recently returned from Thailand turned out to be suffering from a seasonal flu. Results of his blood samples shows he has influenza A (H3) and not A (H1N1).

In KOTA KINABALU, flu symptoms in an elderly Canadian tourist had sent Sabah health authorities into their first alert. The 71-year-old man however tested negative for the virus after being quarantined overnight at a designated isolation centre in Kepayan.

In KUCHING, a Sarawak woman who just returned from Massachusetts in the United States, was admitted to the isolation ward of the Sarawak General Hospital here as a precautionary measure.