Highly Suspected Swine Flu Patient on Melbourne-Outbound CA178 Flight

[Simon L.]

It has been reported by several Chinese media outlets that a 30-year-old Chinese national who was travelling on May 23's Air China flight CA178 from Melbourne to Beijing via Shanghai is now a highly suspected swine flu patient after he was put under isolation upon arrival in Shanghai and is now receiving hospital treatment.

Chinese authorities are now urging passengers on that flight to contact public health agencies - more info please visit http://en.carnoc.com/list/10/10677.html.

At this stage, although the case is still being listed as a "highly suspected", but some reports I received suggest that it's already "clinical confirmed" (after several preliminary lab tests), but the authorities are just waiting for the final lab confirmation and approval by China's Ministry of Health for its official status to be changed to "officially confirmed". Once confirmed, I believe this will be the first swine flu case "exported" from Australia to other nations.

Regards.