Saturday, June 13, 2009

S'pore confirms 6 more H1N1 cases

Singapore confirms 6 more H1N1 cases bringing total to 27 so far

Singapore has confirmed six more H1N1 flu cases. Five of them are children between the ages of three and 15.

Two of them, aged six and seven, are Australian siblings from Melbourne, travelling in a family of five on holiday.

The sixth case is the mother of the three-year-old boy, both of whom are Singaporeans.

The mother and son had gone to Melbourne on holiday on June 3. Another boy, a 12-year-old Singaporean studying in Melbourne returned via Perth on a Tiger Airways flight at 2am on June 8. He later developed symptoms on the evening of June 10.

All travellers had arrived from Melbourne since June 8, except the 15-year-old boy who's a Singaporean studying in the United States.

These cases bring the total number of confirmed cases in Singapore to 27.

More information can be found from Channel Newsasia
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/435615/1/.html

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