Indonesia reports first Influenza A/H1N1 suspect

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JAKARTA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- An Indonesian doctor
disclosed Wednesday that an A/H1N1 flu suspect is currently treated in a
hospital in Surabaya, the capital of Indonesia's East Java province.

This is the first suspected case of A/H1N1 flu in
Indonesia and in Southeast Asia, a report the Elshinta radio said on Wednesday.

The Dr. Soetomo hospital in Surabaya is treating a
A/H1N1 flu suspect, the radio quoted Harko Hari Santosa, a doctor working in the
hospital, as saying.

At the present, Harko said, the suspect patient is
isolated in a particular isolation room in the hospital.

Without disclosing the patient's arrival date, Harko
said the patient had just arrived in Surabaya from Hong Kong. When the patient
arrived at the airport in Surabaya the thermal scanner spotted his high
temperature.

However, the hospital has yet to confirm whether it
was a A/H1N1 flu case, he added.

Swine flu scare: Spanish man locked in prisoners' ward

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BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhuanet) -- A Spaniard suspected of having swine flu was quarantined in a prisoners ward after the doctor learned he was on a holiday in Mexico.

The man had gone to the hospital to complain of a
rash. He was confined for three days and warned that if he tried to leave he
could face legal action under rules to control epidemics, Spanish newspaper El
Pais said, quoting the man.

The rules came into effect in Spain in response to a
flu virus that has killed 26 people in Mexico.

The man was referred to Madrid's Carlos III hospital
immediately after the doctor learned the man had been to Mexico. The staff in
Carlos III hospital were so afraid of the virus that they instructed the patient
on how to take his own temperature from behind a window.

"It took me two days to learn how to read the mercury
thermometer. They'd tell me over the telephone 'Turn it that way and you'll be
able to see it,'" the man said.

The man said he suffered because of the heating in
his room, which had the windows permanently locked.

"I thought it was because of infection, because they
were afraid the virus might get out through the window, but it turned out that I
was in a ward reserved for prisoners and mental patients," he told El Pais.

(Agencies)

Austria's first A/H1N1 flu patient discharged from hospital

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VIENNA, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Austria's first A/H1N1 flu patient has been
discharged from hospital Saturday after finding no more virus inside her body,
local media reported.

The patient, a 28-year-old female, left the hospital Saturday afternoon,
the report said.

According to the patient, she infected the A/H1N1 flu virus on a flight
from Mexico to the United States last week as there were a large number of
Mexicans onboard.

The girl was sent to hospital in Vienna after showing symptoms of flu. She
was then tested positive of the A/H1N1 flu virus.

Christoph Wenisch, the doctor who treated the infected woman, said on
Thursday that test results had showed there are no more viruses inside the
patient's body after the treatment.

Wenisch added that the patient showed improvement since taking medicines
for the second time.

Conjoined twin girls separated at Nashville hospital

BEIJING, April. 8 (Xin***)-- Conjoined twin girlswho shared a liver and were born withoneumbilical cord were separated Tuesday at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children¡¯s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.

Keylee Ann and Zoey Marie Miller were born January 4 in Johnson City. They were immediately transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. Together, they weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces.

The twins were cared for in the NICU for the past three months until they grew strong enough for Tuesday¡¯s separation surgery. The surgery lasted eight hours.

They are both in critical condition. Parents Victoria Ford and Brian Miller are optimistic about their daughters' prognosis, according to a news release from the hospital.

(Agencies)