{"id":27978,"date":"2009-05-01T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:38:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:38:49","slug":"2978-hong-kong-confirms-a-swine-flu-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2978-hong-kong-confirms-a-swine-flu-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong confirms a swine flu case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"1241195785348S\" style=\"display: none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nHong Kong&rsquo;s chief executive, Donald Tsang, said a Mexican citizen who had flown to the territory, with a stopover in Shanghai, had developed a fever after arriving on Thursday. The patient has been isolated in a hospital and is reported to be in a stable condition. Tests by Hong Kong&rsquo;s department of health and the University of Hong Kong confirmed the diagnosis, Tsang added.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico has confirmed 156 cases and nine deaths, although authorities suspect the actual death toll is closer to 180. The United States has 109 cases and one death, a boy from Mexico who died in Texas. Thirteen countries around the world have reported confirmed cases, including Denmark, which announced its first case.<\/p>\n<p>While the WHO&rsquo;s latest figure was 331, it does not include all the most recent figures from various governments and disease control agencies.<\/p>\n<p>See <font color=\"#0000ff\"><u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/may\/01\/mexico-economic-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"1241195785753E\" style=\"display: none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first case of swine flu in Asia was confirmed by Hong Kong&rsquo;s government on Friday, the <em>Guardian<\/em> reported. Meanwhile, Mexico &#8212; the country worst hit by the outbreak of the influenza A (H1N1) virus &#8212; began a five-day nationwide shutdown in an effort to contain the spread of the flu. Globally, more than 330 cases have been confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-27978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hong Kong confirms a swine flu case | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first case of swine flu in Asia was confirmed by Hong Kong&rsquo;s government on Friday, the Guardian reported. 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