New-flu infections in Japan total 364 in 10 prefectures+

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo -
The number of new-flu infections in Japan came to 364 in 10 prefectures as of
Wednesday afternoon, with Wakayama Prefecture joining other western Japan
prefectures in reporting an outbreak.

The Wakayama city government said Wednesday a male company employee in his late
20s living in the city was confirmed as infected with the new flu after
traveling May 18-23 to the Hawaiian island of Oahu with his wife, feeling
fatigued on Sunday and developing a fever on Tuesday. He became the first
new-flu case in the prefecture.
Those who were confirmed infected with the new flu Wednesday included the
4-year-old sister of a 7-year-old boy in Shizuoka city in central Japan who was
found infected Tuesday with the new H1N1 strain of influenza.
Along with three other family members, the two -- the first new-flu cases in
Shizuoka Prefecture -- arrived at Central Japan International Airport near
Nagoya from the Philippines on Friday, according to the Shizuoka municipal
government.
Since the first patients were quarantined at Narita airport on May 9 and the
first cases of domestic infection were found in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, a week
later, new-flu patients have been reported mostly in western Japan,
particularly Osaka and Hyogo prefectures, but a week ago it spread to the Tokyo
metropolitan area and then to Fukuoka in southwestern Japan and Shizuoka.
The girl and her brother in Shizuoka were in stable condition Wednesday
morning, with their temperature falling to 36.5 C, according to the local
government.
Earlier Wednesday, the Kawasaki city government in Kanagawa Prefecture, west of
Tokyo, said a woman in her 30s living in the city who recently returned from
the United States was also confirmed as infected. The Osaka municipal
government later reported two confirmed cases.
Meanwhile, some 325 kindergartens and schools in Shiga Prefecture in western
Japan resumed classes Wednesday after closing for about a week to prevent the
spread of the new flu.
The other prefectures in which infections have so far been reported are Kyoto
in western Japan and Saitama, north of Tokyo.
Across the globe, at least 13,766 people in 52 countries and territories were
confirmed to be infected with the new flu as of 10:30 p.m. Wednesday Japan
time, with a total of 100 dead in Mexico, the United States, Canada and Costa
Rica, according to reports from authorities concerned.
==Kyodo