SINGAPORE TRACES PASSENGERS TRAVELLING WITH H1N1 PATIENTS

SINGAPORE, May 29 (Bernama) - The Singapore health authority has so far
identified 122 passengers who were on the same flights with the republic's
latest three H1N1 flu confirmed cases arriving on three separate flights from
the United States earlier this week.

Of the identified passengers, however, only 61 of them entered the
city state and so far the health authority managed to contact 18 of them and
served them the home-quarantined order, the Health Ministry said Friday.

The passengers that the local health authority are trying to locate are
those who travelled on flights United Airlines 895 from Chicago via Hong Kong on
May 25, Singapore Airlines SQ917 from San Francisco and the United Airlines
UA803 from Honolulu via Tokyo, both on May 26.

So far, Singapore has four confirmed H1N1 flu cases involving three
Singaporeans - a 22-year-old student, a 28-year-old man, a 43-year-old woman and
a 28-year-old American woman expatriate.

As of Friday, the ministry had served 31 home-quarantined orders to close
contacts of the four H1N1 confirmed cases.

The ministry said all the four patients had relatively mild symptoms
and were expected to recover soon, and all their quarantined close contacts were
also reported to be well and given Tamiflu.
-- BERNAMA