Tourist may have contracted deadly strain while on holiday in Thailand Final Edition

Virologists in Paris are expected to release this morning the results of samples taken from a 43-year-old man from the French Indian Ocean island of Runion who is one of three people suspected of having contracted the bird flu virus while on holiday in Thailand. Last night, the French government sto...

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Published inIndependent (London, England : 1986)
Main Author Alex Duval Smith in Paris
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 27.10.2005
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Summary:Virologists in Paris are expected to release this morning the results of samples taken from a 43-year-old man from the French Indian Ocean island of Runion who is one of three people suspected of having contracted the bird flu virus while on holiday in Thailand. Last night, the French government stopped short of issuing travel restrictions but the national centre for disease control, the Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS), renewed its advisory to passengers returning from areas affected by H5N1. This states that people returning to France from an affected area should seek medical advice if they suffer from fever and flu symptons within 10 days of the end of their trip.
ISSN:0951-9467