British child gets Swin flu in Greece

UK, July 30, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - The 16-year-old is on a life-support machine after suffering lung damage and complications believed to be linked to swine flu, according to the Daily Express.

The teenager, known as Sasha, had been island hopping with her family but was admitted to hospital on the island of Cephalonia.

She was flown to the country's main children's hospital in Athens on Tuesday after her condition deteriorated and she became unconscious.

Her parents, businessman Julian Newman and theatrical agent Nikki Boughton, are at her bedside. Mr Newman said: "Natasha is very bad. She has chronic respiratory failure. She has complications like pneumonia."

Doctors at the Ayia Sofia children's hospital have described the teenager's condition as "very grave".

Dr Lina Sianidou, head of the intensive care unit, said: "There is no doubt that she is suffering from swine flu. She is in a critical condition and very much struggling.

"It is clear she had this new virus for at least eight days before she sought help and that has made her condition worse."

Another hospital doctor, who asked not to be named, said: "Her condition is very grave. She was in a very bad state, running a very high temperature when she got here. She developed acute breathing problems and eventually lost consciousness in Cephalonia."

The family left their £1 million house in Highgate, north London, three weeks ago for a month's holiday. Mr Newman owns north London company J Newman Textiles Ltd.

Natasha is a pupil at prestigious public school Gordonstoun in Elgin, Scotland, where Prince Charles attended. She has recently completed her GCSE exams and is a keen musician.

Medical authorities said they were not aware she has underlying health problems. Natasha is one of three swine flu victims in intensive care in Greece, authorities revealed.

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First Swine Flu death in India

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Pune, August 03 2009: India recorded its first Swine flu death today in Pune.

A young girl named Riya Shiekh died at a private hospital in Pune on Monday, 3rd August.

She was on a ventilator in an ICU for a number of days, reports swin-flu.india.org.

Pune has recorded the most number of cases of Swine flu in India.

India now has over 551 confirmed cases flu out of which 422 have been cured and discharged.

However there have been a number of cases where the virus has reappeared in patients.

Statistics have revealed that children below the age of 15 are more susceptible to the virus.

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China quarantines U.S. school group over flu concerns

A group of students and teachers from a Maryland private school have been quarantined in China because of swine flu concerns, a school spokeswoman said Thursday.

The Chinese government has confined 21 students and three teachers to their hotel rooms in Kaili, China, because a passenger on their plane to China was suspected of having swine flu, or H1N1, said Vicky Temple, director of communications for the Barrie School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Temple said the students and teachers are occupying two floors of a four-star hotel in the Guizhou province city in southern China.

The quarantine will end Friday, and the students are scheduled to return to the United States on Sunday, Temple said.

Mike Kennedy, the head of Barrie School, said U.S. consular officials have since told the school that the plane passenger does not have swine flu, or H1N1.

"So now our question has been for the last 24 hours, can this quarantine be lifted even sooner than sometime on Friday so these kids can get out and enjoy a little bit of China," he said.

"Since about noon on Monday, they have been in their hotel rooms," he said. "They've missed the lion's share of the itinerary."

China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the Guizhou province's health bureau announced this week that it had discovered two dozen Americans who had been within four rows of the suspected swine flu case on the plane.

The plane had departed Friday from San Francisco, California.

Kennedy said the students and teachers are permitted to speak to one another through the open doors of their hotel rooms, but are not allowed to leave. "They're being well taken care of, but they are in their hotel rooms," he said.

"It's very frustrating," he said, but added, "I understand and I'd like to say that the Chinese officials have been as kind and friendly to our kids and chaperones as they can be."

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in a Thursday afternoon briefing that he was aware of the report but said he didn't have any details on the circumstances or what the U.S. officials might be doing about it.