Confirmed N1H1 Cases - Narita

Three cases of the N1H1 strain of influenza has been confirmed at Narita airport. The teacher in his 40s and two students had been staying in Oakville, Ontario, on a school trip from April 24 and arrived at the airport via Detroit on a Northwest Airlines flight Friday that landed at around 4:30 p.m. During a quarantine inspection upon landing, the three, who have developed symptoms such as fever and coughing, tested positive for influenza A and were taken to Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital in Chiba Prefecture.

Prime Minister Aso assured the Japanese the cases were isolated, and does not indicate the beginning of a domestic emergence of the disease. The flight had 410 passengers and crew - 49 people, including 33 who were traveling with the three patients, were put up at a nearby hotel for 10 days of medical monitoring,