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Breaking News
10:10pm UK, Saturday April 25, 2009
A deadly flu which has killed up to 68 people across Mexico may have spread as far as London and New York.
Mexican children receive masks
Mexican children are fitted with masks amid health fears
The World Health Organisation called an emergency meeting today and admitted they were "very, very concerned".
In New York up to nine people from a school party tested positive for what is believed to be swine flu after returning from a trip to Mexico.
And in London a member of a British Airways cabin crew was taken to hospital with "flu-like symptoms" after falling ill on a flight from Mexico City to Heathrow.
The man, who has not been named, has been taken to Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, a hospital spokesman said.
Dr Alan Hay
He added: "He has flu-like symptoms and is responding well to treatment."
The World Health Organisation's director-general, Margaret Chan, said the outbreak of the never-before-seen virus had "pandemic potential."
But she said it is still too early to tell if it would become a worldwide outbreak.
"The situation is evolving quickly," Chan said in a telephone news conference in Geneva.
"A new disease is by definition poorly understood."
At least eight people have been infected by the new virus in Texas and California, raising fears of a pandemic.
And this evening health experts in America said that nine members of a school party which had visited Mexico had tested positive for suspected swine flu.
Mexican authorities have closed schools and other public buildings, suspended public events and begun a vaccination campaign in an attempt to contain the outbreak.
Mexican health minister Jose Angel Cordova confirmed 20 deaths from swine flu and said authorities were probing another 48 who had died with flu symptoms.
The flu combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before.
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Margaret Chan, has cut short a visit to Washington and returned to the agency's Geneva headquarters to oversee the handling of the outbreak.
Revolucion avenue in Tijuana
The authorities fear a pandemic
The UN health agency says lab tests have confirmed 12 of the Mexican cases are identical to a swine flu virus detected in the US.
It is convening an expert panel to decide whether to raise the pandemic alert level.
"We are very, very concerned," said WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham.
"We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human. It's all hands on deck at the moment."
Mexican authorities have urged people to avoid hospitals unless they have a medical emergency.
They have also said the public should avoid customary greetings such as shaking hands or kissing cheeks.
At Mexico City's international airport, passengers were questioned to try to prevent anyone with flu symptoms from boarding aircraft and spreading the disease.
In a further precaution residents of the capital donned surgical masks and public gathering places were shut down for the first time in 25 years.
ETA - Edited to add link
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...hreatened_After_Cases_In_Texas_And_California
