Taiwan gets 2 more flu cases

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Two more cases of swine flu, officially known as influenza type A(H1N1), were confirmed in Taiwan yesterday. But health officials maintained the epidemic alert at Level Two with a focus on forestalling the virus spread into Taiwan from abroad.

Shih Wen-yi, spokesman for the Central Epidemics Command Center (CECC) at the Executive Yuan (Cabinet), reported at 7 p.m. that a 22-year-old Taiwanese female student studying in New York was discovered to have a fever of 38.6 degrees Celsius upon arrival at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport a day earlier.

The young woman was taken by ambulance directly from the airport to the nearby Taoyuan General Hospital and placed in quarantine.

“She has been given anti-flu medicine and her condition is under control,” Shih said.

Shih, who is concurrently deputy director-general of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) under the Department of Health (DOH), had to hold another press conference in late evening to announce that another co-ed returning from the U.S. West Coast had also tested positive for swine flu.

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