Japanese health authorities on Sunday reported 32 additional confirmed H1N1 infections, lifting the domestic case count to 40. Most of the newly diagnosed were high school students in Osaka prefecture and Kobe, the Hyogo prefecture city already grappling with eight earlier cases. A college student, a teacher, and a woman in her 50s also tested positive.
Four previously confirmed patients, including a teacher and three students who returned from Canada through Detroit, contracted the virus abroad and have since recovered, putting the national total at 44. The cabinet planned an emergency session Monday to weigh containment measures. A virologist advising the WHO cautioned that hundreds of people may already be carrying the virus, suggesting many passed through airport screening undetected because their symptoms were mild.
Historical summary. TurkishPress restated this wire report, first published in May 2009, in its own words.