A 20-year-old female who recently returned from a stay in Mexico has become the fourth confirmed case of swine flu in Israel. She remains in isolation in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. All passengers on Iberia Airlines flight 3752 on which she traveled have been instructed to remain home for a one-week incubation period as was reported by YWN. This refers to the flight that landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport on May 2nd at 5:00am.
Any of the passengers from that flight developing “flu type symptoms” are instructed to report to the emergency room closed to their home.
A customs police officer assigned to Ben-Gurion is in isolation in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem with flu-type symptoms, but physicians explain it is most unlikely she was infected. There are others in isolation as well awaiting test results, including an 8-month-old, also in Hadassah.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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If you read about the infamous flu of 1918 (it possbily started earlier but no one noticed since the soldiers were dropping dead at such a high rate from a variety of diseases and infections), you will notice that this flu is nothing to worry
about.
#1: I agree, except if you happen to be infected, R”L.
Hashem Yishmor, v’Yerapeh kol cholei Yisrael.
#1 your obnoxious because even one person dead from a sickness which as of now has no cure and, if you read about it youll notice that a few hundred people have died all around the world from it