the influenza virus A (H1N1) in place of pig influenza

About 300 people in Hong Kong, the hotel was placed under quarantine after he was guest of China confirmed the first case of influenza of pigs.25-year-old man who is now in hospital after testing positive for the virus traveled from Mexico in Shanghai, Hong Kong a leader said.
Local television showed police staff wearing masks of the guards of the hotel outlets.

Meanwhile, the British took Canada, Spain, Germany and the United States during the reporting from person to person transmission of the

virus.

On Friday, the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said two people were infected with swine flu in France confirmed the first cases.

South Korea also confirmed that the first case, local media said.

Messages go to 16 the number of countries where the swine flu was confirmed.

Mexico, where the outbreak began, has closed parts of its economy in five days in an attempt to curb the virus progress.

Late Friday, Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova announced the death the victims of the virus has increased from one to 16

"Mortality is not as great as one would expect," said Mr. Cordoba. "Most of those killed were women."

Mexican officials say the spread of swine flu - more than 380 suspected deaths - is waning.

International experts are more cautious - but one, Nancy Cox, chief of the U. C. The Center for disease control of influenza division, said

the new virus lacks features that made the 1918 pandemic so deadly.

"We do not see the markers of virulence, which was observed in the 1918 virus," she said.

'No panic'

In cases without mexico effects of the virus does not appear to be serious, even if the death of a Mexican child has been confirmed in the

U.S..

WHO has set its pandemic alert level of five - but he has no immediate plans to go to the highest level in six.

In Hong Kong, authorities raised the alert level for the acute, but urged residents to continue life as usual.

BBC China editor Shirong Chen says the confirmation that the man was tested positive for the virus is ringing alarm bells in addition to Hong

Kong.

Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu said that the virus is likely to enter mainland China and urged the country to prepare for an outbreak,

which raised over one million starting in May long weekend.

In South Korea, A 51-year-old woman who had recently returned from Mexico was confirmed in the first case Yonhap agency reported.

Two other people were tested for the virus, the Agency said.

In other developments:

• The United States announced it would purchase 13 million courses of antiviral treatment and send 400,000 of them to Mexico

• a flight from Germany to Washington was diverted to Boston after a female passenger complaints of flu-like symptoms

• An advisor to the U. S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who helped arrange the president Barack Obama travel to Mexico soon be tested for

swine flu, although the adviser said that they were in contact with the President

• Head of the U. S. Centers for Control Disease and Prevention say it is good for people who do not have flu symptoms to fly and use the

subway, one days after the vice president Joe Biden said he would advise his family members to use public transport

• Denmark reports its first confirmed cases of influenza in swine

• German authorities confirmed that a nurse who treated patients with fever and flu contracted the disease in the first human to human

transmission in the country

• Test results confirmed the UK the first person-to-person transmission of swine influenza in a friend a couple from Scotland, who was the

first country to be diagnosed with the virus

Several countries have restricted travel to Mexico and many operators canceled vacations.

WHO, meanwhile, says it will now call the influenza virus A (H1N1) in place of pig influenza - which he says is misleading, since pork is

safe and viruses that are transmitted from person to person