source | Fifty children and adults being treated for swine flu in an outbreak linked to a primary school are responding well to treatment, health officials say. Forty-five of the cases linked to Welford Primary School, in Handsworth, Birmingham, are children, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has said.

source | Romania identified its first case of the new H1N1 flu virus on Wednesday, in a 30-year-old woman who arrived from New York last week, the health minister said.

source | THE 22-year-old woman, who is Singapore’s first confirmed H1N1 case, had a fever of between 39 and 40 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning.

‘She was brought into the Emergency Department between noon and 1 pm, and by 5 pm the results were known and she was admitted to CDC,’ she said.

Prof Leo also commended the student for her vigilance, saying she did ‘a great job by identifying herself and indicating her travel history to the doctor when she was not feeling well.’

source | Finland’s health officials said Wednesday that a third swine influenza case had been confirmed in the country.

The National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) said the patient, 30, had recently travelled in the United States, adding he was stable and convalescing at home.

The swine flu infection was confirmed at the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district late on Tuesday.

The statement added the other passengers on the patient’s return flight from the US would be contacted.

source | A MCDONALDS outlet where a Victorian swine flu victim works has been closed as the number of confirmed Australian cases has doubled to 61 in just 24 hours.

source | Special swine flu clinics will be set up at some public hospitals in Victoria to ease the pressure on emergency departments.

source | Two more New York City residents – a 41-year-old woman from Queens and a 34-year-old man from Brooklyn – have died after contracting swine flu, bringing the total number of city fatalities related to the disease to four, the city.s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, announced on Tuesday afternoon. He added, “To our knowledge, neither of these individuals worked in the school system.”

source | MANAMA – THE Gulf kingdom of Bahrain has its first confirmed case of A(H1N1) swine flu, the health ministry said on Tuesday. ‘The first case is a young Bahraini man of 21 who has returned from studying in New York,’ ministry spokesman Adel Abdullah told AFP.

source | A Chicago-area resident has died of complications related to the H1N1 flu virus, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Monday. The patient is the first Illinois H1N1 flu-related death.

source | Dr. David Williams, the Ontario Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health, confirmed in a news release that a 44-year-old Toronto man with swine flu has died.

source | Like the first New Yorker to die of the virus, the woman from Queens, who was in her 50s, had an underlying health condition.

source | The luxury Taj Hotel, formerly the Ritz, notified its guests after an employee caught swine flu, saying it had taken “a full range of proactive measures” to protect against spread of the disease.

source | A UNC Health Care staff member, who was later confirmed to have the H1N1 virus, came in contact with patients and staff at the University Pediatrics at Highgate clinic in Durham this week, UNC Medical Center officials said. The infected worker might have exposed up to 17 pediatric patients to the virus, UNC Medical Center officials said. Some of the affected patients are 5 years old and younger.

source | More than 500 servicemen from the Hoyo de Manzanres Base near Madrid have been quarantined when 11 of them were found to be infected with the A/H1N1 flu virus, Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Fernandez de la Vega said on Friday.

source | About 18 people on U.S. military bases in Kuwait have tested positive for swine flu, a U.S. Central Command spokeswoman said Friday. They are the first cases reported in Kuwait. It remains unclear whether the virus has spread to the civilian population.