British Airways cabin crew was taken to hospital with suspected swine flu

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25388108-663,00.html

BRITISH health authorities have been placed on alert after a member of a British Airways cabin crew was taken to hospital with suspected swine flu after becoming sick on a return flight from Mexico.

In the first suspected case of its kind found in Europe, the unnamed man was working on flight BA242 when he became ill shortly before landing at Heathrow Airport in London at 2pm local time yesterday. He had been in Mexico City.

"He has flu-like symptoms and is responding well to treatment," a spokesman for Northwick Park Hospital where the man is being treated in an isolation unit.

"The patient was admitted directly to a side room and the hospital is scrupulously following infection control procedures to ensure there is no risk to any other individual in the hospital."

A Health Protection Agency (HPA) spokesman said the patient was being tested and late last night an infection of swine flu was still not confirmed.