6TH LD: Japanese passenger on Northwest flight tests positive for influenza+

influenza+ (AP) - NARITA, Japan, May 1 (Kyodo)—(EDS: CHANGING HEADLINE) A Japanese female passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight that arrived at Narita international airport from Los Angeles on Thursday has tested positive for type A influenza in a preliminary examination, airport officials said. A new type of influenza that is spreading quickly around the world is included in the type A category, and it would be the first case in Japan if further examination diagnoses the 25-year-old woman as a patient suspected of having the infection. GA_googleFillSlot("news_story_instory"); She was transported from the airport by ambulance to Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital, where she has been given a private room. Accompanied by quarantine officers wearing protective suits, she walked into the hospital without assistance. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will announce the result of her examination as soon as it comes out, its officials said. Eleven other passengers who were seated near her have undergone follow-up checks on their health condition at accommodation near the airport, according to the officials. The ministry's quarantine office at the airport disinfected the airplane, which left for Beijing later in the day with passengers. Japan has yet to see an outbreak of the new type of influenza.

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