April 27, 2009
British Airways employee doesn't have swine flu
A British Airways (BAIRY) cabin crew steward admitted to hospital with "flu-like symptoms" after arriving on a flight from Mexico City doesn't have swine flu, the hospital said Sunday (April 26).
"I can confirm he does not have swine flu. All the tests have come back negative," a spokesman at Northwick Park hospital said.
A BA spokesman said Saturday the man was on flight BA242 from Mexico City which had landed at 2 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) at London's main Heathrow Airport.
The Health Protection Agency stressed that he was undergoing tests "as a precautionary measure."
Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova announced overnight that up to 81 people may have died in Mexico from the new multi-strain swine flu, which has also infected 10 people in the US as the World Health Organization warned that the virus "clearly has a pandemic potential."
