Ten people in swine flu alert in Denmark and Sweden

At least 10 people are under observation in Denmark and Sweden for possible swine flu after visiting Mexico and the southern US, health authorities in the two countries said Monday (April 27).

At least five people are undergoing examinations in Sweden, according to Mia Mrytting, an official at the national institute for the control of infectious diseases, told the TT national news agency.

In Denmark, three women and a man who came back from a trip to Mexico and the United States last week were under observation in a hospital at Hvidovre, west of Copenhagen, the senior doctor at the hospital told TV2 news.

A fifth person was hospitalised in the northern city of Aalborg with flu symptoms after a visit to the southern United States, near the Mexican border.

But Danish authorities ruled out swine flu in the case of two people hospitalised over the weekend.

An international alert has been sounded after more the Mexican authorities said the probable death toll from the outbreak there had risen to 103.