First case of swine flu hits Poland

8th May 2009

Poland’s health authorities say that they have confirmed the nation’s first case of swine flu.

Poland’s health authorities say that they have confirmed the nation’s first case of swine flu.

Health Minister Ewa Kopacz told reporters earlier this week that the official National Health Centre Lab had discovered the flu virus in a 58 year old woman who was returning from New York at the beginning of the month.

The woman in question has since been hospitalised in the south-eastern city of Mielec but is said to be in a ‘stable condition’.

According to Kopacz, the rest of the passengers on the Polish LOT flight, as well as her immediate family, will be quarantined and are to al ...