23 May 2009
A spokesman for the Department of Health said today (May 23) that the parents of the 19-year-old woman who was confirmed to have been infected with human swine influenza (HSI) - (Influenza A H1N1) tested negative for the disease.
Two staff members of a cosmetic shop in Tsim Sha Tsui where the patient had attended on May 20 also tested negative for HSI, the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, staff of the Centre for Health Protection has located two more passengers who arrived in Hong Kong on May 18 from New York by taking the same flight (CX831) with the 19-year-old patient.
They sat close to another confirmed HSI patient, an Australian doctor, who was intercepted by the health authority of Taiwan earlier.
"They were located in a local hotel and in Taiwan respectively.
"The one in Hong Kong has no influenza symptoms and has been administered directly observed chemoprophylaxis (DOC) and put under medical surveillance," the spokesman said.
The CHP is still looking for the remaining three passengers who were on board the same flight (CX831) and sat close to the patient intercepted in Taiwan.