H1N1 Flu Hits Students in China and Taiwan

Content：Six Hong Kong students have been confirmed with H1N1 flu in Beijing and another 25 are quarantined. Several members of the traveling party had shown signs of a fever on arrival at Beijing airport on Sunday, July 26. The students, who are aged between 14 and 17 years old, were planning to visit famous landmarks in the city. [Pun Siu-hong, Group Leader]: "The students are a well-disciplined group. I believe they will be well behaved and will not get upset." And in Taiwan, another six confirmed H1N1 cases were discovered on Wednesday, July 29. The infected were medical students from Hong Kong and China who were attending an Asian Medical Students' Conference. [Conference Worker]: "(They felt sick) when we were in Taipei, and they came down with us to Hualien." The sick students are in quarantine in a hotel in Hualien. [Chan Ya-chen, Hotel Spokesperson]: "During their stay, we will provide separate accommodation, and make sure they stay quarantined." Taiwanese health officials say the virus has not spread to other students and the conference will continue as scheduled.

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