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| Israel finds first swine flu case | Israel finds first swine flu case |
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| Israel has confirmed its first case of swine flu, saying tests showed a young man who recently returned from Mexico had contracted the virus. | Israel has confirmed its first case of swine flu, saying tests showed a young man who recently returned from Mexico had contracted the virus. |
| Ynet news agency quoted health officials saying the man had been committed to Laniado hospital in Netanya with flu-like symptoms. | |
| His condition was reported to be stable, but he has not yet been isolated from other patients. | His condition was reported to be stable, but he has not yet been isolated from other patients. |
| More than 152 people are thought to have died from the disease in Mexico. | More than 152 people are thought to have died from the disease in Mexico. |
| "The results of the tests have been released and it is officially determined that he has contracted" the potentially fatal strain of swine flu, Israeli radio said. | |
| The diagnosis is believed to mark the first confirmed case of swine flu the Middle East. The World Health Organization has warned it has "pandemic" potential. | |
| The man has not been named officially, but family members said Tomer Vagim, 28, had complained of flu symptoms after returning from Mexico. | |
| Another man, aged 49, who had also been in Mexico is currently under quarantine in a hospital undergoing tests. | |
| One Monday, Israel's deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman, who belongs to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, said the outbreak should be renamed "Mexican flu" in deference to Jewish and Muslim sensitivities over pork. |