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| Germany declares swine flu cases | Germany declares swine flu cases |
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| Germany has confirmed three cases of swine flu - the most in Europe. | Germany has confirmed three cases of swine flu - the most in Europe. |
| The victims include two women, aged 22 and 37, and a man in his 30s. All had recently returned from Mexico. | The victims include two women, aged 22 and 37, and a man in his 30s. All had recently returned from Mexico. |
| Germany is the third European country to confirm cases of swine flu, after Spain and the UK, which have declared two each. | Germany is the third European country to confirm cases of swine flu, after Spain and the UK, which have declared two each. |
| Others are investigating suspected cases, but so far Mexico - the apparent source of the outbreak - is the only country where victims have died. | Others are investigating suspected cases, but so far Mexico - the apparent source of the outbreak - is the only country where victims have died. |
| German authorities say there is no need to panic - and that they have sufficient stocks of anti-flu drugs to protect the population, says the BBC's Tristana Moore in Berlin. | German authorities say there is no need to panic - and that they have sufficient stocks of anti-flu drugs to protect the population, says the BBC's Tristana Moore in Berlin. |
| But the country is bracing for more cases and is increasing its watchfulness at airports like Hamburg and Frankfurt. | But the country is bracing for more cases and is increasing its watchfulness at airports like Hamburg and Frankfurt. |
| The 22-year-old woman with the virus is from Hamburg, the 37-year-old woman from Kulmbach, and the man is being treated in Regensburg, southern Germany, said the Robert Koch Institute, which specialises in infectious diseases. | |
| Honeymoon couple | |
| Across Europe authorities are monitoring other suspected cases. | |
| In Scotland a couple have reportedly been quarantined in their own home after becoming the second newly-married couple suspected of picking up the disease on their honeymoon in Mexico. | |
| After their return from Cancun, Jenny Marshall fell ill and she and her new husband Pete had been told to stay inside for five days, he told a Scottish newspaper. | |
| Results are expected back on Wednesday from some of the tests being carried out on 23 people across Scotland suspected of being infected. | |
| In Portugal a three-year-old boy who arrived from the United States last week, is the country's first suspected case, local media have reported. | |
| On Tuesday EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou said suspected cases were also being investigated in the Republic of Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Greece and the Czech Republic. | |
| 'Unpredictable' | |
| In Geneva, the World Health Organization was holding an emergency review of the swine flu outbreak, and said it might raise its pandemic alert level to phase five - the second highest - if it turned out that the disease was being spread in at least two countries, the Associated Press reported. | |
| Level six is a pandemic. | |
| But senior WHO official Keiji Fukuda said that, with deaths only being reported in Mexico so far, it could turn out to be a "very mild pandemic", adding, however, that influenza "moves in ways we cannot predict". |