Health | Updated Jun 13, 2009 at 03:36pm IST

Family quarantined for suspected swine flu

IANS

Chennai: A couple and their three children who flew in from the US on Saturday morning and showed symptoms of swine flu have been quarantined, officials said.

The family arrived by a Lufthansa flight.

They showed symptoms of the inlfuenza A (H1N1) and were taken to the Communicable Diseases Hospital in Chennai where tests for swine flu were done on them.

"One child showed symptoms of the flu," said the official.

The family was advised to remain in the hospital, which they refused. They are quarantined in a leading city hospital.

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