from today's Nikkei

2009年05月01日 08時46分46秒 | 新聞記事から
新型インフル 警戒水準5に引き上げ WHO大流行「切迫」と判断 欧州で感染拡大 世界合計13か国に ロス発成田便 乗客1人、簡易検査で陽性反応

The World Health Organization said at midnight of the 29th (JST:on the 30th morning) that the swine flu is on the brink of a pandemic as a new strain of flu and raised its alert level to Phase 5,which is the second serious level from the top of Phase 6.

As the flue was spreading in European countries, a patient had been newly found in the Netherlands by April 30.And the number of countries where the swine flu patiens have been found comes to be 13 in total.

In Japan also, a Japanese people who traveled back to Narita International Airport on the 30th afternoon from Los Angeles board a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane was found to be positive in a mini test on the plane.