India confirms 2 more cases of H1N1 flu

NEW DELHI, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A 34-year-old woman and her five-year-old son from Tamil Nadu, southern India, who returned from the United States on May 28, have been confirmed to be infected with the A H1N1 influenza virus, said Indian health officials Tuesday.

They are the second and third cases of the deadly disease in India so far.

The unidentified woman's eight-year-old daughter who had also traveled with them tested negative for H1N1 infection, said the officials.

All three have been put in quarantine at an isolation facility in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and have been administered Tamiflu -- the only known antiviral effective against swine flu, said the reports.

The woman and her children had gone to visit her husband who works in Boston.

Indian Health secretary Naresh Dayal said the family was checked for fever both in United States and the Indian city of Chennai, where they landed, and they had tested negative. They only started getting symptoms after they reached Coimbatore, another city of Tamil Nadu.

India is now trying to track down around 55 domestic passengers who had traveled with this family on the Kingfisher flight IT-2901from Chennai to Coimbatore.

In the first confirmation of A H11 case, a 23-year-old man, who arrived at the central Indian city of Hyderabad airport from the United States, was found to be infected with influenza A H1N1 in mid-May.