Source: Xinhua
04-29-2009 10:11
Special Report: Tech MaxXI'AN, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Tests on sick schoolchildren in China's northwestern province of Shaanxi have shown they were not infected by swine flu, a local official said here Tuesday.
"They just caught a cold and they had completely recovered as of April 22," Liu Shaoming, head of the provincial health administration, told Xinhua in a telephone interview.
Liu's remarks came after the World Health Organization's China representative Hans Troedsson said earlier Tuesday in Beijing that the Chinese authorities were investigating "several suspected cases" of influenza in Shaanxi.
Medical examinations by the disease control center in Xi'an, the provincial capital, confirmed the sick children had caught B-type influenza, which is common in humans.
Liu's comments were confirmed by a report on the website of China's Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
A total of 60 schoolchildren and three teachers at the Qianwei township junior high school in Lantian County, showed symptoms of high temperature from April 14 to 16.
