Turkey confirms 2 more swine flu cases in citizens arriving from US

Hurriyet Daily News with wires

The ministry said the two patients were hospitalized with fever and muscle pain after returning Friday to Turkey. National laboratory tests show they are infected with H1N1, the formal name for swine flu.

The two have been placed in quarantine, are under observation and are in good health, the statement added. The ministry said Sunday that one patient had arrived on a plane from Houston, and the other had traveled from New York.

They are Turkey’s 3rd and 4th cases to date. Earlier in May a laboratory determined a U.S. citizen of Iraqi origin and his mother were infected with swine flu before being treated at a hospital and released. Thermal cameras at Istanbul airport had detected a high fever in the man.   

Lebanon and Cyprus confirmed their first cases of the H1N1 virus on Saturday.

The virus has infected at least 15,600 people globally and killed 113, most of them in Mexico.