Swine Flu Smoking Gun?

Swine Flu Smoking Gun? CDC was Combining Flu Viruses in 2004 - the most headline topics -- the most current issue since the day that Swine flu virus infecting and killing so many people in Mexico. Bottom line: the new flu virus contains DNA from avian, swine viruses (including elements from European and Asian viruses) and human viruses.

Now that Australia is confirmed of having 1 victim of H1N1 virus and also Japan country. TOKYO — Japanese authorities scrambled Saturday to track travellers who arrived on the same flight as three people diagnosed with the country's first confirmed cases of H1N1 flu. Australia also joined the ranks of affected countries with its first confirmed case.

Authorities in Tokyo quarantined a high school teacher and two of his teenage students who returned Friday from a school trip to Canada on a flight from the U.S. after they tested positive at the airport.

A lab at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases later confirmed they had the virus that has killed at least 47 people and sickened more than 3,100 in 30 countries, most in the U.S. and Mexico, Health and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe said.

The ministry confirmed that seven more people aboard the same flight had been taken to a hospital after they complained of feeling ill, and were undergoing tests. The ministry declined to give further details.

Since the outbreak began last month, several countries, including Japan, have screened air travellers for flu symptoms. But news reports said as many as 11 people on the Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit that landed in Tokyo on Friday avoided those screenings.

The ministry said at least 13 people -- believed to be separate from the reported 11 that the ministry was still investigating -- had gone on to other destinations in transit from that flight, and efforts were under way to contact them through the World Health Organization.