Six may have virus in ACT - 紐澳

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Six may have virus in ACT
29/04/2009 12:18:00 PM

Ninety-one Australians are being tested for the potentially deadly swine flu
virus.

As at 11am (AEST) Wednesday, there are 31 suspected cases in Queensland, 19
in Victoria, 14 in South Australia, 10 in NSW, eight in Western Australia,
six in the ACT, two in Tasmania and one in the Northern Territory.

Health authorities are also in contact with an additional 22 people who were
on the same flight last Saturday as Auckland high school students who tested
positive to swine flu.

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As at 11am (AEST) Wednesday, April 29, there are 91 suspected cases in
Australia.

Queensland - 31

Victoria - 19

South Australia - 14

NSW - 10

Western Australia - eight

ACT - six

Tasmania - two

Northern Territory - one

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Pharmacy Guild president Kos Sclavos says face masks will be replenished by
Thursday in pharmacies that have sold out of them.

Anti-viral drugs believed to be effective in treating the swine flu - Tamiflu
and Relenza - are also in plentiful supply.

Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham is stranded in a training camp in the coastal
town of Veracruz, some 400 kilometres west of Mexico city.

The Beijing Games gold medallist and his diving partner Alexandra Croak
participated in a FINA world diving series event in Mexico City last weekend.

"I'm more concerned boarding a plane than I am staying here," Mitcham told
ABC Radio.

The pair will continue to train in the town until the NSW Institute of Sport
can find a flight for them and has sent them Tamiflu as a precaution.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has advised Australians to
reconsider travelling to Mexico, where swine flu is feared to have killed 152
people.

Travellers are also warned to exercise caution in the United States and
Canada, where non-fatal swine flu cases have been confirmed.

The Queensland state government is pressing ahead with trade missions despite
the swine flu outbreak.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is scheduled to leave next week on a two-week
trade mission to Spain, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.

There has been two confirmed cases of swine flu in Spain.

Trade Minister Stephen Robertson is due to visit a biotechnology conference
in the US in May.

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said Governor-General Quentin Bryce has
consented to sweeping new quarantine powers for health officials in response
to the global outbreak of swine flu.

Authorities now have the power to detain people with symptoms of the virus.

But Ms Roxon stressed the powers were only precautionary measures and won't
necessarily be used.

"We are not about to take those steps but we want to make sure that all the
powers are there, that we are ready to act if this takes a dramatic turn for
the worst," she told ABC Radio.

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