Northwest passenger tests positive for influenza, type unknown

NARITA, Japan - A Japanese woman, covered with a black hood, descends stairs with the help of a quarantine official from the boarding bridge to an ambulance at Narita airport on April 30 amid growing fears over a possible outbreak of swine flu. She was taken to a hospital after testing positive for an unspecified type of influenza on arriving at the airport east of Tokyo aboard on a Northwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles. (Kyodo)

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