SDF personnel help with influenza checks at Narita airport

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Self-Defense Forces personnel arrive at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on April 30 to help quarantine officers checking for swine flu after the World Health Organization raised its flu alert level to phase 5, one notch below the highest pandemic phase.

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