Japan's 1st suspected case of new influenza virus detected

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A staff member (front) of the Yokohama Municipal Citizens Hospital is surrounded by reporters on May 1 after a 17-year-old male high school student from Yokohama, who visited British Columbia, Canada, on a school excursion in April, was hospitalized in the first suspected case in Japan of the rapidly spreading new strain of influenza A virus.

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