Japanese woman not new flu cases

YOKOHMA, Japan - A Yokohama city government official (L) holds a news conference at the Yokohama city hall on May 3. He said a Japanese woman in her 40s was found not to be infected with the new strain of the influenza A virus. The woman, originally from Tokyo, developed symptoms of fever and coughing after returning from San Francisco on April 28 and was staying at her friend's home in Yokohama.

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