Japanese woman tests positive for influenza A at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - Japanese quarantine staff members head to an American Airlines plane at Narita airport on May 4. A Japanese woman who arrived from Los Angeles aboard the plane tested positive for the influenza A virus, the same type as the new strain of the flu virus, in a preliminary exam.

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