SIA cabin crew gets H1N1

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H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK
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Singapore has confirmed two more cases of Influenza A (H1N1-2009), bringing the number of infected persons to 14. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->A 22-YEAR-OLD flight attendant with the Singapore Airlines has become the first cabin crew to come down with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus here.
She was on the same flight as three other confirmed cases in Singapore who flew here from New York via Frankfurt earlier this week on SQ25.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>Avoid travel to affected aeas
THE Ministry of Health advises the public to avoid non-essential travel to these affected areas:
- Melbourne and the State of Victoria in Australia
- Kobe and Osaka in Japan
- Chile, USA, Canada and Mexico

Should they become unwell within seven days of their return from affected areas, they should seek medical attention promptly and call 993 for an ambulance.

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SQ25 passengers should monitor health
AS SIX confirmed cases were related to SQ25 on June 1, Health Ministry advised passengers on that flight - from New York to Singapore via Frankfurt - to monitor their health closely until Monday.

They are advised to go to CDC immediately for an assessment using the 993 ambulance if they become unwell.

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Two other foreign passengers who were on the same flight but left for Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, have also been diagnosed with the virus in Malaysia.
The stewardess was on the SQ25 flight from New York to Frankfurt which brought in three cases here on Monday - a 30-year-old Australian man, a 33-year-old Singaporean woman, and a 18-year-old American youth.
The stewardess stayed on in Frankfurt for a day and returned to Singapore on Tuesday morning. She took a taxi home. The next day, she developed symptoms but saw a general practitioner only a day later. She was brought to the Communicable Disease Centre and tests confirmed she had the virus.
The SIA stewardess, who had been in New York since May 24, was one of two new cases in Singapore on Friday.
The other was a Singaporean man who developed flu symptoms in the early hours of Wednesday while still in Melbourne. He had been there since May 27.
When the 23-year-old flew back to Singapore on Thursday afternoon on SIA flight SQ238, he was picked up by the thermal scanners at the airport with a fever and was sent to the hospital.
He is the second person here to have picked up the flu after returning from Melbourne, which was recently added by the Health Ministry (MOH) to the list of cities to avoid travelling to if the trip is not essential.
He was seated in row 40. Passengers seated between rows 38 and 42 should contact the MOH at 1800-333-9999. The ministry is also advising anyone who was on flight SQ25 to monitor their health closely until next Monday.
An SIA spokesman said the infected stewardess had been taken off its roster after returning to Singapore. All other crew members who were on the same flight have been grounded for seven days. For other flights carrying passengers with the virus, crew members serving in the same area as the patients were also grounded.

 

[COW flu]

The BIG QUESTION is why are MOST of the cases from SIA so far?


SIA is the H1N1 official airline?

 

[darryl_sw]

H1N1. Singapore is good at detecting them before the fellas step into their borders. But before that, they don't care. "Everyone for themselves, the other countries on all don't care"

 

[jumpmrt]

H1N1. Singapore is good at detecting them before the fellas step into their borders. But before that, they don't care. "Everyone for themselves, the other countries on all don't care"

Nope! Not at all.

Most cases SLIPPED past screening and detection especially those at the airport.

Most cases were admitted after virus infected person ENTERED Singapore and Fell Sick in Singapore, and then fetched to CDC TTSH.

Singapore is NO GOOD AT ALL with any medical screening and detection.

It is the patients who were sick and fear death, and they quickly seek help from doctors and hospital with their own personal efforts that the cases became known and confirmed.

 

[jumpmrt]

The BIG QUESTION is why are MOST of the cases from SIA so far?


SIA is the H1N1 official airline?

Singapore's Luck is VERY SUAY these days. Even Lightnings can hit Merlion's head, even casinos projects needs to be subsidized with tax payers funds, even the stupid Farris wheel fucking caught fire in the engine room and died.

 

[darryl_sw]

This must be some sort of sign (: Maybe good for us, maybe not. SIA is definitely not doing enough then. The last I heard, secondary schools have stopped their daily temperture taking as "experts feel that the H1N1 is not as deadly as they originally feared". The temperature required to be sent home has increased to 38.1 degrees.

This is really ridiculous from my point of view. Even an ordinary human with 37.5 is already considered to have Fever. 38.1 degrees before sending student home?

Singapore is a really efficient city man.

 

[Privpho]

It is about time someone casts doubts on the ability of the authorities to keep H1N1 in check.

The way I see it, it could become free-spreading soon.

Whatever happened to screening and detection at the airport? Not working?

 

[darryl_sw]

It is about time someone casts doubts on the ability of the authorities to keep H1N1 in check.

The way I see it, it could become free-spreading soon.

Whatever happened to screening and detection at the airport? Not working?

Hey! What's your problem man?! You know how much is it to set up proper screening and detection!! At least 4 digits you know! Do you know how much money it'll take off the tax that the government collect? Government no need money one is it? Of course must feed the government well mah, the rest of the stuff worry later, just make sure Government got more first. Not enough just increase lor.

 

[wuqi256]

I don't understand how come they are asking folks in the front of row 40 and behind to call MOH when they should be actively doing the tracing like HK does. Even down to the cab driver who sent the sick person. They are clearly not doing enough or resigned to the fact that it will spread and once enough people has resistance to it, be another common cold. To be fair though to them though, the minute the sick person takes an MRT/bus, all efforts down the drain.

Singapore has a problem where the sick will still go to work, take public transport without a facemask and cough here or sneeze there without covering their mouths. The responsible culture that the Japs have where even when they are sick, they will always have a mask is just not present here. All germs/diseases are generously "shared".