China seeks passengers with exposure to new A/H1N1 flu case

BEIJING. May 14. KAZINFORM China's Ministry of Health confirmed Wednesday a Shandong man has tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu. And authorities are seeking plane and train passengers who had exposure to this man, Kazinform refers to Xinhuanet.

The case, the second of its kind on the Chinese mainland, involved a 19-year-old student surnamed Lu who arrived in Beijing from Canada May 8 and traveled to Jinan, provincial capital of Shandong, three days later in a train labeled D41. The patient's surname, Lu, could also be spelled as Lv for convenience of Chinese character input. The development came just two days after a 30-year-old man surnamed Bao was found to have contracted the virus in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Bao is the first confirmed case of A/H1N1 on the Chinese mainland. Canadian Embassy in Beijing confirmed Wednesday that Lu, who studied at a Canadian university, boarded Air Canada flight AC029 together with his Chinese girlfriend surnamed Zhang, in Toronto at noon May 7, and stopped in Vancouver before arriving in Beijing May 8. An unidentified embassy spokesman, however, said the embassy had no information on the number of Canadian nationals aboard the flight or their whereabouts. Beijing Airport authorities said Lu's body temperature was normal when he arrived in Beijing, Kazinform cites Xinhuanet.