Mayor Nagin Released From Quarantine

2009-6-11 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been released from quarantine in Shanghai, a spokesperson for the mayor said yesterday.

Nagin, his wife, and one of his guards had been held here since Sunday after two passengers on their flight from New Jersey were found to have swine flu. Nagin left Shanghai for the second leg of an overseas trip with speeches in Australia.

No mutation in flu virus so far

SHANGHAI researchers who decoded the genetic structure of the swine flu virus in two local patients have concluded that no major mutations have taken place during its journey from other parts of the world. The...