WELLINGTON, New Zealand
(AP) - Japan and Taiwan prepared to send doctors aboard incoming flights
from North America to screen passengers for swine flu and China ordered
inspections of its pig farms, as Asian governments rushed Tuesday to try
to hold back the virus from the continent.New Zealand waited for final
test results on 10 high school students and teachers who officials say are
probably swine flu cases, and checked 56 other people for possible
infection. In South Korea, a 51-year-old woman was listed as a probable
case.
No cases of the deadly new virus have yet been confirmed in Asia or
Australasia, but officials held top-level meetings about how to respond to
a possible pandemic and some were preparing to open emergency stockpiles
of antiviral drugs.
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