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Swine flu sneaks into Bangladesh
Pandemic swine flu slipped into Bangladesh as health authorities confirmed the first case yesterday, saying a 19-year-old student was quarantined in the city after a trip to the United States.
"His samples have tested positive for influenza A/H1N1," the Health Minister Prof Dr AFM Ruhul Huq told The Independent over phone without naming the patient.
Bangladeshi immigration officers wearing protective masks at Zia International Airport in Dhaka in April 2009. Bangladeshi health authorities said Friday the country's first case of swine flu had been detected in a passenger who had returned home after studying in the United States.
(AFP/File/Munir Uz Zaman)
Bangladeshi media celebrities take part in a gathering in Cox's Bazar June 19, 2009. Thousands of people gathered on Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar beachfront on Friday with placards and banners calling for the country to change politically, morally and socially.
REUTERS/Stringer (BANGLADESH SOCIETY POLITICS)
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Muslims activists of the Majlis Bachau Tahreek (MBT) burn an effigy of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for allegedly making comments about the Prophet Mohammad that hurt religious sentiments, in Hyderabad, India, Friday, June 19, 2009.
(AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
This NASA file image taken by the Galileo spacecraft shows the Moon. NASA blasted two probes into space Thursday on a landmark lunar exploration mission to scout water sources and landing sites in anticipation of sending mankind back to the moon in 2020.
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Makeshift camp : A Pakistani internally displaced man (L), fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley, takes tea at a makeshift camp in Mardan.
(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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