Athens - Greece on Monday confirmed its first case of swine flu after a 19-year-old student who recently returned from the United States was hospitalised with strains of the virus, health officials said. Deputy Health Minister Giorgos Papagiorgos confirmed the case after a second test was conducted on the student who returned from New York on Saturday.
The young man was being treated at Seismanoglou Hospital in Athens and officials said precautionary tests would be conducted on the other passengers on the plane travelling to Greece with the student.
He was first taken to the hospital by his father in the early hours Monday after experiencing a cough and high fever.
After initial tests were conducted, he was told to return home but was later taken by ambulance to Seismanoglou after the second test came out positive, showing he had swine flu.
