Global Health Progress

Swine flu spread to eastern Japan in an outbreak that’s infected more than 10,000 people worldwide.

Two students were confirmed as the first cases of the virus known as H1N1 in the Tokyo area after returning from a school trip to New York, government officials said. Infections in Japan have been concentrated in the western prefectures of Osaka and Hyogo and total 283 since the first case was detected in Japan earlier this month, the health ministry said today.

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