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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Asia still swine flu-free; New Zealand lowers toll By RAY LILLEY,Associated Press Writer AP - Friday, May 1 WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Asia stayed on high alert but free of confirmed swine flu cases Thursday, while nearby New Zealand _ the only country in the region to confirm the disease _ wound back its number of suspected infections. ADVERTISEMENT Governments kept up strict health checks on travelers arriving from North America that were rushed into place this week as the disease spread quickly from Mexico. "We must not be complacent. We must raise our alert, vigilance against any impending threats of the pandemic," Hong Kong's health chief York Chow told reporters in the Chinese territory. Switzerland on Thursday became the latest country to report a swine flu infection, with cases already confirmed in Canada, Britain, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Germany and Austria. Swine flu is believed to have killed 160 people and sickened thousands more in Mexico, while a 23-month-old child in Texas became the first U.S. fatality. The World Health Organization raised its alert level to the second-highest on its threat scale, indicating a pandemic could be imminent. New Zealand Health Minister Tony Ryall said one traveler who a day earlier was assessed as having swine flu had been removed from the list after further checks showed that person had not been exposed to a high-risk area or to people likely infected with the virus. Laboratory tests have confirmed three people have the same virus that is infecting Mexico. In addition, Ryall said the government was counting 13 other people as probable cases. Twelve of the total cases were students and teachers in a high school group that returned from Mexico last weekend, and another was also aboard their connecting flight from Los Angeles. Testing for swine flu was under way for an additional 104 people who have symptoms. Asia, so far, has escaped infection though South Korea says it has one probable case, with final test results still coming. Officials in South Korea, Hong Kong and Australia are testing scores of people with flu symptoms. Hong Kong is testing a flight attendant with flu-like symptoms recently in contact with Mexicans. Preliminary tests for swine flu have been negative, but health officials will run more tests to confirm that, Hospital Authority chief executive Shane Solomon told reporters Thursday. So far, health authorities in Hong Kong tested nine people who have developed flu-like symptoms after traveling to North America, and eight cases have been cleared. Health authorities in South Korea cleared 12 people who were being monitored for possible swine flu, but were still running tests on four more. In most places, people reporting fever, coughs and aches were being given antiviral drugs like Tamiflu that appear to be effective against swine flu and told to stay home. Peter Cordingley, spokesman for WHO's Western Pacific region that includes Asia, said the region's large stockpile of Tamiflu would not be enough in a "worst-case" scenario. "There are vast quantities of Tamiflu in this region, but we don't think they are going to be enough if this is a worst-case scenario," he told AP Television News in Manila. He did not say what the worst-case scenario was. "WHO is now talking to the manufacturers to increase output, but even then we don't think there is going to be enough Tamiflu. It is just the reality of the numbers against manufacturing." Major international carrier Cathay Pacific Airways declined a request to let cabin staff wear masks and gloves on flights as a precaution against swine flu, saying the WHO recommended such measures only for dealing with sick people. The workers' union bristled. "There are hundreds of people in a plane. We have no clue who might have infectious diseases," said Becky Kwan, chairwoman of the Flight Attendants' Union. "What is wrong with wearing masks? It helps reduce direct contacts." Indonesia responded to WHO's decision to raise its alert level by issuing a travel warning to Mexico and advising citizens against traveling to other countries with confirmed human cases. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations said it would call an urgent meeting of regional health ministers in early May to discuss the crisis, but stopped short of convening a summit of leaders, as suggested by Cambodia's leader. "We need common measures to prevent and fight against the fast spread of swine flu," Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said. "Southeast Asian leaders should have an emergency meeting right now." ASEAN says it is ready to quickly tap its emergency stockpile of 1 million courses of Tamiflu and Relenza. Other countries were readying their own stockpiles of the antiviral drugs. In Australia, the government gave health authorities wide powers to contain contagious diseases and on Thursday began rolling out thermal scanners at major airports to screen travelers for fever. The devices were in place in several Asian countries, and doctors were board arriving flights in Japan and Taiwan. China has boosted stockpiles of anti-viral flu drugs such as Tamiflu and has the production capacity to meet domestic demand if there is an outbreak, the country's health minister, Chen Zhu, told reporters Thursday. He did not provide details. The country began increasing supplies several years ago to deal with periodic human cases of avian flu. Meanwhile, China, which has been criticized in the past for a lack of openness in handling medical crises, adamantly rejected foreign media reports that swine flu originated there. "Their attempts to confuse right and wrong and to create disturbances are aimed at undermining China's global reputation," Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an said. ___ Associated Press staffers Gillian Wong and Tini Tran in Beijing, Joeal Calupitan in Manila, Rohan Sullivan in Sydney, Dikky Sinn in Hong Kong, Grant Peck in Bangkok and Jae-soon Chang in Seoul contributed to this report. 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