April 27. 2009

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The European Union is warning its millions of citizens against travel to the United States and Mexico, because of the swine flu outbreak that is escalating. The U.S. government has decried the announcement.

Swine flu prompts EU warning on travel to US

The top EU health official urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to parts of the United States and Mexico because of the swine flu virus.

A young man in Spain and two people in Scotland have come down with swine flu following trips to Mexico, health officials said, in what were the first cases reported outside North America. The World Health Organization said it is still awaiting official reports from the U.K. about the Scottish cases.

Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan said they would quarantine visitors showing symptoms of the virus amid a surging global concern about a possible pandemic...

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US calls EU travel warning unwarranted

The top US disease control official rejected as unwarranted Monday an EU warning that appeared to call on Europeans to avoid travel to the United States and Mexico due to the swine flu outbreak.

"At this point, I would not put out a travel restriction or recommendation against coming to the United States," said Richard Besser, acting head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Besser was responding to a statement earlier Monday by EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou recommending that Europeans avoid unnecessary travel to areas hit by the swine flu outbreak.

"Personally, I would try to avoid non-essential travel to the areas which are reported to be in the center of the cluster," she said...

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