On the afternoon of May 10th, the Ministry of Health received a report from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Health that a fever case was found in the Sichuan People's Hospital. According to clinical manifestations and laboratory test results, the case was preliminarily diagnosed as a suspected case of type A H1N1 influenza. Currently, the patient has been transferred to Chengdu Infectious Disease Hospital for isolation treatment, and those who had close contact with him during his medical visits have also been placed under medical observation.
The patient, Mr. Bao, male, 30 years old, is currently studying at a university in the United States. The patient departed from St. Louis on May 7th via St. Paul to Tokyo, Japan, and then took flight NW029 from Tokyo, arriving at Beijing Capital International Airport at 1:30 AM on May 9th. He then flew out of Beijing at 10:50 AM the same day, taking flight U8882 of Sichuan Airlines, and arrived in Chengdu at 1:17 PM.