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On an American Airlines flight, thirty seven passengers and two flight attendants were detained for many hours for concerns about the swine flu.

The passengers who were on flight 169 from Los Angeles where taken into quarantine at a facility that is near Narita Airport where the concern took place. The passengers and crew members where finally released overnight after the test showed that none of them where contaminated with the new H1N1 influenza A strain, most commonly called the swine flu.

The main person that Narita Airport in Japan was afraid over was a ill Japanese woman who was returning from a vacation in Las Vegas. However, this woman and all the other people aboard flight 169 from Los Angeles did not have the swine flu.

Their have been several patients from Japan that have tested positive for a different strain of influenza A virus. However, their has not been one person in Japan that has tested positive for the swine flu yet. However, this does not mean that Japan is not on the alert. Japan happens to be one of the busiest travel areas this time of year. The country has promised that it will do whatever it can to keep the swine flu out of Japan. It will do this by doing many of the same things that other airports are doing. This is checking people who appear to be ill.

American Airlines understands the threat of the swine flu and why the crew members and the passengers had to be checked. This is the only defense that people have against the swine flu as of now.

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