The family is an 87-year-old man who died from bird flu on 4 March, along with one of his sons who died of pneumonia who tested negative for the virus.

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And in Israel, doctors are running tests on a man who recently returned from Mexico with light flu symptoms.

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Hong Kong's South China Morning Post says there is still hope in battling the deadly bird flu as a 67-year-old man in Hangzhou and a four-year-old boy in Shanghai are both recovering from the virus.

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An NHS spokesman said the two new swine flu cases in London - a 23-year-old man from Islington and a 29-year-old man from Westminster - were also being successfully treated at home.

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The man stays home from work again the next day, claiming to have the flu.

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China suspended flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived in Shanghai from Mexico City on April 30 became China's first confirmed case of swine flu.

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