Earlier on Monday, the European Union's health commissioner on urged Europeans to avoid traveling to the United States or Mexico if doing so was not essential. The warning came as health officials in Spain confirmed that a man hospitalized in eastern Spain had tested positive for swine flu, becoming what appeared to be Europe's first case of the disease. Health authorities were also testing 17 other suspected cases across Spain, a major hub for travel between Mexico and Europe. Britain and other European Union nations had already issued travel advisories for those traveling to Mexico, but the European Union's health commissioner went a step further on Monday in urging Europeans to avoid nonessential trips. Europeans, she told reporters in Luxembourg, "should avoid traveling to Mexico or the United States of America unless it is very urgent for them." The fear that outbreaks of the flu might severely curtail travel was enough to unnerve markets in Europe and Asia, sending stocks tumbling, particularly shares of airlines and other companies in the travel industry.
The warning came as health officials in Spain confirmed that a man hospitalized in eastern Spain had tested positive for swine flu, becoming what appeared to be Europe's first case of the disease. Health authorities were also testing 17 other suspected cases across Spain, a major hub for travel between Mexico and Europe.
Britain and other European Union nations had already issued travel advisories for those traveling to Mexico, but the European Union's health commissioner went a step further on Monday in urging Europeans to avoid nonessential trips. Europeans, she told reporters in Luxembourg, "should avoid traveling to Mexico or the United States of America unless it is very urgent for them."
The fear that outbreaks of the flu might severely curtail travel was enough to unnerve markets in Europe and Asia, sending stocks tumbling, particularly shares of airlines and other companies in the travel industry.
I've returned from a fun weekend to find even sensible newspapers all but screaming "We're all gonna die !!". Just watched the TV news and the reporter was positively salivating at the prospect of reporting on the death, disease, famine etc to come. Genuinely disgusting. keep to the Fen Causeway
