NEW YORK — The swine flu virus continues spreading in New York City — closing more schools and showing up in a jail — while the disease also reached further into Asia among travelers returning from the U.S.
An assistant school principal in New York remained hospitalized in critical condition Saturday and an inmate who entered the city’s jail complex on Rikers Island about a month ago was diagnosed with swine flu Friday.
The city Department of Correction said that the flu hadn’t spread to other inmates in the 13,200 inmate system. The inmate came into contact with about 70 other prisoners.
The Rikers Island jail canceled weekend visits for those inmates and advised any other inmates’ family members who were feeling ill not to come, he said. Surgical masks were passed out to those inmates and officers on the two housing units.
Internationally, Malaysia, India and Turkey have reported their first cases, all involving people who had traveled from the U.S. They are in addition to the 36 other countries where the World Health Organization says more than 8,000 cases of the disease have been confirmed.
by the associated press
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