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Sky News is reporting AP news reports the man has now tested positive for H5N1

Suspected bird flu on Reunion Island

From: Agence France-Presse

By Idriss Issa in Saint Denis De La Reunion, Reunion Island
October 27, 2005

A 43-year-old Frenchman recently returned to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion from a trip to Thailand is feared to be infected with the potentially lethal bird flu virus, according to preliminary tests, authorities said.

Conclusive results from tests being carried out in Paris will be known "before the end of the week," the government administrator's office on the French island said in a statement.
A doctor at the Bellepierre hospital in the island's main city of Saint Denis which is treating the man and keeping him under quarantine said he was believed to have been exposed to the virus during a trip to a bird park in Thailand during a vacation taken October 12-19.

Authorities said the man was admitted to hospital suffering weakness and headaches.

Medical staff, concerned when he started coughing, took nose and throat samples to test for the strain of the H5N1 flu virus that has killed more than 60 people in Asia since late 2003.