Swine flu diagnosis confirmed in Guyanese patient

The Ministry of Public Health has received confirmation that a Guyanese patient who was hospitalised after displaying symptoms of swine flu has indeed been infected with the H1N1 virus which causes the disease.

The patient who was being treated at a private hospital has since been transferred by his family to a facility overseas.

According to Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton the patient who had returned to Guyana from China via the