Mayor Ray Nagin in quarantine after swine-flu scare on Chinese flight

NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Ray Nagin is in quarantine in China as a precautionary measure after it was found that someone he was sitting near to on a plane was showing symptoms of the H1N1-flu virus, also known as swine flu.
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The announcement came in a press conference on Sunday. Nagin is currently in a designated quarantine location in Shanghai, and he remains symptom free. Nagin, however, hasn’t been tested for the virus, according to Nagin administration spokeswoman Nagin administration spokeswoman Ceeon D. Quiett.

Nagin’s wife and one member of his executive protection unit were also quarantined, Quiett said.

Quiett said Nagin is being treated with the “utmost courtesy by Chinese officials.”

Nagin is scheduled to travel to Sydney, Australia, where he is to deliver a keynote address on climate change. Quiett said it’s not yet known if those plans will be halted or changed.