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People have been urged not to travel to Mexico as senior officials hold emergency talks over the deadly outbreak of swine flu.The European Union's health commissioner, Andorra Vassiliou, advised people to postpone their travel plans unless "it is very urgent for them".It came as Spain announced Europe's first confirmed case of the virus and Sky sources revealed a Canadian woman in the UK is also suspected of infection.Spanish officials said a young man who returned from a trip to Mexico last week was found to have the virus.The unnamed man returned to Spain on April 22 and was put under observation on April 25 with chest problems, Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said.Around 20 other patients are under observation, officials added."They are all stable, none of the cases is grave, not even that of the case confirmed (as swine flu)," Ms Jimenez said."These are people who have recently been on trips to Mexico," she said, adding that Spain had sufficient doses stored of antiviral medicine.Governments around the world are moving to contain the outbreak amid growing fears of pandemic.The number believed to be infected in Mexico topped 1,600 as the death toll in the country reached 103.In the US, the number of confirmed swine flu cases doubled to 40, while Canada has six confirmed cases.In Hong Kong, a woman was being tested for the virus as two others were declared free of infection, a health official said.Possible cases were also reported as far afield as Israel and New Zealand.Fearing another setback for the fragile world economy, markets reacted nervously to the outbreak, which has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to activate its 24-hour "war room" command center.Around 400 of those infected in Mexico are still in hospital, but the majority of infected patients are recovering, the country's health secretary said.The outbreak has brought the Mexican capital to a virtual standstill, as fear grips residents of one of the most crowded cities in the world."It's like a ghost town," journalist James Blears told Sky News.Meanwhile in Britain, the Government held emergency talks as tests were continuing to assess two people who were admitted to a Scottish hospital with "flu-like" symptoms after returning from Mexico.No cases of swine flu, a human strain of a virus usually associated with pigs, have so far been confirmed in Britain.However, the WHO has declared the flu a "public health emergency of international concern".The World Bank has announced a £140m loan to help Mexico fight the virus, including £17m available immediately in order to "get medicines and medical equipment to detect and diagnose" the virus outbreak, said Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens.The Department of Health said it had stepped up surveillance arrangements, adding that the UK has enough antiviral stocks to provide treatment for 50% of the population should they become ill.And in the US, authorities are taking a twin-track approach to deal with the outbreak that has spread from across the border."They're trying to reassure people that everything that can be done is being done," said Sky's US correspondent Greg Milam."They're also trying to make sure people understand there could be a much greater spread of this virus, and that it may bring fatalities."So far, the only reported deaths from the infection have been in Mexico, while the cases in the US appear to be milder."It's possible that the US infections are among younger people - whereas it's young adults who are more vulnerable," reported Milam."That's something which worries scientists because they know the pandemic of 1918 affected largely those in the young adult population."It's one of the many things worrying doctors - and why there is such a rush to get some answers."
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