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BERLIN - A man who returned from Mexico with H1N1 flu passed the virus on to a fellow hospital patient as well as one of his nurses, the national disease control and prevention agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said Saturday.
The case took to six the number confirmed in Germany to have contracted the influenza A(H1N1) virus, two of whom had not travelled to Mexico.
The latest case reported Saturday, a 38-year-old man, shared a ward in the Bavaria hospital where the nurse was confirmed to have been infected on Friday.
Of the others, two are in Bavaria and one in Hamburg.
Announcing the case of the nurse who caught the disease from her patient on Friday, RKI official Joerg Hacker said, "We are not surprised that this has happened but of course we are concerned because it is the first time ... We must expect that there could be further cases of contraction like this in Germany."
Spain and Britain also each have one confirmed case of someone who caught the flu virus from a friend who had recently returned from Mexico, where the disease broke out and has killed 16 people.
- AFP /ls
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