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H1N1 Boots HK Soccer Players In Singapore

HONG Kong's soccer players have become the second team at the Asian Youth Games in Singapore to be quarantined after three players came down with swine flu, Singapore's health minister said yesterday. A young... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Mon, Jun 22 2009

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