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WDSU New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who traveled on Friday to Shanghai, China, on an economic development trip, was informed early Sunday that a passenger on the airplane in which he was traveling was confirmed to have signs and symptoms of an influenza-like illness, suspected to be of the H1N1 — or swine flu — subtype. As a precaution, Nagin, his wife and one member of the mayor’s executive protection unit have been placed in a designated quarantine location in Shanghai. The mayor’s agenda is on indefinite hold, though he and the others are symptom-free. My first thought was “Please, keep him.” Nagin represents everything that went wrong with Hurricane Katrina. Previous in series Next in seriesTable of contents for Swine flu outbreak 2009Swine Flu OutbreakWHO Press Release on Swine FluNew Swine … Read entire article »