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Woman, son brought back to hospital

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

NEW DELHI: The drama surrounding the mother-son duo who tested positive for A(H1N1), last week and refused to take treatment at a government hospital here ended on Friday with the Delhi Health Department invoking the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1879, and escorting the two to the Airport Health Organisation facility, where they were quarantined.

The 35-year-old man who arrived from New York on June 2 and his mother, who caught the infection from him, had refused medical assistance and opted to stay at their Rajokri farmhouse on the outskirts of the capital under “home quarantine.”

The capital has reported five cases of swine flu till Friday. Assuring the public that the situation was under control and that the duo were quarantined, State Health Minister Kiran Walia said: “This was a rare case where we had to use force, otherwise people have been cooperating with the health officials in tackling the flu.”

Corrections and Clarifications:

It is the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and not 1879, as said in the first paragraph of a report "Woman, son brought back to hospital" (June 13, 2009).

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