Cyprus' health minister confirmed the island's first case of swine flu Saturday, in a woman who recently returned from the United States.
Christos Patsalides said the 39-year-old woman, a foreign national who is married to a Cypriot and lives on the island, is in relatively good health.
He said she is being given the appropriate medication at a special unit that was set up to handle such cases at Limassol General Hospital on the island's southern coast.
Patsalides said he considered this an isolated case.
The health minister said the woman developed flu-like symptoms May 29, a day after arriving from New York via London.
She went to Limassol Hospital after being told the children of the family with whom she stayed in the U.S. had been diagnosed with swine flu. Patsalides did not know where in the U.S. the host family lived.
He said authorities have contacted people who have been in close contact with the woman, including passengers who were on the plane with her, and have given them given medication proactively.
He said one other person who was on the aircraft has developed flu-like symptoms which are being investigated.
"There is no reason for unnecessary concern," Patsalides said.
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