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China’s actions, especially quarantines of foreign visitors, brought criticism abroad, but health officials say the spread of H1N1 may have been slowed.

Travelers to China who display flu-like symptoms may be randomly quarantined over concerns of the swine flu virus, the U.S. State Department warned.

The mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, has been quarantined in China after possible exposure to the H1N1 virus, his office said Sunday.

A 30-year-old male student enrolled in the United States has been confirmed as China's second H1N1, or swine flu, case, and its first on the mainland, according to the information office of the Chinese Health Ministry.

Chinese health authorities have quarantined 164 of the 189 passengers and crew members aboard a flight from Mexico to Shanghai that carried a man now ill with the A/H1N1 flu virus.