GREECE has reported three new cases of people diagnosed with Swine Flu, including two recently arrived Greek Australians.
The number of people diagnosed with swine flu in Greece reached 75 on Friday after another three people tested positive for the virus, Greek health authorities said.
The three new cases diagnosed were a 14-year-old Greek Australian boy, a 43-year-old Greek Australian woman and a 26-year-old Greek man who recently returned to Athens from the USA.
According to Greece’s Health Minister, Dimitris Avramopoulos, 87 per cent of the people tested positive for the virus are visitors from overseas, mainly from USA and Australia.
Health authorities told Neos Kosmos English Edition (NKEE) that in particular the ones from Australia are young people and most of them of Greek origin from Melbourne who are visiting Greece for their summer holiday.
The same sources revealed that Greek authorities pay particular attention to visitors from Australia since there has been a huge outbreak of the highly infectious virus there, particularly in Victoria.
If you are traveling in Greece, or anywhere right now, be sure to have with you any phone numbers you need to contact your own health insurance providers.
You may also want additional protection via travel insurance.
In the unlikely event that a traveler falls ill from swine flu or any other ailment, many higher-end travel insurance policies have help lines which can assist you through the process of getting medical treatment.