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    Just heard from my brother-in-law that the Fourth Engineer on his ship has been taken to hospital with swine flu. He works for the Hong Kong container ship company OOCL so everybody else onboard is Chinese.

    They had all just joined a newbuilding in Korea. The Koreans took their temperatures on arrival and also made a note of their mobile phone numbers.

    Would imagine that swine flu could spread very quickly through the small crew on a boxboat. Would not like to think what would happen if the ship were in the middle of the Pacific at the time.

    On his last ship they were not allowed shore leave due to the possibility of contracting swine flu on a voyage from the Far East to Italy then the East Coast of the USA and return, and were ready to mutiny!

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