(For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click [nFLU]) BEIJING, May 2 (Reuters) - China has suspended flights to Mexico after Hong Kong authorities confirmed a Mexican traveller who transited through the Chinese mainland had the new H1N1 flu, the government said on Saturday. The 25-year-old Mexican is being treated in Hong Kong, where he arrived on Thursday after a stopover in Shanghai. China's Ministry of Health has asked local authorities to quarantine all passengers who were on the Mexicana Airlines flight that landed in Shanghai and also those who flew with the man from Shanghai to Hong Kong on China Eastern airlines. Mexicana Airlines flies between Mexico and Shanghai. No Chinese airlines fly to Mexico. China this week vowed to disclose any human cases of the new fever promptly, while state-run newspapers have urged officials to be open and avoid the kind of cover-ups that brought panic during the SARS epidemic in 2003. The SARS virus killed hundreds in the mainland and Hong Kong. But back then Chinese officials hid the growing toll from "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome" from the public for weeks before spreading deaths and rumours forced the government to reveal the epidemic, apologise and vow full candour in future disease outbreaks. (Reporting by Chen Aizhu, Editing by Dean Yates)
Chinese health inspectors and officials step off an AeroMexico aircraft, identified as the aircraft which carried a man infected with the influenza (H1N1) virus (formerly referred to as swine flu), after ...
