WEST BEND - Travel plans have changed for
a group of Japanese exchange students and their chaperones.
A recent wave of new confirmations in the number of
influenza A (H1N1) cases in Japan has prompted the
government to order the closure of schools and the
cancellation of all international student travel in and out
of the country.
Twenty students and four chaperones from Aisho-cho,
Shiga, Japan, West Bend's sister city, were scheduled to
make a week-long trip to the city in early August.
Nobi Sacia of West Bend, who is involved in the sister
city project, received the disappointing news from the mayor
of Aisho-cho.
"He called me twice; one was the day before they
were going to have a meeting to let us know what was going
on, and then the next day he called and told us that the
trip was going to be cancelled," Sacia said in a
telephone interview Tuesday.
As of Tuesday, the World Health Organization an-nounced
that 46 countries have officially reported 12,954 cases of
influenza A (H1N1), including 92 deaths.
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