The World Health Organisation in Geneva does not recommend travel restrictions or border closures as a result of the spreading swine flu outbreak.

Spokesman Gregory Hartl told a news conference in Geneva “The WHO does not recommend any travel restrictions or border closures”, noting that infected people may not show symptoms at the airport or when they reach a border crossing.

Rather Hartl opined “Certainly if you feel that you are ill you should not travel, in any case, to anywhere.”