Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has contracted the AH1N1 flu virus, government health officials confirmed on Sunday.

While in the northwestern city of Medellin, presidential press secretary Cesar Mauricio Velasquez read a government communique in which it was announced that Uribe has swine flu, in Bogota officials with the National Health Institute, or INS, confirmed the diagnosis.

According to the various sources, Uribe began showing symptoms of being ill on Friday the 28th when he returned from the Unasur Summit held in the Argentine city of Bariloche, but – they said – he must have become infected some days prior to that.

The symptoms worsened on Saturday when Uribe headed a government community council in the eastern town of Puerto Carreño and had to get medical attention.

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