<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This just in on Samak's illness -- It's not Lao fish, it's just a virus: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">[Bangkok Post]</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><div style="text-decoration: underline;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">BREAKING NEWS</font></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Update: Samak has flu, hospitalised 'a few days'</font></span></font></b></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">(BangkokPost.com) - Doctors at Bumrungrad Hospital, where Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was admitted on Tuesday morning, said the premier has influenza.</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Mr Samak is advised to remain in hospital for a few more days. No visitors are allowed.</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Earlier reports said Mr Samak had food poisoning after eating fermented fish at an outdoor market in Vientiane, Laos, on Monday.</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">He was taken to the hospital on Tuesday morning, and all work schedules were cancelled for the rest of the day.</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">The cabinet held its weekly meeting without him. Deputy Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat chaired the meeting. 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