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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has the swine flu but is doing well, his spokesman said Sunday, just days after the leader returned from a regional summit in Argentina. Deaths from swine flu in Latin America -- the worst-hit region in the world -- rose to over 1,300 this month. Uribe, a conservative staunch US ally, began to suffer from symptoms of the flu on Saturday after returning from a summit meeting in Argentina, so he had a checkup which confirmed he had the A(H1N1) virus, according to a statement read out by his spokesman Cesar Velasquez. The president is continuing to work, and he will be in quarantine for some time as he recovers, the statement added, noting that Uribe was doing well and was working out of his ranch in Rionegro, in the country's northwest. To date 34 people have died of the flu in Colombia, official data show. A total of 621 infections have been confirmed.
