Graz, 2009-07-03, 22:05 – Dur­ing the Rob­oCup Ban­quette, the organ­isers of the Rob­oCup World Cham­pi­on­ships 2009 con­firmed that a mem­ber of a Rob­oCup team was infec­ted with the swine flu virus A/H1N1. The nev­er­the­less didn’t give any more con­crete or spe­cific inform­a­tion (pre­sum­ably in order to keep the situ­ation calm). Accord­ing to them, the team has been isol­ated, is under med­ical super­vi­sion, and the Rob­oCup World Cham­pi­on­ships will go on as planned. The ORF has pub­lished an art­icle on this topic as well.

There is no reason to be con­cerned. The respons­ible author­ity has made and cares about all the neces­sary arrangements.

They provided a let­ter with inform­a­tion on how to behave and how to identify a flu infec­tion. I’ve attached the let­ter we got (in Ger­man only).

Mex­ican Flu at Rob­oCup 2009

Update 22:42: A more real­istic view on this new situ­ation, this time in Eng­lish, is shown below:

redund­ant present­ing the flu instructions