The suspect, an Italian tourist, was found to have a fever of 38.5 degrees Celsius and symptoms of a sore throat, stuffy nose and sweating at entry into Zham town, Xigaze, last Saturday and was then sent to the hospital. The 23 other tourists remained under medical observation in Caiyuan Hotel since then. Tibet Autonomous Region lifted the quarantine on the Italian tourist, previously suspected of having A/H1N1 influenza, was confirmed to have just an "seasonal flu" and lifted the quarantine Wednesday.

Sound bite: Australian tourist, Sain It's cool, you know. We sang, watch video and sang, got to make it with someone we traveling with cause it was the first time we met them. It was painful but it was the best of the best situation.

Sound bite: Ourist, Vlad We were provided with Chinese food. It was rice and some vegetables. One day, they provided us pasta and something else.

Sound bite: American tourist, Jessical Vicci The food is fine. They gave us three meals. It was not being in a prison. They gave us the best they could absolutely. The stuff is sweet, very very sweet. We are just very happy. The woman who is detained is just fine. She doesn't have swine flu, so that's also very encouraging. We all at the end really worked out quite well.

Sound bite: American tourist, Gazarian We realized that the swine flu is very dangerous, and the government had to take big measures to protect us, your citizens and the rest of the world. So they need to quarantine until we do the test.

Members of the tour group were from 12 countries including the United States, Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Denmark, Japan, Ukraine, Australia and Singapore.

During their first day tour, they chose Xigaze region, one of the hottest tourist areas in Tibet, as their first stop, and paid visits to ancient temple relics including Tashihunpo Monastery and Parlkor Monastery Thursday.

(Xinhua News Agency May 24, 2009)