The Health department took prompt action. Family members with close contact were quarantined at home. They were given a prophylactic course of Oseltamivir. Adequate supplies of food and provisions and maintenance of phone communiwww.e-shaw.org cation was confirmed. The public health department dealt with general queries from the public. Official release of information and contact with the WHO was through the federal Ministry of Health. The airline that transported the case from Canada to the UAE sought to contact passengers in the rows adjacent to the passenger's allocated seat. None of those who were traced developed any flu-like illness within the incubation period following the timing of the flight.