The White House has insisted that President Barack Obama's health was "never in danger" despite visiting Mexico during the swine flu outbreak and meeting a man who died a day later.
The president's spokesman was barraged with media questions following reports that Felipe Solis, an archaeologist who showed Mr Obama around Mexico City's anthropology museum earlier this month, died the next day of "flu-like symptoms".
Mr Obama visited Mexico on April 16 and 17, at least four days after the beginning of the outbreak of highly contagious swine flu.
"The president's health was never in danger," said Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary who said he had talked to Mr Obama's doctors.
Neither "the president nor anybody that I know of traveling with him in either governmental or press capacity has shown any symptoms that would denote cause for any concern," he said.
The White House later issued a statement from Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for Mexico's embassy in Washington, saying Mr Solis "died of complications of a pre-existing condition and not of swine flu."
Mr Obama has reassured Americans that the swine flu outbreak is " not a cause for alarm" despite the small but rising number of cases in the United States.
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