With their season over, members of the Anaheim Ducks’ AHL affiliate are being restricted from returning home by their home country. Petri Kontiola and Petteri Wirtanen, both trying to return to Finland for the offseason, have been placed in quarantine in Helsinki after arriving at the airport amid concerns over swine flu.
The two forwards were singled out as Europe tightens it’s borders to prevent against the spread of the deadly strain of influenza. It is a metastasized version of the virus that typically orginates in hogs but is now an airborne virus transferable among humans. While the virus hasn’t spread among the United States, several European nations have instituted travel restrictions to all of North America.
Officials with Kontiola and Wirtanen’s team, the Iowa Chops suggest that this is a simple mixup and that the players are healthy. Members of teams named after a pig are no more susceptable than anyone else. More on this as it develops.
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