Calif. students cleared from Chinese quarantine

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A group of California students and teachers was released Thursday after being quarantined for a week in China because some of their classmates tested positive for swine flu, a school spokeswoman said.

The 26 ninth graders and five teachers who had been held in a hotel in Yichang for a week were released, in addition to three students and a teacher who were in a hospital but tested negative for swine flu, Caroline Callaway, a spokeswoman for the private Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, said in a statement.

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