Washington, Apr. 27: According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Obama around the city''s anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".

According to The Independent, Solis met the President at a gala dinner which was held at the museum on April 16, before Obama travelled onto the Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

On Sunday, the museum was shut, in common with most public attractions in Mexico City, and the nation''s Health Minister confirmed that Solis had died of pneumonia – but that it was not thought he had contracted swine flu.

In the US, the White House said that the President''s doctors had given him an all clear. (ANI)