Topic: Africa
Children stop their game of marbles and scatter as rubbish-laden trucks trundle up their dusty street, swarming with flies and grinding dead vermin beneath their wheels. The sight -- and smell -- is all too familiar in Zarayib, meaning "the Sties", a ...
Mexican officials said Wednesday they have confirmed the first mutation of the A(H1N1) flu virus in a girl who survived the infection. Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told Mexican journalists that the case was the first confirmed mutation of the swine flu ...
Many more people could become sick with swine flu this winter even though it has peaked in North America and some European countries, the head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The worst of the swine flu outbreak is over in ...
Swine flu has killed four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, health authorities said on Saturday only a few days before the massive Muslim gathering reaches its peak. An Indian man, a Moroccan woman and a Sudanese man -- all ...
Four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage have died of swine flu, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency on Saturday. It said a Moroccan woman, a Sudanese man and an Indian ...
A nine-year-old American girl has become the first case of swine flu in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, Health Minister Babatunde Osotimehin said Wednesday. "The first case of the influenza A(H1N1), otherwise called swine flu, has been reported in Nigeria of a ...
At least 4,735 people have died from swine flu infections since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said Friday. This is an increase of 210 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,525 deaths were recorded, the ...
Egypt on Thursday announced the closure of a Christian school in Cairo because of swine flu, the education system's first casualty of the (A)H1N1 virus. The College of the Mother of God will close for two weeks following the discovery of three ...
At least 4,525 people have died from swine flu infections since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said Friday. This is an increase of 417 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,108 deaths were recorded, the ...
Egypt on Friday reported the third swine flu-related death in the country, where over 1,000 cases of the disease have been reported. A 23-year-old woman from the Giza province died of the A(H1N1) virus, bringing to three the number of deaths since ...
