Topic: Africa
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 man ...
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 UN ...
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 swine ...
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 UN ...
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 the ...
said a weary Marzouka Beshir, pointing to a pile of rubbish rotting under the blazing sun in Imbaba, a working class neighbourhood in Cairo.In their overcrowded areas, overflowing with litter, many like this 52-year-old Egyptian woman, have trouble coming to grips with ...
Egypt has ordered foreign schools and universities to close until October 3 over worries about swine flu, with local schools having already been told to delay opening until then, a health ministry official said on Wednesday.Egyptian universities and schools had been set ...
An Egyptian woman has died of swine flu in the second death related to the A(H1N1) virus since July, state television reported on Sunday. "The health ministry has announced the second death due to swine flu in a 25-year-old woman from Dahaqliya" ...
Gallery: WILL swine flu virus turn nasty as the northern hemisphere winter gets under way? They know that if 2009 H1N1 flu does become more lethal over the next few months, we will be nearly defenceless: there are already signs of resistance ...
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