Africa - Facts About H1N1

Egypt is to order five million doses of swine flu vaccine, Deputy Health Minister Nasser al-Sayyed told AFP on Friday, sufficient to immunise 2.5 million of Egypt's nearly 80 million population. "Egypt will buy five million doses as soon as the vaccine ...

South African health authorities on Monday announced the death of a 22-year-old student who tested positive for swine flu, the first fatal victim of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa. "He died on the 28th, but there had to be some testing done ...

Saudi Arabia is likely to ban the elderly and children from the hajj this year to limit the risk of swine flu, but this will not change country quotas for the pilgrimage, a health official said on Saturday.Dr. Khaled Marghlani, spokesman for ...

Arab health ministers agreed on Wednesday to ban certain people including the elderly and young children from pilgrimage to Mecca in an effort to contain the spread of swine flu. "Hajj and umrah will continue with some conditions," Ibrahim al-Kerdani, World Health ...

Some Muslim countries are advising pregnant women not to attend the hajj pilgrimage. China is quarantining any visitor suspected of having a fever, while priests in New Zealand have been banned from placing Communion wafers on worshippers' tongues.It's all part of a ...

Egypt has confirmed the first swine flu case in an Egyptian returning from Saudi Arabia after performing the Muslim pilgrimage, a newspaper reported on Thursday.The 28-year-old man was found to have contracted the A(H1N1) virus during Umra, or lesser pilgrimmage, to Mecca, ...

Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported Tuesday their first cases of swine flu, all in arrivals from abroad, widening the scope of the disease across a region that had once been largely free of the virus.Together with new cases reported in several other ...

Egypt reported three new cases of swine flu on Saturday, as two children and a Colombian woman tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus, bringing to 18 the total.A health ministry official told state news agency Mena the new cases were a 45-year-old ...

An 18-month-old boy tested positive for swine flu in Egypt on Thursday, the state news agency MENA reported, as the World Health Organisation told diplomats it was officially declaring a pandemic.The dual US and Egyptian citizen arrived in Cairo from the United ...

Two more cases of swine flu were reported in Egypt on Wednesday, a day after five Americans tested positive for the disease in a Cairo campus residence, health ministry officials said.One case was reported in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the ...

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Topic: Africa

Egypt to order five million doses of flu vaccine

S. Africa registers first swine flu death

No change to hajj quotas with flu curbs: Riyadh

Arab health ministers to ban elderly, young from pilgrimage

Global health officials mull how to slow swine flu

Egypt reports first swine flu case in Mecca pilgrim

More Mideast states report first swine flu cases

Egypt swine flu cases rise to 18

Toddler latest swine flu case in Egypt

Egypt reports two more swine flu cases

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