Topic: Africa
Two more people in Egypt have tested positive for swine flu bringing the total number of those infected in the country to 10, the spokesman for the Health Ministry said Wednesday.Abdel Rahman Shahine said that the two new cases had recently returned ...
5 more Americans at unversity in Cairo have swine flu, Egypt health minister saysThe number of U.S. citizens infected with swine flu at the American University in Cairo rose to seven, after five more cases were diagnosed as positive Tuesday, the Egyptian ...
Five new cases of Americans infected with swine flu were discovered at a Cairo university dormitory on Tuesday, Egypt's health ministry said, bringing the total number of cases there to seven.The American University of Cairo (AUC) residence in the upscale neighbourhood of ...
Five new cases of swine flu infection were discovered at a Cairo campus dormitory on Tuesday, Egypt's health minister Hatem el-Gabali told state-news agency MENA.The American University of Cairo's campus residence in the upscale neighbourhood of Zamelek was quarantined on Monday after ...
An official from the Saudi Health Ministry has announced the country's second case of swine flu.Khaled al-Merghalani told the Associated Press Sunday that a Saudi student studying in the U.S. tested positive for the disease after landing in the western seaport of ...
A girl who had travelled from the United States has been confirmed as Egypt's first case of swine flu and also the first to be reported on the African continent.The 12-year-old with US and Egyptian nationality was quarantined by health workers at ...
The number of worldwide swine flu infections surged past 10,000 on Wednesday, as the epidemic gathered pace in the United States and the first case was recorded in Tokyo.The announcement in the Japanese capital that a 16-year-old high school girl had caught ...
Africa has so far been spared by the swine flu epidemic but veterinary and health officials are bracing for the deadly virus, fearing the continent could end up the worst hit.According to the World Health Organisation, A(H1N1) influenza has caused 1,500 infections ...
It is about a meningitis outbreak in Nigeria and the meningitis belt of Africa.. The World Health Organization reports that these Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A meningitis infections have been increasing since January, even as affected areas undergo a mass vaccination campaign..
African nations are scrambling to prevent swine flu from reaching a continent already struggling with the burden of AIDS and malaria, fearing an outbreak could wreak much more devastation than in North America or Europe.There have been no confirmed cases of the ...