Topic: Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) - A resurgent H1N1 swine flu virus has infected 1,172 people in Egypt and killed 56 since October 8, a Ministry of Health official said on Monday.The virus has infected 16,373 people, of whom 281 died, since it was first ...
When the pamphlet of man's deadliest disease is tabulated. Swine flu may be a fast-spreading outbreak, however to exaggerate the story and dogmatically dubbed it as "deadly", "lethal", and "malignant" is well adding fear to an overly scared humanity. Of these deaths ...
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 shanty-town ...
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 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 swine ...
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" ...
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 ...
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