Topic: West Africa

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 pilgrim deaths from swine flu ahead of hajj

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 ...

US girl becomes Nigeria's first swine flu case

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 ...

Nigeria allays fears over outbreak of swine flu

Nigeria's health authorities on Tuesday claimed they were ready to cope with an outbreak of swine flu in the oil-rich west African country of 140 million inhabitants. "The federal government is fully prepared to contain any outbreak of swine flu in the ...