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Monday, January 17, 2011

Egypt declares 598 confirmed H1N1 flu cases within week

Via Kuna :

" CAIRO, Jan 16 : Deaths due to H1N1 flu, better known as swine flu, hit 26 this week in Egypt with most of them of highly pathogenic cases, spokesman of the Ministry of Health Dr. Abdulrahman Shahin said here Sunday.

He added in a statement that those of chronic diseases and pregnant account for 75 percent of these highly pathogenic cases.Shahin added that the efforts made by the monitoring teams from Jan. 9 to Jan 15 led to detecting 598 cases of swine flu."

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