Monday, February 8, 2010

Egypt: Information Center: discover 18 new outbreak of swine flu

[The title says bird flu - but they mean swine flu]
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 18:35

Dubai Chamber of crises, the central information center in the Council of Ministers, in a statement today, the discovery of 18 focus of the recent avian influenza virus in the provinces of the Republic, of which 15 are the focus of rural education and 3 wells in farms, saying it was culling sick and disposal of health.

She noted that the Ministry of Education confirmed that the measures taken by the face of influenza virus A (H1N1) continues to school following the completion of a vacation mid-school year, pending the issuance of instructions from the Ministry of Health authorities in this subject, as it was emphasized that the holiday period will be used to re-equip schools and disinfected before the start of the second semester.

The statement emphasized that there are some countries where there have been a second wave of avian influenza A (H1N1), such as the United States, Canada, England and France, and the virus was the same intensity of the first wave, pointing out that emerged during the last week 150 cases of HIV infection in Egypt, is expected to continue decline in the incidence of the disease in the coming weeks.

The statement pointed out that the number of cases was discovered she was diagnosed with influenza A (H1N1) in Egypt amounted to 15971 on the case until February 7, 2010, according to laboratory test results and data of the Ministry of Health, it was 15668 cases and cure rate of 98.1% of the total cases contracted the disease in Egypt, and there currently in hospital are 41 cases under treatment, and there are 262 deaths.

The statement said that 87% of cases of students infected with the disease in schools are in schools in the governorates of Greater Cairo and Alexandria, and 13% of students are in the rest of the provinces, have recovered 99.4% of the students affected by the disease, and there are 8 deaths among the students since the onset of illness, and so now.

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