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    The first case of a new flu confirmed in Bahrain

    May 25, 2009 |

    The first case of influenza A/H1N1, also known as "pig flu", registered in Bahrain, announced on Monday channel "Al Arabiya" and the Ministry of Health.

    According to the TV, diseased man recently arrived from New York. On the state of his health were reported.

    World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Monday, 12,515 human cases of influenza A/H1N1 in 46 countries, 91 diseased dead. On Saturday, the WHO reported on 12,022 patients.

    WHO on April 29 raised the threat of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 in the fourth to fifth on shestiballnoy scale. The head of Margaret Chen last week said that if you are more at risk without hesitation Organization will increase the threat of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 to the maximum.

    Первый случай заболевания гриппом A/H1N1, известного также как "свиной грипп", зафиксирован в Бахрейне, сообщает в понедельник телеканал "Аль-Арабия" и министерство здравоохранение страны.
    ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
    Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

    ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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    Bahraini tests positive for swine flu on retest

    26 May 2009
    MANAMA: Bahrain registered its first swine flu case yesterday after retesting a 21-year-old Bahraini who was cleared of the viral infection a day earlier. "The patient is being kept in isolation at the quarantine ward of SMC (Salmaniya Medical Complex)," a Health Ministry spokesperson said last night.
    An official, who did not want to be named, said the patient had been studying in the United States.
    On Sunday, the man was transferred from a private hospital to SMC after he showed flu-like symptoms. It was then that he was given the initial test, which the Health Ministry reported came out negative for the A/H1N1 virus.
    Yesterday, health authorities decided to double-check the results. The man's family was also being checked last night. The patient is being monitored and treated with anti-flu medication.
    Meanwhile, health authorities have urged the public to contact them at their hotlines set up to educate people about the viral infection.
    Last week, a four-year-old British girl underwent testing. Last month, a 41-year-old American traveler was the first swine flu suspect in the island. He arrived here from Washington via Frankfurt and had swine flu symptoms. In both cases the patients tested negative.
    Health authorities will be conducting this week a series of workshop for medical staff who will be assigned to monitor the health of Bahrainis intending to perform Haj later this year. Health ministries in the Gulf are taking extra precaution to avoid any outbreak of swine flu after the Haj, which takes place in November.
    Health authorities say they are keeping a watch at all entry points. Bahrain's health authorities have set up an isolation room near the immigration counter at the King Fahd Causeway to be used as a quarantine area for any traveler found suffering from flu symptoms.
    The A/H1N1 virus has so far proven to be a mild strain of influenza, far less deadly than the bird-to-human form of the avian A/H5N1 virus that jumped to humans in 1997 but has since been kept under control. However, health officials are concerned that the swine flu virus could mutate into a more dangerous form as it spreads.


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      Re: Bahrain: the first case of new flu confirmed

      Source: http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZA...%20on%20retest

      Bahraini tests positive for swine flu on retest
      Arab News


      26 May 2009
      [B]MANAMA: Bahrain registered its first swine flu case yesterday after retesting a 21-year-old Bahraini who was cleared of the viral infection a day earlier.

      26 May 2009
      MANAMA: Bahrain registered its first swine flu case yesterday after retesting a 21-year-old Bahraini who was cleared of the viral infection a day earlier.

      An official, who did not want to be named, said the patient had been studying in the United States.

      On Sunday, the man was transferred from a private hospital to SMC after he showed flu-like symptoms. It was then that he was given the initial test, which the Health Ministry reported came out negative for the A/H1N1 virus.


      Yesterday, health authorities decided to double-check the results. The man's family was also being checked last night. The patient is being monitored and treated with anti-flu medication.

      Meanwhile, health authorities have urged the public to contact them at their hotlines set up to educate people about the viral infection.

      Last week, a four-year-old British girl underwent testing. Last month, a 41-year-old American traveler was the first swine flu suspect in the island. He arrived here from Washington via Frankfurt and had swine flu symptoms. In both cases the patients tested negative.

      Health authorities will be conducting this week a series of workshop for medical staff who will be assigned to monitor the health of Bahrainis intending to perform Haj later this year. Health ministries in the Gulf are taking extra precaution to avoid any outbreak of swine flu after the Haj, which takes place in November.

      Health authorities say they are keeping a watch at all entry points.
      Bahrain's health authorities have set up an isolation room near the immigration counter at the King Fahd Causeway to be used as a quarantine area for any traveler found suffering from flu symptoms.

      The A/H1N1 virus has so far proven to be a mild strain of influenza, far less deadly than the bird-to-human form of the avian A/H5N1 virus that jumped to humans in 1997 but has since been kept under control. However, health officials are concerned that the swine flu virus could mutate into a more dangerous form as it spreads.

      ? Arab News 2009

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        Re: Bahrain: the first case of new flu confirmed

        Established in 1975, the Saudi-based Arab News is the Middle East’s newspaper of record and the biggest English language daily in the Kingdom.


        Bahrain probes flu test fiasco
        Arab News Wednesday 27 May 2009


        MANAMA: The Health Ministry has launched an investigation against a private hospital that sent home a 21-year-old Bahraini man who later tested positive for A/H1N1 virus after 10 hours.

        ?We have ordered immediate action against the private hospital and will investigate the matter,? Undersecretary of Health Dr. Aziz Hamza said during a press conference yesterday. The patient appears to be recovering.

        The private hospital sent home the Bahraini student, 21, who was suffering from high fever and flu symptoms on Saturday. On Sunday, the private hospital referred the case to the Salmaniya Medical Complex.

        The student was out in the open for about 10 hours. He initially tested negative on Sunday, but on Monday he tested positive using a kit specifically for detecting the virus.

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          Re: Bahrain: the first case of new flu confirmed

          Source: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsD...storyid=253251

          Seven Bahraini students hit by swine flu

          By MANDEEP SINGH, Posted on ? Monday, June 15, 2009


          MANAMA: Seven Bahraini students - five girls and two boys - all aged 17, have tested positive for the H1N1 swine flu virus, the Health Ministry said last night. They were among 13 secondary school students who returned from the US on Saturday night, said public health director Dr Khairya Moosa.

          The students reported to health centres at Budaiya, A'Ali, East Riffa and the National Bank of Bahrain Health Centre in Arad, complaining of high fever, severe body ache, headache and sore throat, she said.

          "The health centres reported the seven cases at different times and when all reports were compiled, we realised they were from the same group which had been in the US for 10 months on a student exchange programme sponsored by the Education Ministry."

          She said when the results were available at 8pm and they were confirmed as positive, all of them were moved to the isolation ward at Salmaniya Medical Complex.

          "Six others from the same group tested negative and have been put on a course of Tamiflu as a precaution."

          She said all those in close contact with the seven affected students, including their family members, had also been given Tamiflu.

          Dr Moosa said the ministry was liaising with Gulf Air to try and identify other passengers on the same flight.

          A 21-year-old Bahraini student had tested positive for the virus last month after he returned from a trip to New York. He was treated at the SMC and released a week later.

          l Bahrain's National Committee for Disaster Management last night held an emergency meeting and decided to set up a team to follow up on new swine flu cases.

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            Re: Bahrain: A/H1N1 cases - 12

            Swine flu cases rise in Gulf states

            By Abdullah Rebhy ?

            DOHA (AFP) ? Swine flu cases in Arab states in the Gulf, a high-traffic transit zone for millions of air travellers, rose to 33 on Tuesday after Qatar reported its first cases.

            Three people arriving in Doha on international flights were diagnosed with A(H1N1) influenza, and Kuwait also reported that one of its citizens had the virus -- the first among the emirate's resident population.

            Qatar's Health Minister Abdullah al-Qahtani said a two-year-old New Zealand child tested positive for the flu on arrival in Doha on Saturday from Austria after a stopover in Dubai.

            And a two-year-old American-Bangladeshi boy transiting Doha on Sunday from New York to Bangladesh who showed flu symptoms was taken to the airport clinic where he was diagnosed with the disease, Qahtani was quoted by the official QNA news agency as saying.

            An Iraqi arriving from the United States was also found to be infected with the virus, Qahtani told a news conference.

            The Kuwaiti case was of a man who arrived in the emirate on a flight from the United States, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Last month 18 American soldiers tested positive for swine flu in Kuwait.

            Saudi Arabia, home to some seven million foreign workers out of a 25.4-million-strong population, announced three new cases on Tuesday, taking its total to 17, the highest figure among the four Gulf states currently affected.

            A Saudi student returning from Australia, a Mauritanian woman and a Malaysian nurse -- the last two had both been in contact with infected people -- were all diagnosed with the virus, the health ministry in Riyadh said.

            On Monday the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain reported 11 new cases of swine flu among students returning from their studies in the United States, taking the total to 12.

            The students, who had been among a group of 13 returning from Washington via Kuwait on the same flight as the infected Kuwaiti man, were quarantined in a Manama hospital, the health ministry said.

            Bahrain reported its first case of swine flu in May, that of a 21-year-old Bahraini who had also returned from studying in the United States.

            The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven emirates in which foreigners make up more than 80 percent of the population, said in May a man arriving from Canada was its first confirmed swine flu case, but he recovered on treatment and the country is now free of the virus.

            Oman has not reported any cases of the disease.

            The influenza A (H1N1) virus, which was first detected in Mexico in April, has so far infected almost 36,000 people in 76 countries and claimed 163 lives, according to the latest World Health Organisation figures.

            ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
            Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

            ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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              Re: Bahrain: A/H1N1 cases - 12

              Source: http://english.bna.bh/?ID=80444

              BAHRAIN REPORTS TWO NEW SWINE FLU CASES

              date: 09 07, 2009

              MANAMA, JULY 9 (BNA) -- THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH REPORTED TWO NEW SWINE FLU CASES ON THURSDAY AFTER SCREENING 5 SUSPECTED PEOPLE, OF WHICH TWO TESTED H1N1-POSITIVE, HEALTH MINISTRY SPOKESMAN ADEL ALI ABDULLAH SAID.
              THE TWO SLIGHTLY INFECTED PATIENTS, A 12-YEAR SWEDE WHO ARRIVED IN MANAMA ON JULY 7 AND A 36-YEAR OLD INDONESIAN WOMAN WHO ARRIVED ON JULY 5, HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO IBRAHIM KHALIL KANOO QUARANTINE CENTER FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT, HE SAID, AFFIRMING THAT BOTH CASES WERE IN A STABLE HEALTH CONDITION. ALL PATIENTS WILL REMAIN IN QUARANTINE AND THEIR CLOSE CONTACTS SCREED AS PER WHO INSTRUCTIONS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID. HE ALSO REVEALED THAT 4 PATIENTS WERE DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER FULLY RECOVERING. MTQ 09-JUL-2009 19:35

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                Re: Bahrain - H1N1 cases - 123

                Manama, August 2 (BNA) the Ministry of Health in Bahrain today reported 11 new swine flu infections after screening a total of 22 suspected cases.

                All the infections have been described as mild and taken to ebrahim khalil kanoo health center for isolation along with 7 previous patients, bringing the total number of isolated patients at the center to 18. A family of four members, a father, 52, mother, 48, daughter, 24, and son, 21, tested positive for swine flu as soon as they returned from Britain. A Bahraini mother, 35 and her three children, aged 3, 4 and 6 also tested positive upon return from omrah. The other two cases are of a Bahraini child, aged four months, and 40-year old philipina who has just arrived from her country. It is worth noting that since the outbreak of the epidemic last april, Bahrain has reported 123 infections and no fatalities. Mtq 02-aug-2009 16:13

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