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  • Gaza Strip confirms 1st H1N1 flu death

    The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that a young man had succumbed to the H1N1 virus, popularly known as "swine flu."

    The young man, who hails from the southern city of Khan Younis, was the Gaza Strip's first H1N1 fatality, Magdi Dahir, the ministry's director of preventive medicine, told The Anadolu Agency.

    While six other Gazans had come down with the virus, he added, their respective conditions were not life-threatening.

    Formerly designated a "pandemic" by the UN's World Health Organization in 2009, H1N1 is a respiratory disease caused by influenza.

    The virus was first observed in Mexico in 2009.


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    Swine flu cases rattle Gaza

    KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip ? The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that a number of people have been infected with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu. The Gazan health sector is already in a disastrous situation following the war this summer.
    SummaryPrint Cases of swine flu have emerged in Gaza, where hospitals are unprepared for an outbreak and health services continue to deteriorate.
    Author Hana Salah Posted December 23, 2014


    Despite the Health Ministry's announcement that swine flu does not pose a threat to public health and that there have been only a small, if unspecified, number of cases, media reports about a death from swine flu raised public concerns. Officials refused to confirm whether swine flu was responsible for the death.
    At the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, where these cases are being treated, Al-Monitor met with a relative of Ahmed al-Farra. The 37-year-old is believed to have died at the hospital from H1N1. The relative recounted how Ahmed fell ill. "On the evening of Tuesday [Dec. 2], Ahmed had a high temperature, severe cough and was experiencing shortness of breath. He headed to the hospital's emergency department, underwent treatment for a normal flu and left the hospital that same day."
    "But three days later, his condition worsened. He returned to the hospital and requested an X-ray, and the results showed that he had severe pneumonia. He stayed in the hospital and it was decided to transfer him to the intensive care unit, where he remained on a ventilator. The hospital coordinated with International Patient Care to transfer him to a hospital inside the Green Line on Sunday, Dec. 7," the relative added.
    A doctor at the hospital confirmed that Ahmed's condition worsened while he was being transferred to the ambulance, so he was returned to the intensive care unit. He remained in the hospital until he died on Dec. 12.


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    Cases of swine flu have emerged in Gaza, where hospitals are unprepared for an outbreak and health services continue to deteriorate.

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