Saudi Arabia - Cases approx. 300 plus 6 deaths

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Saudi Arabia confirms first influenza A/H1N1 case

www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-03

　RIYADH, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Saudi Arabia confirmed the first influenza A/H1N1 case in the country, Al-Arabiya TV reported Wednesday.

Saudi authorities said the patient is a Philippine nurse of about 40 years old.

She has just arrived in Riyadh Monday from her annual vacation during which she visited some Asian countries.

Saudi Health authorities said medical checkups have been done to all those who have been in contact with the woman during the past two days.

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Saudi Arabia Reports First Case of Swine Flu, Al Arabiya Says
2009-06-03 08:13:48.922 GMT


By Mahmoud Kassem
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia has reported its first
case of swine flu, Al Arabiya television reported today without
saying where it got the information.
The virus was discovered in a Philippino female, the Saudi
Arabian-owned television said.

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13 nurses put under swine flu observation
By Abdullah Al-Ghamdi
RIYADH ? King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center has put 13 nurses, who came into direct contact with the nurse who was found to be suffering from swine flu, on a precautionary therapeutic program.
Seven nurses have been given one week rest which is the incubation period of the viral disease, said a report.
Dr Kefah Hafez, Director of the Hospital?s Administration, said tests were conducted on 117 staff members who came in contact with the affected nurse. But the results were negative.
He said the nurse?s condition was stable. The hospital would repeat the tests to make sure that she has recovered from the flu.
Dr Kefah said six of the passengers of the Gulf Flight 163 had approached the hospitals and underwent test, which proved they were negative.
The Ministry of Health announced Wednesday that it had detected the Kingdom?s first case of swine flu, found in a Filipina nurse working at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh.
The nurse had been on vacation in the Philippines and returned on Friday.
The Health Ministry?s Preventive Medical Agency and King Faisal Specialist Hospital had put into effect procedures defined in the Anti-SF National Plan. ? Okaz/SG

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Re: Saudi Arabia- A/H1N1 cases- 2

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Saudi Arabia reports 2nd case of swine flu
? AP
2009-06-07 16:02:05 -

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - An official from the Saudi Health Ministry has announced the country's second case of swine flu.
Khaled al-Merghalani told the Associated Press Sunday that a Saudi student studying in the U.S. tested positive for the disease after landing in the western seaport of Jiddah, on a flight from Washington.
He is the first Saudi national to contract the disease.

Saudi Arabia reported its first swine flu case on Wednesday in a Filipino nurse who had returned to the kingdom from vacation in her country. The nurse has been quarantined and is receiving medical attention.
Though rare in the Middle East, there are have been isolated cases of the flu in Kuwait, Egypt and the Emirates, generally from travelers.

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Source: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/11/75662.html

[ Thursday, 11 June 2009 ]

Saudi toddler who returned from US tests positive for H1N1
Saudi confirms 3rd flu case as pandemic declared

RIYADH (AlArabiya.net)

Saudi Arabia said on Thursday a toddler has tested positive for swine flu, the third such reported case in the kingdom, hours after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.

The three-and-a-half-year-old boy, along with his family, arrived in Saudi from the United States last Sunday, the official SPA news agency quoted Saudi Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabia as saying.

The toddler was checked into the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh on Wednesday when he began showing symptoms of the A(H1N1) virus. Medical tests showed he had been infected with the virus, Rabia said.

"The boy is currently undergoing medical procedures that are taken in such cases," he said, pointing out that members of his family were examined and tested negative for the virus.

A Saudi student who returned from the United States to the kingdom was confirmed as the country's second case of infection by the H1N1 virus on Sunday, just few days after the Gulf kingdom reported its first case of swine flu, a Filipina nurse who tested positive several days after returning from holiday to Saudi Arabia via Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia's neighbor Kuwait said on May 24 that 18 U.S. soldiers had H1N1 flu in the first cases to hit the world's largest oil exporting region. Kuwait has a logistics base for the U.S. army for their Iraq operations.

The flu first arrived in the Middle East via Israel after a man arrived from Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, where he had contracted the virus in April.
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Saudi reports three new swine flu cases

RIYADH (AFP) ? Saudi Arabia said on Friday that three family members of a small boy who tested positive for swine flu also have the virus, bringing to six the number of reported swine flu cases in the kingdom.

The father and two sisters of the three-and-a-half-year-old Saudi boy were diagnosed with A(H1N1) influenza after undergoing tests on Thursday and Friday, the health ministry said in a statement carried by official SPA news agency.

The family arrived in Saudi Arabia from the United States last Sunday, according to Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabia. The boy tested positive on Thursday.

A Saudi student diagnosed with swine flu was discharged from hospital on Wednesday after treatment, while a Filipina nurse returning from holidays also tested positive for the flu last week.

The World Health Organisation on Thursday declared a pandemic after its latest figures showed the number of reported A(H1N1) infections has reached 29,000 in 74 countries, including 141 deaths.

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Re: Saudi Arabia- A/H1N1 cases- 8

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Swine flu cases in Saudi rise to eight
Jun 13, 2009 at 18:41


Two more swine flu cases were diagnosed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, taking the total to eight in the kingdom since the virus first appeared 10 days ago, the health ministry said.

Both cases were of people entering from the United States, one of them now in a Riyadh hospital and the other in the eastern city of Dammam, the ministry said in a report carried by the SPA state news agency.

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Saudi reports more swine flu cases


RIYADH, Jun 15, 2009 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia reported three new swine flu cases on Monday, pushing the total cases detected to 14 since it first appeared in the kingdom early this month, the official SPA news agency reported.

It cited the health ministry as saying they were a Filipino nurse working in a Riyadh hospital and two children, including the eight-month-old daughter of a Mauritanian diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus on Sunday after arriving from Canada.

Abdullah Hugail of the National Committee of Infectious Diseases said on Sunday that Saudi Arabia was vulnerable to the spread of swine flu because of the high number of foreign workers and pilgrims in the kingdom, media reports said.

Some seven million out of the 25.4-million-strong Saudi population are foreign workers.

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In / registration of five new cases of disease, swine flu

RIYADH, 24 Jumada II 1430 AH June 17, 2009 WAS

The Ministry of Health for the registration (5) new cases of disease, swine influenza (A H1N1), and thus increase the number of cases that have been registered in the Kingdom (22) wounded.

The ministry said in a statement that was recorded (5) new cases of the disease first and second of nationality Filipino nurses Mkhalttin of Filipino nurses that have already announced her on Saturday as they are under way to begin impeachment proceedings, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard and the third case of a child age (two and three months) Mkhalt of women already infected with the announcement of Aramco Hospital Dhahran

The fourth case is the child (Malaysian national) age (9) years, coming from Malaysia to the Kingdom by King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah on flight MH150 on 15/6/2009, where m is Currently the procedures for isolation at a hospital in the area of Mecca and the fifth case of a Filipina nurse in the UK citizenship provided by the Philippines through the King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh on the flight cx733 Cathay Pacific on 13/6/2009 m and is currently the subject of impeachment proceedings, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard in Riyadh. Bringing the number of cases (22) infected with the case of swine flu were confirmed in all laboratories of the Ministry of Health.

She is currently being applied preventive and therapeutic actions on the infected and contact the recommended procedures in accordance with the national plan for prevention of disease, swine flu, and recommended by the World Health Organization.

The ministry called on all citizens and residents on the next flight to the above-mentioned contact the Department of Preventive Medicine Telephone health Riyadh No. (487551-01) (Ext 333) (391) (392), as well as the validity of the Preventive Medicine Department of Jeddah on the telephone number (6640588-02) or number (6640256-02) and in the case of the emergence of symptoms such as fever, cough, runny nose and sore throat and a feeling of pain in some parts of the body Kaladilat and joints, as well as headaches, fatigue and defibrillator, during the first seven days of the date of arrival. This is based on the procedure recommended by the Scientific Committee of the National Infectious Diseases and guided by the directives and recommendations of the World Health Organization.

The Ministry of Health has provided free phone service to the media information center and health education (8002494444) to respond to inquiries on the disease, swine flu and to reassure citizens and residents of preventive and precautionary action undertaken by the ministry about the disease and the methods of prevention and during official business hours.
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Extraordinary measures after the arrival of the swine flu of Mecca and Medina

Khalid Murghalani

Riyadh / Saudi Arabia is preparing to face the possibility of the spread of swine flu among pilgrims and Umrah performers, particularly with the monitoring of infections of the disease in Mecca and Medina.

And monitoring of the virus (H 1 N 1) with three children in the Saudi city and to the children in the nine-year-old at a hotel near the Holy Mosque in Mecca, according to the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia.

The discovery of 12 new cases in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the toll in the Kingdom of the injured to 29 since the first case on the third of June.

The receipt of these cases highlight the risks posed by the virus on millions of pilgrims and pilgrims who are expected to visit SA between August and December, according to Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Murghalani.

Murghalani said that the Saudi government is currently working with experts from WHO and other international organizations to develop a plan to deal with this threat.

The Murghalani in this context that "the whole world concerned about this issue, and we do our best, were guests of Vakadmon Rahman."

The spokesman noted that the Ministry of Health collected quantities of Tamiflu, which is used to treat the disease, and sufficient to address the 10 percent of SA population who are more than 25 million people.

The local press reported that the pharmacies sell large quantities of Tamiflu, in parallel with the growing concern among the population of the spread of swine flu, and the drug is effective in the early stages of the disease from spreading.

According Murghalani expects the Saudi authorities that the risk of the spread of the disease is growing significantly with the start of the peak season in the pilgrimage from the second half of August, during the month of Ramadan next year.

The biggest risk is, of course, during the pilgrimage season in November with the understanding that some 1.7 million pilgrims of the world participated in the pilgrimage last year.

Murghalani said that Saudi Arabia has a health plan for the prevention and treatment of diseases prevalent among the pilgrims, said Murghalani that "Hajj and Umrah are a complex system of control," referring to the non-registration of the spread of any disease or epidemic is among the pilgrims during the past years.

Expects the Saudi Ministry of Health to finalize the plan for addressing the development of swine flu in collaboration with the World Health Organization experts later this month, knowing that the authorities deployed cameras at airports to monitor body temperature and, therefore, to monitor cases of suspected influenza.

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Re: Saudi Arabia - A/H1N1 cases- 30

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Jubail swine flu case takes total to 30
By Ibrahim Alawi
JEDDAH ? The Ministry of Health announced Friday a new case of swine flu found in a Filipina nurse working in Jubail in the Eastern Province, bringing the total number of registered cases in the Kingdom to 30.
A ministry statement said that the 32-year-old nurse had been placed in isolation and that all regulations for preventing and treating the virus were being followed, and reiterated its previous advice on measures that may be taken to safeguard against the virus.
The statement reminded the public that further information and inquiries can be pursued during office hours at 8002494444, a free-of-charge information hotline.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh said Friday it had detected its first H1N1 case, a man who returned to the country from the United States.
?The first swine flu case has been detected in Bangladesh. The patient, now under treatment, has arrived from the USA,? Health Minister Ruhul Haque told reporters. He gave no further details.
The new strain of swine flu is officially a pandemic now, according to the World Health Organization. ? Okaz/SG

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Re: Saudi Arabia - A/H1N1 cases- 35

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Lebanese woman hospitalized in Riyadh with H1N1 infection
Mohammed Rasooldeen | Arab News


RIYADH: A 25-year-old Lebanese woman has been diagnosed with swine flu and admitted to the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh, bringing the total number of people affected by the disease in the Kingdom to 35, it was announced yesterday.

According to a senior Health Ministry official, the woman caught the disease from another infected person. He said some of the identified cases include people who brought the disease from countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Besides following the routine health advice offered by the ministry, the official said, people should try to keep away from H1N1 sufferers. ?Some of those who have contracted the disease were those who visited and moved closely with patients,? he said.

Meanwhile, extensive arrangements are being made by the ministry to hold a four-day workshop on how to prevent an H1N1 outbreak. The workshop is scheduled to begin on Saturday.

Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Al-Mirghalani said renowned experts on swine flu from the World Health Organization, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and the Eastern Mediterranean Office in Alexandria have consented to enlighten the audience on the disease and tell them of curative and preventive measures to be taken to control it. Responsible health officials from the 20 health regions in the Kingdom will participate in the workshop, which will be held in Riyadh.

?The workshop will provide an ideal platform for the ministry?s officials to compare notes with experts and accept their suggestions for further improvement of our national strategy to combat the disease,? Al-Mirghalani told Arab News. He said a national committee headed by the health minister himself is responsible for implementing the preventive programs through the ministry?s network.

Al-Mirghalani said the Kingdom, which hosts a big expatriate population, has the additional responsibility to look after hundreds of thousands of foreign Haj and Umrah pilgrims as well as business visitors.

Following the workshop, experts will be taken to the Haj Terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and other places with huge concentration of pilgrims to get their ideas and suggestions in overcoming the current health crisis.

Al-Mirghalani said Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, who is slated to inaugurate the workshop, is open to any constructive suggestions to combat the disease.

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Ministry of Health reported three new cases of swine flu

RIYADH, 01 Rajab 1430 AH June 24, 2009 WAS

Registered by the Ministry of Health during the past 24 hours, 3 new cases of swine flu type (H1N1) A.

The Ministry pointed out that the first case of a Lebanese resident of 18 years in Riyadh and the second case to 53 years in the Philippine province of Jeddah and the third case of a citizen of 12 years in Riyadh and all of the cases moved to the disease because of contact and isolation procedures are being applied to cases in accordance with the national plan for the prevention of disease, swine flu, according to as recommended by the World Health Organization, bringing the total number of cases, 48 cases infected with the swine flu was confirmed in all laboratories of the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health provided a free telephone service to the media information center, health education / 8002494444 / to respond to inquiries on the disease, swine flu and to reassure citizens and residents of preventive action, and during official business hours.

She asked God to preserve this country, its leaders and its people and residents from both poor and Yemen on the patients with recovery and wellness.

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Yesterday a report about an Egyptian man coming back from Saudi Arabia, tested positive for H1N1. Today this report from Bulgaria.

It would not be surprising if the real number of cases in SA is much higher than reported. Like in many or most other countries.

In November several millions of pilgrims from all over the world will gather in Saudi Arabia.




Bulgaria's Newest Swine Flu Patient Returned from Saudi Arabia

2009-06-26

Bulgaria's eighth case of patient with swine flu, A(H1N1), is a man who recently came back from Saudi Arabia.

The news was announced Friday by Bulgaria's Ministry of Health, which also said the patient is quarantined, and under medical supervision. His condition is not serious.

The man came back from a Saudi Arabia trip on June 24 by plain via Istanbul, Turkey.

The Ministry has taken all precautions by testing the family and colleagues of the patient. None of them was found to have any swine flu symptoms.

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Ministry of Health .. The discovery of 6 new cases of infected pig flu

RIYADH, 04 Rajab 1430 AH June 27, 2009 WAS

Ministry of Health announced the discovery of (6) new cases of disease, swine flu type A H1N1 during the (24) hours.

The Ministry pointed out that the first case of a citizen (56) years in the courtyard and the second case of a citizen (23) years and the third case of the Filipino (27) years and the fourth case of the Filipino (28) years and the fifth case of a Yemeni resident (29) years and the sixth case of the Filipino (25) years and all Turning to the cases of disease due to contact with infected with the virus, and all the five recent cases were registered in the Riyadh area.

And isolation procedures are being applied to cases in accordance with the national plan for the prevention of disease, swine flu and as recommended by the World Health Organization.

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