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Flu cases higher than claimed: MP
Tehran Times Social Desk
TEHRAN ? A member of the Majlis Health Committee, Alireza Marandi, has said that the true number of H1N1 patients in Iran is higher than those claimed by the Health Ministry.
H1N1 is spreading rapidly in the country and the number of confirmed cases of swine flu is only limited to patients hospitalized with critical conditions, Marandi told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday. ?A large number of those with H1N1 virus that do not go to physicians are not included in the official reports and therefore are unaccounted,? he added.
?H1N1 will last for at least the next 2 years in Iran,? Marandi, the former Health Minister, pointed out.
He further added, ?The outbreak of swine flu is not limited to Iran and it is a global issue.?
Closing schools out of the fear of the spread of influenza could not be considered as a wise option, Marandi suggested. ?We can close a class temporarily if influenza breaks out in the same class.?
Official figures released by the Health Ministry have put the confirmed cases of H1N1 virus at around 3000 with 58 confirmed deaths.
---------25 schoolchildren get H1N1
25 schoolchildren at Tehran suburbs have got H1N1 out of which 16 were hospitalized, Tehran?s education department public relations officer Ali Soleimani told the MNA on Saturday.
Soleminai also said since last week around 253 classrooms at Tehran?s suburbs have been closed temporarily to limit the spread of H1N1 virus.
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Tehran Times Social Desk
TEHRAN ? A member of the Majlis Health Committee, Alireza Marandi, has said that the true number of H1N1 patients in Iran is higher than those claimed by the Health Ministry.
H1N1 is spreading rapidly in the country and the number of confirmed cases of swine flu is only limited to patients hospitalized with critical conditions, Marandi told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday. ?A large number of those with H1N1 virus that do not go to physicians are not included in the official reports and therefore are unaccounted,? he added.
?H1N1 will last for at least the next 2 years in Iran,? Marandi, the former Health Minister, pointed out.
He further added, ?The outbreak of swine flu is not limited to Iran and it is a global issue.?
Closing schools out of the fear of the spread of influenza could not be considered as a wise option, Marandi suggested. ?We can close a class temporarily if influenza breaks out in the same class.?
Official figures released by the Health Ministry have put the confirmed cases of H1N1 virus at around 3000 with 58 confirmed deaths.
---------25 schoolchildren get H1N1
25 schoolchildren at Tehran suburbs have got H1N1 out of which 16 were hospitalized, Tehran?s education department public relations officer Ali Soleimani told the MNA on Saturday.
Soleminai also said since last week around 253 classrooms at Tehran?s suburbs have been closed temporarily to limit the spread of H1N1 virus.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207932