Iraq - 58 cases H1N1

[thebes]

Iraq confirms first cases of H1N1 flu virus
Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:56am EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's health minister confirmed Wednesday the country's first cases of the H1N1 flu virus, saying seven members of the women's national basketball team were being treated in hospital.

The squad had been playing in a championships in Chicago and returned to Iraq on June 20.

"Today, six cases of this epidemic flu, H1N1, have been diagnosed in our ministry's central lab," Health Minister Saleh Al-Hasnawi told a news conference.

Six were being treated in hospital in Iraq. One, who was detected as having the virus when the team passed through Jordan, is being treated there. All the patients were in good condition, the minister said.

Hasnawi said one member of the U.S.-led multinational military force in Iraq had also been confirmed Wednesday as having the H1N1 virus, but he gave no further details.

The H1N1 virus has spread around the globe and the World Health Organization has declared an influenza pandemic and advised governments to prepare for a long-term battle it.

There have been more than 50,000 confirmed cases of the virus and at least 237 people have died.

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE55N3EW20090624

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Iraq - 7 confirmed cases

Re: Iraq - 7 confirmed cases

Another case of swine flu confirmed in Kurdistan Region

PUKmedia 26-06-2009 18:15:05

KRG Minister of Health Dr. Zryan Osman confirmed another case of swine flu in Kurdistan Region.

He also stated, ?A Malaysian woman, arriving in Kurdistan Region from Emirates state via Erbil International Airport, was suspected of infecting with swine flu in the airport.?

Regarding this, she was isolated from other passengers and she was confirmed of having virus H1N1following testing her.

She has currently been in intensive care in Erbil, KRG Health Minister added.

http://pukmedia.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11831&Itemid=52

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Iraq - 9 confirmed cases

Re: Iraq - 9 confirmed cases

Three more swine flu cases in Iraq


SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) ? Iraq's northern autonomous region diagnosed three more cases of swine flu on Friday, including the 12-year-old brother of a female basketball player struck down by the condition.

One of the new victims was on the same plane as five members of a women's basketball team and their male coach, returning from the United States, who were diagnosed a day earlier, said regional health minister Ziryan Osman.
"We recorded three more cases," Osman told AFP.

"Two of the people are from Sulaimaniyah, one of whom lives there, and the other is an Egyptian who works there. One case is a 12-year old child, who is the brother of one of the female basketball players."

The six previously confirmed swine flu sufferers returned to Iraqi Kurdistan from Chicago a week ago and were kept in hospital for tests until their condition was confirmed on Thursday.

On their way back from the US city, the team passed through the Jordanian capital Amman, where another female player was held because tests found she had the A(H1N1) virus.

"The Egyptian man was on the plane that transported the basketball players from Amman to Sulaimaniyah," Osman said.

The third newly-diagnosed case involved a Malaysian man who had flown from Dubai to the Kurdish capital Arbil, the health minister added.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Iraq - 16 confirmed cases

Re: Iraq - 16 confirmed cases

google translated

Date: 09/07/2009

Iraq situation was No. 16 pigs infected with bird


BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Ministry of Health increased the number of flu cases in pigs, to $ 16 wounded so far in all over Iraq.

The Director General of the Department in the Ministry of Public Health Ihsan Jaafar, four laboratory-proven infections were discovered in the ranks of the multinational forces to increase the number of pigs infected with avian H1N1 type of the 12 wounded in the latest statistics of the Ministry of the 16 injured,

Jaafar stressed that Iraq seeks to provide antimicrobial cover the need of the disease 25% of the population in case of emergency, noting that the General Company for the import of medicines contracts entered into in that direction.

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[FrenchieGirl]

Re: Iraq - 185 cases H1N1

Re: Iraq - 185 cases H1N1

Iraq registers 58 A/H1N1 flu cases

2009-08-02 18:39:24

BAGHDAD, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The number of A/H1N1 flu cases in Iraq increased to 58, including 38 cases detected among the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, an official Iraqi newspaper reported on Sunday.

"The total number of swine flu cases registered in the country climbed to 58 after detecting ten new cases for Iraqi students who returned from the United States where they studied," the state-run newspaper of al-Sabah quoted Ihsan Jaafar, spokesman of the Iraqi Health Ministry, as saying.

Jaafar confirmed that most of the epidemic cases in the country were among the American soldiers, and that only 20 cases were among Iraqis including nine in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, eight in Baghdad and one each in the provinces of Babel and Kirkuk.

The new patients are at hospital, receiving medication and their conditions are stable, he said.

Iraq announced its first six cases of A/H1N1 flu in the country's northern Kurdish region on June 24.

A/H1N1 influenza is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease with symptoms generally including upper respiratory problems, but the air-borne illness can cause severe pneumonia and even death.

 

[Treyfish]

Re: Iraq - 58 cases H1N1

Prohibited from Iraq over 65 pilgrimage to Mecca by influenza A

Prohibited from Iraq over 65 make the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca (Saudi Arabia), to prevent the spread of influenza A, reported Friday Iraqi government spokesman Ali Dabaga, in a statement.

According to the note, the Iraqi cabinet decided to adopt this measure in implementing the resolutions taken at an emergency meeting of the Regional Office of World Health Organization (WHO) in the eastern Mediterranean, held last July in The Cairo.

Dabaga explained that the seats that remain vacant this year by the prohibition, shall be apportioned among those persons who have applied to travel to Mecca in 2010.

Each year, Saudi Arabia assigns a quota of pilgrims every Arab and Muslim country in terms of its population, which in turn circumvent these positions among all those who ask.

Baghdad's decision adds to that of other Arab states like Egypt, which have resolved to prevent children under twelve years old, the sick, pregnant women and the elderly carry out the hajj this year.

Even the Egyptian mufti, Ali Gomaa, the highest Islamic religious authority in the country, said "legitimate" canceling this year's pilgrimage, if AH1N1 flu continues to spread.

The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the five pillars of Islam and is a duty at least once in the life of Muslims, who can afford it financially, has to fulfill.

In Iraq, about 185 were found infected with influenza A virus and one death from the disease.

The number of cases of influenza A in the world exceeds 296,471, and deaths from the H1N1 virus, the cause of the disease are at least 3486, according to the World Health Organization, WHO. :tiphat:http://www.lapatria.com/Noticias/ver_noticia.aspx?CODNOT=76186&CODSEC=9