Iraq - 6 H1N1 cases suspected

[Gert van der Hoek]

google translated from dutch

Presumably swine flu in South-Kurdistan

22/06/2009 SLEMANI - The Minister of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Ziryan Osman, on Sunday declared to the AFP that six women in South Kurdistan to be the pig flu have occurred during a holiday in the U.S.

Women (ages 16 to 23 years) are part of a basketball team that was just returned from Chicago. They are at least a week in the hospital account for different tests.

"They are all six in the hospital. Their body temperatures rose and it is not good with them. They will be kept in the hospital," said Osman. According to Osman is the swine flu.

On their way back from Chicago women traveled through Amman. A member of the team was held, because they showed that she the A (H1N1) virus .

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Iraq - 6 H1N1 cases suspected

Six In Kurdistan Suspected Of Having Swine Flu


SULAIMANIYAH (AFP)--Six women in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan are suspected to have contracted swine flu while in the United States, the regional health minister told AFP Sunday.

Ziryan Osman said that the women, who were part of a basketball team that had just returned from Chicago, were aged between 16 and 23, and would be kept in hospital for at least a week to be tested.

"Six of them are in hospital," Osman said. "Their body temperature has increased and they are not well, so they have been kept in hospital."

"I suspect they have swine flu."

On their way back from Chicago, the team passed through Amman, where one member was held because tests found she had the A(H1N1) virus, Osman said.

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