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The World Health Organization (WHO) will review the status of the H1N1 virus later this month or in early June to decide whether the swine flu pandemic is over. Spokesman Gregory Hartl said that the Emergency Committee is waiting for the onset of winter in the southern hemisphere before making its recommendation. The WHO’s guidance on whether [...] Live kidney donation, the most recommended form of donations is regrettably less in the Arab world according to an expert. Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), recently, invited Dr Ahmed Adel, Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at Zagazig University and Secretary of the Arab Society of Nephrology, to lecture on the long-term health consequences of kidney ailments [...] “Kuwait is swine flu free,” said a senior Ministry of Health (MoH) official on Tuesday, revealing that the data for January indicated that no new cases of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus had been detected. MoH Undersecretary Dr. Ibrahim Al-Abdulhadi stressed that the ministry is committed to continuing its preventive plan to guard against any reappearance [...] The Ministry of Education has said that it will not make swine flu vaccinations compulsory for primary school pupils despite the low turnout during the first week of the campaign. “There are no moves at the ministry to make it compulsory, neither are there at the Ministry of Health,” said the Education Ministry’s head of School [...] Egypt’s Ministry of Health has announced three more deaths from swine flu Monday, raising the death toll from the H1N1 virus to 94. The three cases were all female, the first a 16-year-old from Beheira, the second a 20-year-old from Dakhalia and the third a 26-year-old from Cairo. In the latest swine flu weekly update, the number [...] Jordan reported 16 new cases of the H1N1 – swine flu over the past week, raising the total number of infections in the Kingdom to 3049, according to Health Ministry weekly report. The ministry indicated that 24,000 citizens have been vaccinated against the pandemic so far. It also noted that the H1N1 | swine flu vaccination campaign [...] After more than three months of summer vacation and the postponement of the first day of school for a whole month, students around Egypt headed to schools and universities on Saturday Oct. 4, only to face more school closures because of the global swine flu pandemic that had reached Egypt in June. Public schools and universities [...] The H1N1 scare coupled with an actual rise in flu cases and other seasonal diseases with the beginning of winter have caused a surge in the number of visitors at the Paediatric Emergency in Al Sadd. A majority of the visitors at the facility do not actually need emergency care, but they prefer to go there, [...] The Kingdom witnessed a drop in confirmed swine flu cases over the past week, with no new fatalities reported, a Ministry of Health report indicated on Wednesday. The ministry’s weekly H1N1 update, issued yesterday, showed that 29 swine flu cases were registered between November 25 and December 2, down from 87 the previous week. The weekly total [...] The Ministry of Health reported eight swine flu related deaths during the Eid El-Adha break, which began Thursday, raising the death toll in Egypt to 21. Even though the ratio of death to infection is less than 1 percent, the increasing rate is worrying. On Thursday, the ministry announced the death of a 28-year-old man in [...] |
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