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According to the Jordanian Minister of Health, Mahmoud Sheyyab, the Ministry has sufficient amounts of Tamiflu, which is the anti-viral medicine prescribed for the treatment of H1N1. “The ministry is completely prepared to deal with any new H1N1 cases and there are 19 hospitals across the Kingdom ready to receive suspected cases of swine flu” [...]
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The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia announced that three individuals died in the kingdom, through the last two weeks, from swine flu. However, the Ministry confirmed that the disease is not representing any threats. The announcement came just two weeks before the beginning of Haj season. The Kingdom of Bahrain announced that its health authorities are going to begin a new campaign to increase public awareness against swine flu, aiming to support the efforts for prevention of the spread of the H1N1 virus. Members of the supreme committee were discussing the best ways to fight swine flu during a meeting. They have [...] 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 [...] “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 [...] Anyone in Bahrain can now get the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, it has been declared. It will no longer by mandatory for the recipient to be suffering from a chronic medical condition or be at increased risk to be eligible for the shot, said Health Ministry head of disease control Dr Muna Al Mousawi. The announcement comes [...] 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 [...] |
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