Egypt: first the death of b "H1N1" a woman returning from Umrah

August 2, 2009

The health authorities in Egypt on Sunday for the registration of the first death from H1N1 virus, known universally as the "swine flu", the Egyptian woman recently returned to the country from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah.

The Minister of Health, the woman, the woman, a province of the West, died as a result of complications, as it was suffering from heart disease, adding that there were ten new cases of the disease coming from abroad.

The minister said, in remarks to Egyptian television, said that Ms. deceased traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah in the sixth of June last, and the temperature rose in the last days of her kingdom.

He pointed out that the deceased, when I went to Madinah, began to show symptoms of influenza strongly, and had to enter a hospital in the city, but that her husband had asked the doctors to give drugs to enable them to endure, until the return journey to Cairo, which was reached in July 16 ongoing.

Have not been able thermal scanner Cairo International Airport to detect the situation, because of the drugs given to them, which reduced the degree of temperature, where she was sitting in a wheelchair, and when she returns to the province of Menoufiya condition worsened, her family was forced to transfer to a hospital in the western province.

The mountain that the treating physician is in Bonlfonza her pigs, and immediately inform the Directorate of Health Affairs, a sample was taken on Friday, and the analysis has shown that the situation is positive, but the patient died due to the deteriorating situation.

Shortly before the discovery of the first event of the death of swine flu in Egypt, the first also at the level of Arab States, Ministry of Health announced that the high number of confirmed cases to 127 cases, according to MENA.

The ministry, in a statement it had been 106 cases of recovery of the total infected cases, and until Sunday July 19, and the remaining cases, the 21 "enjoys good health."
The statement said that the examination of 25 cases of suspicion of the governorates of Aswan, Suez, and October 6, Damietta and East and West and the lake, in addition to Cairo, and laboratory results were all negative.

He also pointed out that the government's statement was also examined three cases of suspected infected with H5N1 strain of the disease, "avian flu", the three provinces, and laboratory results were all negative.

"The Central Conference of crisis," the status of information and decision support, held its periodic meeting on Sunday, to follow up the position of the disease at the local and global levels.

During the meeting, noted that the symptoms appeared in all cases infected with the disease in Egypt, the symptoms are minor, and all cases that appeared linked to cases coming from outside the country.

It was also asserted that there had been, until now, the spread of the disease internally in Egypt, according to the theories of global standards and internal proliferation of the disease in different communities, followed globally.