4 cases of swine influenza in Algeria

Algiers - According to medical sources from the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, four people are affected by swine influenza in Algeria. Two cases have been recorded before yesterday in Oran and Constantine.

• The results of medical tests carried out have confirmed that two people have contracted the H1N1 virus abroad. The third recorded case in Constantine is an Algerian who returned from Canada while the fourth is an Algerian who returned from ‘Omra’ in Saudi Arabia.
  
  According to our sources, both cases have been tested at the laboratory of the Pasteur Institute in Algiers and were maintained in hospital. The results appeared yesterday afternoon.
  
  The first case of swine flu was recorded in Algiers on 18 current June. This is an Algerian national who came back from Miami in the United States of America via Frankfurt in Germany, with her two children aged 7 and 9, on a flight of the Lufthansa airlines. Two days later, her son Ammar aged 9, presented signs of H1N1 influenza. Both patients were hospitalized in El Kettar hospital where they receive care.
  
  To cope with this pandemic, the Ministry of Health put in service 53 health centres, designed to perform the first analysis in all sectors of health in the 48 deparmtents of the country, plus 5 University hospitals CHU, two in Algiers one in Constantine and another in Oran.
  
  Services will support people suspected to be suffering from the disease. The analysis will be sent to the Pasteur Institute for confirmation.
  
  Ennahar / Dalila B.