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Arab World - Reducing the swine flu death cases

Global Arab Network - - Shahid Abbas

Thursday, 31 December 2009 18:59

Positive signs start rising on the horizon as Middle East and North Africa (Arab World) have shown good indicators in reducing the swine flu death cases (H1N1).

Pandemic H1N1 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
State	Cases	Deaths
Afghanistan	779	14
Bahrain	793	6
Egypt	2,494	7
Islamic Republic of Iran	2,153	33
Iraq	1,835	9
Jordan	2,380	4
Kuwait	6,640	17
Lebanon	761	2
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	21	0
Morocco	824	0
Oman	3,829	25
Pakistan	6	1
Palestine	901	1
Qatar	23	1
Saudi Arabia	4,119	28
Sudan	21	0
Syrian Arab Republic	230	22
Tunisia	141	0
United Arab Emirates	79	0
Yemen	711	18
Total	28,751	188
Source: WHO as of 14 November (IRIN)

More people have died from H1N1 influenza in Iran than in any of the 22 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, according to WHO’s update.

With 33 deaths to date, Iran made up about 17 percent of the 188 total deaths in the region since May 2009. Saudi Arabia has had 28 deaths, Oman 25 and Syria 22.

The Egyptian Ministry of Health has announced three more deaths of the Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, which pushed the death toll to 109 cases since the disease outbreak.

In a press release by the ministry that three cases were women from Al-Daqhalia, Al-Qalyoubia, and Asyout provinces.

The first case is a lady aged 55 years old, the second case was to another lady died in the age of 66 years old, where the third fatality was to another lady aged 35 years old.

Algerian authorities have announced three fatalities and 54 new cases of swine flu epidemic, bringing the total number of fatalities 42 and 687 infected cases with A (H1N1).

A statement issued by the Algerian Ministry of Health said the three victims included were a women aged 24, a 28-year-old pregnant woman and a 51-year-old man who was suffering from a severe difficulty in breathing.

Syria had by far the highest rate of deaths to cases with 9.5 percent of all cases being fatalities. This was followed by Yemen with a 2.5 percent rate, Afghanistan 1.7 percent and Iran 1.5 percent.

Kuwait had the highest number of cases with 6,640 (23 percent of all 28,751 cases in the region), followed by Saudi Arabia with 4,119; Oman 3,829; and Egypt 2,494.

Kuwait also had the highest number of cases per capita (populations taken from CIA Factbook) with 2.46 cases per 1,000 in the population, followed by Oman with 1.12 cases per 1,000 and Bahrain with 1.10 cases per 1,000.

Since WHO’s last regional H1N1 update on 7 November, Egypt has had the highest number of new cases, with 850, followed by Iraq with 561, Iran with 515 and Oman with 500.

Somalia reported its first two cases at the start of November.

As of 8 November, WHO reported that there were over 503,536 global cases of H1N1 with at least 6,260 deaths. However, it noted that because countries are “no longer required to test and report individual cases, the number of cases reported actually understates the real number of cases”.

WHO segments the world into six regions: Africa, the least affected region, had 2.9 percent of the global total of H1N1 cases; the Eastern Mediterranean Region 5.1 percent; Southeast Asia 8.8 percent; Europe 15.5 percent; the Western Pacific 29.8 percent and the Americas 37.9 percent. (SANA, IRIN, KUNA, APA)

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