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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Saudi Arabia : Teen admitted with swine flu

Via The Saudi Gazette :

" JEDDAH: A private hospital in Jeddah has released a report revealing that a 13-year-old boy has been admitted with swine flu.

The report said that before admittance to hospital the child had been given Tamiflu but when his condition worsened medication was ceased.Officials from Health Affairs and the mayoralty later sprayed the boy’s home as a precautionary measure.

Adil Turkistani, the head of Preventive Medicine at the Primary Healthcare Department, said that the hospital had initially supplied a defective analysis sample and that only a second test confirmed the boy had swine flu."

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