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BAGHDAD: The Iraqi Health Ministry announced that five people, including a Pakistani national, have died due to the A/H1N1 flu, and that 72 cases registered infected with the disease, China's Xinhua news agency quoted an Iraqi newspaper as saying on Tuesday.
"The Iraqi ministry has registered the latest toll of the epidemic since the beginning of this year in central and southern Iraq," the independent daily of al-Mashriq quoted Ihsan Mohammed Jaafar, director of the public health department in the Health Ministry, as saying.
The Pakistani national died during his visit to Iraq to attend the Shiite religious ceremonies in the holy city of Najaf, some 160 km south of Baghdad, Jaafar said.
Jaafar also said that all the cases have been registered in the provinces of Najaf, Basra, Diyala, Babel and Baghdad, stressing that the medicine for the treatment of the epidemic is available in hospitals across the country.
The 72 patients are in hospital, receiving medication and their conditions are stable, he said.
In 2009, Iraq announced six deaths due to the disease in the country's northern Kurdish region, with no cases in 2010.
A/H1N1 influenza is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease with symptoms generally including upper respiratory problems, but the air-borne illness can cause severe pneumonia and even death. -- BERNAMA
"The Iraqi ministry has registered the latest toll of the epidemic since the beginning of this year in central and southern Iraq," the independent daily of al-Mashriq quoted Ihsan Mohammed Jaafar, director of the public health department in the Health Ministry, as saying.
The Pakistani national died during his visit to Iraq to attend the Shiite religious ceremonies in the holy city of Najaf, some 160 km south of Baghdad, Jaafar said.
Jaafar also said that all the cases have been registered in the provinces of Najaf, Basra, Diyala, Babel and Baghdad, stressing that the medicine for the treatment of the epidemic is available in hospitals across the country.
The 72 patients are in hospital, receiving medication and their conditions are stable, he said.
In 2009, Iraq announced six deaths due to the disease in the country's northern Kurdish region, with no cases in 2010.
A/H1N1 influenza is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease with symptoms generally including upper respiratory problems, but the air-borne illness can cause severe pneumonia and even death. -- BERNAMA
