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Health workers in the Gaza Strip announced the first death and first cases of H1N1 swine flu on Sunday, worrying Palestinians who had said that Israel's blockade of the territory was keeping the virus at bay.
The Health Ministry and medical workers said five people diagnosed with H1N1 on Saturday were transferred to Israel for treatment and a sixth, female patient suffering underlying health problems died in the territory run by Hamas. (Reuters)
Health workers in the Gaza Strip announced the first death and first cases of H1N1 swine flu on Sunday, worrying Palestinians who had said that Israel's blockade of the territory was keeping the virus at bay.
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Two women have died from influenza A (H1N1) in Gaza Strip
07 декември 2009 | 10:34 | FOCUS News Agency
Gaza. Two women have died in the Gaza Strip from the swine flu, these are the first victims of the virus in densely populated areas, AFP notes.
Health Ministry spokesman Hassan Khalaf refused to give more information but added that the state of the other three patients with influenza A (H1N1) is improving.
Palestinian territories-Gaza Strip: Two dead from the H1N1 avian
Two women died in the Gaza Strip from the avian H1N1, announced by the health authorities of Hamas. This is the first recorded deaths from flu in the Gaza Strip, which have reported five new cases of influenza.
The representative of the Ministry of Health of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, refused to give information on the two fatal cases, but said the situation of the remaining three patients improved.
Doctor Hassan Khalaf announced yesterday the five recorded human cases of avian influenza H1N1, the first in the Gaza Strip, without giving information on how to attack the virus. However, ruled out any link between infected with the pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Gaza Strip since 2007 is under strict embargo, which was imposed by Israel with the assistance of Egypt, which has significantly limit the movement of residents of Gaza to the outside.
In the West Bank, 1,250 cases of influenza H1N1 have been recorded, among them 9 fatal. The Palestinian Authority announced it would sell eight million U.S. dollars for the procurement of vaccines.
Gaza - Two Gaza residents died from swine flu, the first fatalities from the disease, Palestinian doctors said Monday. Three other Gazans found to be suffering the disease remain in stable condition in Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, Hassan Khalaf, director general of the Hamas-run ministry of health, told reporters.
He said that in addition to the virus, the two fatalities had also suffered from kidney failure and a severe bacterial infection, as well as having lacked the self-immune system able to resist the illness.
On Sunday the Hamas ministry of health announced that five Gazans were discovered to have the virus, and that two of them were in serious condition.
It marked the first admission by the ministry, after months of denials, that swine flu had hit the Gaza Strip.
The latest deaths bring to 11 the number of people affected by swine flu in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
More than 60 people haver died from swine flu in Israel.
Page last updated at 10:43 GMT, Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Gaza swine flu outbreak kills three
Three people have died from swine flu in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry has revealed.
A baby and two women were confirmed as the fist deaths from the H1N1 virus in the densely populated Palestinian territory, a spokesman said.
Gaza is under a tight Israeli and Egyptian blockade, tightened since Hamas took over the strip in 2007.
World Health Organisation officials say that there are not enough swine flu vaccines to protect Gaza's hospitals.
Hassan Khalaf, a spokesman for the health ministry said there were four new cases discovered on Monday of people infected with the disease.
Senior WHO official Mahmoud Daher said the strip has only 1,000 vaccine doses for around 8,000 health employees, serving 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
In the occupied West Bank, at least 1,250 cases of swine flu have been reported, with nine deaths, according to official figures.
In Israel, 67 people have died out of 8,539 cases.
The late arrival of swine flu to Gaza has been attributed to the blockade by Israel and Egypt.
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