First Swine Flu Death Recorded In Africa

South Africa has confirmed its first death from swine flu, believed to be the first documented fatality from the virus in sub-Saharan Africa.
Health officials said a 22-year-old student had died on 28 July, and tests had confirmed the cause of death as the H1N1 influenza virus.
The country has had at least 150 confirmed swine flu cases - easily the highest rate in sub-Saharan Africa.
The illness has caused hundreds of deaths in North and South America.
Dozens more have died in Asia and Europe.
Africa was the last continent to be hit by the virus and has so far escaped relatively lightly.
South Africa confirmed its first case of the disease on 18 June and according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has had 151 cases in total.
The health ministry called the student's death "unfortunate and deeply regretted".
A statement from the ministry said he had been ill for about a week before going to a Western Cape hospital, where he was treated with antibiotics for pneumonia.
He died two days later.
The ministry's statement added: "We are encouraged by the fact that the majority of cases in South Africa have so far been mild and we hope that this will remain so despite this unfortunate death."




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i hope we safe 4 naija

God please i beg you,dont let this swine flu get to this country cause if it does then all the poor go into extinction.and only the rich one will remain.

Amen

This is disturbing.

BREAKING NEWS: THE SENATE HAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A "SETTLEMENT PACKAGE" FOR SWINE FLU TO STAY AWAY.                       NEWS REACHING US FROM SWINE FLU HQ REPORTS THAT NEGOTIATIONS ARE UNDERWAY BY THE BOARD OF SWINE FLU INCORPORATED THAT THE DEAL MIGHT BE STRUCK AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY 5TH AUGUST, 2009. PLS STAY TUNED TO THIS DEVELOPING STORY. 

Make God help us

The Ministry of health should take pro active steps to make sure it doesn't det to Nigeria

i'm pretty sure its already here. WHO has stopped tallying the cases because they are too many. a month or so ago, everyone in my house came down with some form of the flu - my sis was telling me it was prolly swine flu . . .

Why does every sickness start from Africa.

yeah cos even if the vaccine was available, not every one would be able to afford it, . . . .

pleas who has a concrete idea of the etiology of this epidemic??*doc's*

is it from eating pork or from being around them, cos whenever i go to benin,porto-novo or togo. i come acroos alot of pigs loitering their environs.

_{*am scared outta my jeans. left wid only boxers*}

^^ewwww


chai, it will finsh us o

I doubt it can kill in this our Nija. With all the agumu, sepe, jedi aale, and monkey wey men dey drink? Mehn he nor fit happen. Thats just for some selected few, in general terms, our atmosphere is too harsh for such an American invented virus to come flourish here. WORD!!!

wat am i seein in dt pic? swine flu in Africa may God help us oh

i dont think this flu can kill a naija guy.