Algerian parents transmit H1N1 virus to their baby

The Ministry of Health, Population and Hospitals’ Reform records the twentieth case of swine flu in Algeria, after the reference laboratory of Pasteur Institute confirmed the transmission of H1N1 virus to a fourteen months baby.

• The reference laboratory for swine flu at Pasteur Institute said that the Algerian couple who came from Spain last week end and who are infected with H1N1, as confirmed by the laboratory on the fifth of August, after they returned back to Algeria, following the onset of symptoms, transmitted the virus to their fourteen months’ baby, as experts confirm that H1N1 is can be transmitted after the sixth day of penetration in the human body.
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• Thus, the total number of cases of swine flu in Algeria reached 20 confirmed cases out of 1000 suspected cases. People infected with H1N1 virus recover in various ways, as most of them left hospitals’ isolation rooms in the various Algerian localities.
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• The Ministry of Health and Population opens an investigation on the members of families of the infected through tightening control and laboratory analysis in order to be sure they are free from the virus, as well as among the passengers who accompanied them during the flights on board of the planes, in coordination with the services of border control of Houari Boumediene international airport.
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• Observers to the health situation register the rise of swine flu cases in Algeria in a rapid way, despite the Algerian authorities allocates over 80 billion dinars and 16 million protective masks, as well as over 6.5 Tamiflu packs and 100.000 packs of Saiflu, locally produced, in addition to the installation of 55 thermal cameras in the various ports and airports, and border posts, in order to detect all the cases, as soon as they arrive from abroad, as the majority of swine flu cases came from European and American countries.