Health Ministry declares all cases of swine flu in Yemen cured

The Public Health and Population Ministry declared the recovery of the sixth case infected with the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, after the completion of treatment on Sunday.
 

Dr. Hakim al-Kohlani, the Director General of Disease Control, official spokesman for the Supreme National Committee to Prepare for Swine Flu, said that, “All six people that were discovered infected with the virus in Yemen have recovered and returned to their normal lives.”
 

“The last case, a Yemeni girl with British citizenship, has been cured as well,” he added.
 

“We have not registered any cases among other passengers arriving on the same flight of the infected patients, and no one was infected in the homes of the patients either, a testament to the action taken for the segregation and proper health measures taken in such cases,” al-Kohlani said.
 

Previously, Yemen devised a plan to combat the possible spread of the H1N1 virus, a step which comes after the World Heath Organization raised the pandemic alert to level 6.
 

The plan allocates about $5.04 million to provide necessary supplies to fight the pandemic. The supplies will include 100 anti-H1N1 masks, vaccine for a million people, three H1N1 non-contact infrared thermometers to be used in the provinces of Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla, as well as other materials to be provided to central test labs in Aden and Mukalla. 
 

The measures that Yemen is prepared to take to counter the spread of H1N1 will be carried out in collaboration with health offices across the republic, with special rooms provided to isolate infected patients to avoid further spread.
 

Though a few of the already infected people around the world have died, the pandemic spreads very quickly in a short time.
 

Since it first began in Mexico on April 24, and then in the United States, the H1N1 flu pandemic has spread to more than 104 countries worldwide.
 

Yemeni authorities have warned the disease may gain momentum in the winter.
 

Up to 35,000 people have been confirmed infected with the virus globally, of which almost 200 have died. 

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