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Panic swept through Zamalek after 13 of the club's swimmers were found to have caught swine flu during their participation in the districts' competition hosted last week by Ahli Club in Nasr City. Around 600 swimmers participated in the event but H1N1 appeared to strike only Zamalek athletes.

"It is obvious that a Zamalek swimmer became infected before the tournament began and he got in contact with his teammates in the dressing room and the bus that was driving them to the event," Gamal Salaheddin, Ahli's team doctor, said.

...Some Zamalek parents said they had been complaining that their children were suffering from fever but that no one listened until it spread on the team.

Several clubs suspended swimming practice, sending an official letter to the Ministry of Health seeking to know how effective was water as a medium for the transmission of swine flu.

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JEDDAH: Egyptian Haj authorities have decided to reduce the number of Haj pilgrims by 40 percent this year as precaution against the spread of the H1N1 virus. Approximately 80,000 Egyptian pilgrims come for Haj every year

More than 700 cases of swine flu have been reported since June. Most recently, the average number of new cases per week has climbed from 90 to 105.

Swine flu in Egypt has stolen the headlines from the increasing number of H5N1 avian flu victims despite the fact that health authorities consider bird flu to pose the greater danger.

Sporting clubs are the latest focus of public attention after it was reported that 26 members of the Zamalek Club's young swimming team, together with four of their mothers, had been confirmed to be infected with swine flu.

Abdel-Rahman Shahin, official spokesman at the Ministry of Health, stresses that despite the growing number of confirmed cases of swine flu they represent a tiny fraction of Egypt's population of 80 million. "At the moment the virus is very mild and can be treated with an aspirin and a few days of bed rest," says Shahin. "We will not buy a vaccine that costs the country millions of dollars unless it is needed."

"We are expecting more swine flu cases, especially after the end of the omra season and the beginning of the hajj. Egypt's hospitals cannot accommodate such numbers," says Shahin. Accordingly, only patients under five years of age or of 65 and above will be admitted to hospital. "Pregnant women and those with medical conditions such as asthma, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes will also be hospitalised in order to avoid complications," Shahin added.

Ministry of Health announced the death of the second case of swine flu virus, H1N1, and affirmed. Amr Kandil, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive Affairs in a press statement that the second case, called "Bossi-Mursi Muhammad" 25-year-old died at a hospital in Sadr city of Mansoura Daquhliya the Nile Delta

The country has reported 783 cases of the A/H1N1 flu, and 716 of them have recovered.

On the other hand today the ministry of health announced the discovery of 16 new H1N1 infection cases. 15 of them are Egyptians , 12 were connected to previously discovered cases , 3 were not connected to any previously discovered cases.

The remaining case is from Poland and came from there.

Our infection toll accordingly has raised to 799

717 cases have recovered , 2 died and the rest are still in the hospital.