Two more swine flu cases were diagnosed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, taking the total to eight in the Kingdom since the virus first appeared 10 days ago, the Ministry of Health said. Both cases were of people entering from the United States, one of them admitted at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh and the other – a woman – at Aramco Hospital in Dhahran, the ministry said. In a statement issued Saturday, the ministry pointed out that preventive and therapeutic procedures were being applied to the patients and those who came in contact with them as recommended by the National Plan for Prevention of Swine Flu and the World Health Organization. On Thursday and Friday four members of the same family, who had also arrived from the United States, tested positive for the A(H1N1) influenza virus. Meanwhile, Egypt reported three new cases of swine flu on Saturday, as two children and a Colombian woman tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus, bringing to 18 the total in the country. An Egyptian health ministry official told state news agency Mena the new cases were a 45-year-old Colombian woman and two children aged seven and eight.
