The General Directorate of Health Affairs in Makkah has tightened control on a hotel in the central area of the Grand Mosque where a 9-year-old Malaysian boy was found suffering from swine flu. Earlier Wednesday, the Ministry of Health announced five new cases of swine flu A(H1N1) bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Kingdom to 22. A specialized team in preventive medicine inspected the hotel and examined all the family members of the affected child and distributed awareness pamphlets to the guests. A source at the Health Directorate in Makkah said thermal cameras at Jeddah's King Abdul Aziz Airport had detected that the boy was having high temperature. A swab test confirmed that he had A(H1N1) influenza virus. A medical team rushed to the hotel and referred all the family members, including the child, to King Faisal Hospital in Makkah. Another new cases were detected in two Filipina nurses who had been in contact with the Filipina nurse announced as carrying the virus on Tuesday, and a child aged two years and three months who had had contact with a woman previously confirmed as carrying the virus at the Aramco Hospital in Dhahran. The fifth instance of the virus was found in a nurse of Filipina nationality who entered the Kingdom from the Philippines via Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on Saturday. The woman is being treated in quarantine at Riyadh's King Abdul Aziz Medical City Hospital of the National Guard. The symptoms includde fever, a cough, a runny nose, swelling of the throat, aches in muscles and joints, headache, lethargy.
