The Health Ministry announced today detection of three new cases of Swine Flu (HINI-A). The first reported case was a 13-year old child at Aramco hospital in Dhahran. He is the brother of the patient announced earlier as infected by the disease. The second case was a Mauritanian 8-month female child whose father was announced yesterday that he had been infected in Madinah. The third case was a Filipino nurse at King Fahd National Guard hospital in Riyadh. With the addition of these three new cases, the number of swine flu reported cases so far in the Kingdom reached a figure of 14. The Health Ministry has urged people to avoid mixing with the infected people and to avoid gathering places were the disease was earlier detected in addition to adherence to the directives of the ministry and the other concerned authorities.
