Dubai, 20 July-(ANA)-The Middle East registered its first H1N1 flu death after a 25-year-old Egyptian woman returning from Umrah, the lesser Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, died in hospital after testing positive for the virus, according to the Egyptian health ministry.
The woman arrived in Egypt on 16 July and was admitted to hospital in the Nile Delta province of Gharbia "suffering from rheumatic fever, lack of oxygen in the blood and a stroke", the official MENA news agency reports quoting health officials.
So far, Egypt has registered 130 cases of the H1N1 flu; about 56 percent are below the age of 20. (ANA)
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