By Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNew
ABIDJAN, ELFENBENSKYSTEN, 4 January 2011: The H1N1 infection toll in Egypt has risen to 2172 following a resurgent of the flu virus which infected some 838 people in the last week of 2010, according to Egypt’s MENA news agency .
Health Ministry spokesperson Abdel-Rahman Shahin said the latest figures showed that the current rate of swine flu infection was at levels often seen during the winter flu seasons.
He added that the infection rate in 2010 was lower than that of the same period in the previous year, with the total number of confirmed cases since October, 2009 to January, 2010 being 14.846.
H1N1 flu was first discovered in Mexico and the United States in 2009, quickly spreading across the world.
