Botswana confirms its first swine flu case
13 July, 2009 in Botswana
source: Sunday Standard
by Angela Mdlalani
12.07.2009 9:29:31 A
The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Friday informed the media of the first confirmed case of the A (H1N1) influenza, generally referred to as Swine Flu 2009.
The Director of Public Health, Sheenaz El Halabi, said that the MoH received the results from the laboratory in South Africa this morning.
“We sent the specimen on the seventh of this month for testing and it was today, this morning, that we received the laboratory confirmation,” she said.
She said that the individual is a 49-year-old Motswana male who is [continue reading]
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