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By Mash-hour Abu Eid
AMMAN, Sept 8 (KUNA) -- The communicable disease swine flu is alarmingly
spreading among students in the kingdom with the authorities declaring six new
cases among the youth at three schools in the capital Amman.
Dr. Adel Al-Balbisi, the director of health care at the ministry of health,
said in a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Tuesday that four of the
new cases were students of a school that was shut, last week, after discovery
of the break-out of the infectious disease among the students.
The two other students suffering from the disease were from two schools, he
added.
The Jordanian authorities have advised schools to close a class with a
swine case and close the whole school if the disease spread to more than one
class.
On Monday, the Jordanian authorities declared five new swine cases, four of
which were discovered at a school where four had been reported recently.
Number of the swine flu patients in the kingdom has reached 176 since last
June.
The national medicines authority confirmed in a statement that the kingdom
has no stockpiles of the anti-swine flu vaccine. (end)
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