ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia has confirmed its first cases of H1N1 flu virus, Health Death Minister Tewedros Adhanhom said on Friday.
It was the second country after South Africa to report the deadly flu.
"Since swine flu was declared in Mexico, Ethiopia has been free of the disease. But today we can confirm two cases," he said.
Both were teenage girls who arrived back in the country on Saturday for a break from their U.S. high school, he said. "We have enough drugs to treat 100,000 people should it break out," Tewedros said.
(Reporting by Barry Malone, writing by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura)
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This is very sad news but I don't think the adwa crime minster would care about Ethiopia. Crime minster abebe (leges, meles) who is like changing his identity is transporting the medicines to adwa to protect just for his own relatives. He already said in the rally you tigray people i'm proud of you. I never heard in history a prime minster who is not proud of his county but meles he is.
June 20th, 2009 at 2:33 am
sleep with one eye open!!!!am gone bury you in ur beloved shabia grave!!!
June 20th, 2009 at 4:36 am
It is good news for Woyane to have an addition to his VIRUS BANK which will be used to eliminate his "enemies".
June 20th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Let us scrutinize the Woyanes activities. These evil entities might use Swine Flue to exterminate their opponents.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:18 am
I don't trust them. Sorry
June 20th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Dear Elias, this is the kind of news we do not want. The above revelation by weyane is to get some money from WHO.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Death minister Tewodros Adhanom, you are the one who was responsible for the spread of HIV/AIDS in the last 10–15 years. Listen Dr. Death go and fool others, we Ethiopians know who you are and how cruel TPLF is.
G. mamo
June 20th, 2009 at 11:14 am
The first case of the swine flu was confirmed in Ethiopia 18 years ago, and this swine flu is Meles Seitanawi. Since then it has killed many Ethiopians who have no resistance to this killer flu, but now they say that Dr. Berhanu Nega has discovered a scientifically proven cure for the Ethiopian Swine flu. Stay tune!
June 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Death Minister Tewodros Adhanom pls don't terrorize the poor nation . It is just to frustrate the people and to divert the national issue that the citizens focus on . For Ethiopians N1H1= TPLF regime. There is nothing else.
June 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
#2 what an idiot person are you? What is your problem? You don't want us to hear the news? Although this news is good news for the grange in Addis as it will help them to decimate many innocent people, it is informative for us. Remember the health minister said he have medicine for 100,000 for a population of Ethiopian 80 million. It’s obvious this 100,000 MED will be used to treat selectively Tigray (to be exact Adwa and surrounding). By the way your woyane is in life support waiting anxiously for the heroic Ethiopian freedom fighters to unplug the cord. እንተ ኮነስ እቲ ደንጎላ ርእሲካ ደአ ከምቲሪዳእ አይገበረካን እምበር. ወይ ከአ እንዳፈለትካ ደኪስካ አሎካ አራይ ኩእንቲ ዝኮንካ ፍትረት. ሻቢያ ሻቢያ አይትበል . ሳላ ሻቢያ ኢካ አብ አዲስ አበባ ኮፍ ኢልካ ዘለካ. ወልፋስ.
June 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Elias, You have to take seriously those who threaten your life, even if they are joking, such as the #2 above by the name "Elias Kifle's killer." You should track his IP and let him/her know that they could be held accountable for making such threats. When bankrupt individuals' ideology fail they resort to name calling and death threats. This should not be tolerated, regardless of how serious or not.
June 20th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
H1N1 virus is not worse than malaria,tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS.It is not 100% fatal most of the cases can be cured with out any treatment.
Here is the truth:
Health officials of developing countries often times grab money using epidemics as means of asking for aid.
Let us take polio eradication:Polio was supposed to be eradicated from Africa 2-3 years ago but there is always something delaying its eradication i.e the health officials intentionaly play a role for the sake of getting external aid.
The same is true for the other infectious diseases.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
G7 anti woyane injection is the best alernative for all sleepless woyanes.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
It is awful to read this kind of comment from the people who grow up in Ethiopia. This virus is very scary to our beloved people but not our poltics, everybody (the commenter) enjoy their life in Europe and North America they say as they like please try to think twice for our people rather than our poltics.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Hey zat funny biologist (but boss of doctors) is revealing his ignorance once again.
H1N1 is a purely viral disease that cannot be TREATED as such. But spread can be limited and patients Need supportive therapy which is far sophisticated for eth health care system.
Now, while countless ethiopians are dying of easily treatable problems like malaria and tuberculosis (which have straight forward diagnosis and freely available treatment), he is telling us he will treat hundreds of thousands of swine flu. IGNORANCE!
June 21st, 2009 at 8:57 am