A Kuwaiti official has confirmed that eighteen US soldiers have developed H1N1 flu, as the first cases of the disease in the Arab country.
"They are 18 US soldiers that were confirmed with the virus upon their arrival from their country to the military base (in Kuwait)," Ibrahim al-Abdulhadi, undersecretary of the health ministry told Reuters on Sunday.
Kuwait's states news agency, KUNA, on Saturday had quoted an unnamed government official as saying that an unspecified number of US soldiers have been detected with H1N1 flu.
Kuwait is the first country in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region in which cases of swine flu have been reported.
Kuwait is a logistics base for the US troops in Iraq.
Courtesy: Press TV
"They are 18 US soldiers that were confirmed with the virus upon their arrival from their country to the military base (in Kuwait)," Ibrahim al-Abdulhadi, undersecretary of the health ministry told Reuters on Sunday.
Kuwait's states news agency, KUNA, on Saturday had quoted an unnamed government official as saying that an unspecified number of US soldiers have been detected with H1N1 flu.
Kuwait is the first country in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region in which cases of swine flu have been reported.
Kuwait is a logistics base for the US troops in Iraq.
Courtesy: Press TV
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