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First cases of swine flu in Malta
Jul 2, 2009, 8:58 GMT
Valletta, Malta - The first two cases of swine flu in Malta were confirmed Thursday, officials said.
Doctors are treating two 26-year-old men for the H1N1 virus, Parliamentary Secretary, Mario Galea, confirmed.
The two apparently contracted the virus which causes swine flu after travelling to Spain together with a group of 25 people.
Ten other members of the group which returned to Malta on Tuesday, are showing symptoms of swine flu, officials said.
All suspected cases and their families are under a voluntary quarantine.
Malta had so far been the only European Union country without a swine flu case, Galea said.
'It was a matter of when, not if. There is no need for alarm, we are well prepared,' Galea said.
The tiny Mediterranean island-state is the most densely populated EU country.
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Why not control Airport Arivals so we dont have to worry and the cruises and that will be cancellation of cruses to where is the flu like
Why voluntary quarentine?
I heard from 2 case it went up to 50 over a peiod of a week
This shows clearly that Malta is not controling the swine flu.
As soon as people are identified as infected they should be forced to be quarentined
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User1Jul 2nd, 2009 - 18:17:41
Malta is the most densly populated country in malta however, thats an average, cause you get cities like london and madrid that are more densly populated than Malta. I am a laboratory scientist working in Malta's national laboratory and we were aware that this is would eventually happen. Thousands of people contract the seasonal influenza and this is no different, just that being a new strain it is more suseptable to cause a an immune reaction and for symptoms to occur. The risk is for immunocomprimised and debilitated individuals, however, the consequences are equal to that of the ordinary influenza. You can confirm this with reliable sources such as the WHO
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