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Sat, 06/27/2009 - 18:36
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Yemen puts aside $ 5 million as it braces for H1N1 spread

SANA'A, June 26 (Saba) - Yemen has laid out a comprehensive plan to
combat a possible spread of the global pandemic commonly known as
H1N1, a measure which comes after the World Heath Organization
raised the pandemic alert level to phase 6.

Under the plan, Yemen has put aside about $ 5.04 million in finance
to provide necessary requirements to fight the pandemic.

Requirements will include 100 anti-H1N1masks, vaccine for a million
people, three H1N1 non-contact infrared thermometers that would be
placed in the provinces of Sana'a, Aden and Mukalla.

Other materials would be provided at the central test labs in Aden
and Mukalla as well.

Only five Yemeni people have been tested positive for the H1N1
pandemic, mostly students who came from abroad.

Measures to face the pandemic would be carried out in collaboration
with health offices across the republic, with special rooms provided
to keep infected cases to avoid further spread.

Though a few of the already infected people around the world have
died, the pandemic spreads very quickly in a short time.

Since it first began in Mexico on April 24 and then in the United
States, the H1N1 flu pandemic has spread in more than 104 countries
worldwide.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni authorities have warned the disease may gain
momentum in winter.

Up to 35.000 people have been confirmed infected with the virus
globally, of whom almost 200 people died.

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