Swine Flu Prompts Quarantine At Egypt University
June 9, 2009 by admin
Health officials from the country of Egypt have put a university dorm under quarantine after they identified 2 cases of swine flu in US students.
The dorm in question is home to foreign students in Egypt attending American University in Cairo but right now it is in lockdown for more than 140 of those students.
Health officials indicate that the 2 students in question came to Egypt from the United States in May, but both took different flights to reach the country.
Police stand outside the dorm to make sure that nobody leaves or enters the building, and it is not know for how much longer the quarantine will be in place.
Swine flu has infected more than 19,000 people spanning more than 60 countries around the world.
More than 100 deaths from the virus have been reported since the outbreak, the majority of them from the country of Mexico.
