{"id":56323,"date":"2019-12-26T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56323"},"modified":"2019-12-26T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T02:58:24","slug":"two-die-of-swine-flu-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56323","title":{"rendered":"Two Die Of Swine Flu In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (NNN-NINA) &#8212; Two people died of swine flu, also known as influenza A\/H1N1, and eight other cases were confirmed infected, in Iraq&#8217;s central province of Salahudin, a medical source said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two deaths are from one family in the village of al-Shakra, near the city of Shirqat, some 280 km north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Abdullah Ammash, a doctor from the city&#8217;s main hospital, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Eight suspected cases of swine flu were officially registered in the same village, and were transferred to Shirqat Hospital, where they were confirmed infected with the virus after laboratory tests,&#8221; Ammash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also called on the Salahudin&#8217;s Health Directorate and the Iraqi ministry of health to send medical assistance to control the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Directorate of Education in Salahudin, announced the suspension of all schools in the village and neighbouring villages until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H1N1 influenza is a highly contagious respiratory disease, with symptoms generally including upper respiratory problems, but the airborne illness can cause severe pneumonia and even death.&#8211; NNN-NINA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (NNN-NINA) &#8212; Two people died of swine flu, also known as influenza A\/H1N1, and eight other cases were confirmed infected, in Iraq&#8217;s central province of Salahudin, a medical source said. The two deaths are from one family in the village of al-Shakra, near the city of Shirqat, some 280 km north of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}