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Iran brings H1N1 pandemic under control: minister

Xinhua, December 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Iran's health minister said Thursday that the country has brought the H1N1 outbreak under control.

Besides the attempts to contain the pandemic of the disease, precautionary measures must be taken as weaker waves of the seasonal flu may be back, Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi said.

The Iranian minister made the remarks during a visit to the central province of Kerman where the pandemic has claimed the lives of 33 people, according to Press TV.

He said around 600 people who contracted the virus in Kerman province have been hospitalized, adding that most of the fatalities were people with history of deficiencies in their immune system.

He also put the latest death toll from the H1N1 virus across Iran at 42 over the past month, including one person in the city of Karaj, 30 km west of the capital, Tehran.

Last year, the flu claimed 86 lives in the country.

Influenza A (H1N1) virus is the subtype of influenza A virus. In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared the new strain of swine-origin H1N1 as a pandemic.

This strain is often called swine flu by the public media. This novel virus spread worldwide and had caused about 17,000 deaths since the start of 2010. Endit