Two more A/H1N1 cases were confirmed in Egypt bringing the total number of infections in the populous country to 10 cases, spokesman of Minster of health Abdel Rahman Shahine said in a statement on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the two cases are an Egyptian and an American, who returned recently from the United States. The first case is an American engineer, who began to develop symptoms on June 9 after arriving on June 7.

The second case is an Egyptian citizen, who arrived in Alexandria on June 4 and began to develop symptoms on June 8.

Both were hospitalized and in stable condition.

Egypt reported seven A/H1N1 flu cases at a dorm of the American University in Cairo (AUC), the health ministry said Monday it will quarantine the dorm for seven days, which accommodates 110 students and 124 teachers.

On June 2, Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 influenza case, which was a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all the pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu.

Worldwide, about 27,000 people in 73 countries have been confirmed to be infected with the A/H1N1 flu virus, the latest WHO tally showed on Monday.

(Xinhua News Agency June 11, 2009)