Egyptian Health authorities announced on Monday three new cases of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the number of such cases to 23 in the populous Arab country, Ministry of health said in statement.

According to the statement, two cases are for an American woman, 38 years old, and her daughter, 13 years old, who arrived from the United States on June 5, while the third case is a Sudanese woman,49 years old.

The three cases were hospitalized in where they received Tamiflu and their conditions were stable.

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

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

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.

(Xinhua News Agency June 16, 2009)