Nigerian pilgrim dies of swine flu – Daily Trust
November 23, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
A 17-year-old Nigerian girl and three other pilgrims died of swine flu soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi health officials said yesterday while announcing the first deaths from swine flu in this year’s hajj.
The Saudi Health Ministry said none of the victims had been vaccinated and that all of them fell sick within two to three days of arriving in the country. The three other victims were 75-year-olds from Sudan, India and Morocco. But Nigerian hajj officials denied the report, saying none of the 14 Nigerians who died in Saudi Arabia tested positive to swine flu.
The Saudi English language daily newspaper Arab News yesterday quoted the health ministry as saying that the four had not followed “recommended procedures, especially vaccination against H1N1.”
The Nigerian girl, whose name was not given, got the disease two days after arriving in Medina. “She was admitted to hospital with
