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Rabat- Moroccan Health Minister Anas Doukali announced Saturday in Rabat that the H1N1 flu has caused nine deaths in Morocco this week.
"The epidemiological situation remains normal compared to previous years," the minister told the Moroccan press agency SPA.
Wednesday's media reported the first death. Since then, disturbing rumors have circulated on social networking sites.
The official record Thursday was five dead, announced the Ministry of Health.
On the same day, government spokesman Mustapha al-Khaliji said that "efforts are continuing to monitor all cases registered in a hospital".
Swine flu is the common name for H1N1, a respiratory disease caused by contact with pigs and transmitted from person to person by inhalation.
In 2009, following the announcement of cases in the United States and Mexico, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a pandemic warning in 2010.
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