Dr. Badr Al-Mustafa confirmed that 182 suspected cases of swine flu were recorded in Al-Qatif Governorate during the past month, while suspected cases during this month reached 28 cases, while the number of deaths in the world reached 5 thousand people out of 5 million infections, indicating that the Kingdom has the largest share in the Gulf region With 4,119 injuries and 36 deaths, the increase worldwide is estimated to be five times what we are now. Dr. Al-Mustafa in a lecture entitled "Swine Flu ... Its Causes, Dangers and Methods of Prevention", for employees of the Civil Defense Department in Al-Qatif Governorate, organized by the National Committee to Combat Swine Flu, the day before yesterday, that the symptoms of the disease include high temperature, muscle pain, difficulty breathing, pain in the chest, pains in the throat and secretions From the nose and provide important directions to avoid and prevent disease, such as sterilizing and washing hands with soap and water and drying them well, especially after leaving the toilets or after placing the hand on the nose and mouth during coughing and sneezing. More than 80 employees of the Civil Defense Department in Al-Qatif Governorate attended the lecture on the stage of social development that lasted two hours and gave a visual presentation on the disease, its definition, methods of spread and its risks. He also talked about the beginning of the spread of the disease worldwide, explaining that one of the causes of its spread is the lets resulting from sneezing and coughing. The lecture, which was attended by the Director of Operations at the Civil Defense Department in Al-Qatif Governorate, Colonel Hussein Al-Naimis, his assistants and officers of the administration, was remarkably attended.