Egypt - Human H5N1 Confirmed / Suspected - December 15, 2008 to February 7, 2009

[Sally Furniss]

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Family admitted to bird flu ward in hospital and given tamiflu -


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من 5 أفراد بأنفلونزا الطيور

5 members from bird flu
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الغربية- علي أبودشيش:

West - Ali Oboudecic:
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احتجز أمس مستشفي حميات المحلة عبدالستار فتحي "45 سنة" معاون بيطري "وزوجته وأبناءه الثلاثة" داخل القسم المخصص للحالات المشتبه في اصابتها بمرض انفلونزا الطيور وذلك بعد ظهور أعراض المرض عليهم من ارتفاع في درجات الحرارة وآلام شديدة بالمفاصل وسعال شديد حيث تم اعطاؤهم عقار التامفلو وسحب عينة من دمائهم وارسالها إلي المعامل المركزية بوزارة الصحة.

Hospital admitted yesterday detained Mahala Fathi Abdul Sattar, "45 years" associate veterinarian, "and his wife and his three sons" in the section devoted to cases of suspected bird flu, after the emergence of symptoms of high temperature and severe pain, severe cough and joints, where the drug was given and the withdrawal of Altamflo a sample of blood sent to the laboratory and the central Ministry of Health.

كما قامت لجنة من الطب البيطري بإعدام أكثر من عشرة من طيور البط كانت موجودة بحظيرة المنزل وتطهير المكان وفرض كردون أمني لحين وصول نتائج التحاليل لمعرفة مدي إصابتهم من عدمه.

It also has a committee of veterinary medicine to death more than a dozen ducks were Bhzirp the house and cleaning up the place and the imposition of Kerdoun security until the arrival of the results of tests to determine the extent of the injury or not.

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/accedents/detail09.asp

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systran translation http://www.systran.co.uk/

The suspecting in injury is family

From 5 individuals [b'anflwnzaa] the birds

The Westerner - on ['abwdshysh]:

Detained yesterday hospital the feverish district AbdulSattar is openings “45 year” veterinary assistant “and his wife and his sons the three” inside the specialized section for the suspected cases in hit her in illness influenza of the birds and that after appearance offers of the illness on them from rise in degrees the heat and tough pains in the cutters and tough cough where was complete [aae'Taau'hm] drug [aaltaamflw] and clouds of sample from their blood and sending her to the central factories in ministry of the health.

Just as committee from the medicine rose veterinary in execution more than the ten from birds ducks was present in pen the blessing

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/health...50B6BB20090112

Egyptian girl has bird flu, 2nd case this season
Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:27am IST

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian girl of 21 months has contracted bird flu and is in hospital in stable condition, a health ministry official said on Monday.

She is the 52nd case among humans in Egypt and the second of this winter season.

The girl, named as Asmaa Mohamed Salah Ismail, showed the first symptoms on Friday and was admitted to a specialist hospital on Saturday, said assistant health minister Nasr el-Sayed, quoted by the state news agency MENA.

The other Egyptian to contract the deadly virus this year, a woman near the southern town of Assiut, died on December 15. From the 52 human cases in Egypt over almost three years, 23 have died, but the number of cases seems to be diminishing.

The girl, from the village of Kerdasa on the western edge of Cairo, had been in contact with infected birds and showed the usual first symptoms -- a high temperature, vomiting and diarrhoea, Sayed said.

She is receiving the antiviral drug Tamiflu, which has proven effective against bird flu if treatment starts early.

Since the first case in 2003 there have been 248 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain of bird flu and at least 394 confirmed cases of infection. Egypt has had more cases than any country outside Asia.

(Writing by Jonathan Wright; Editing by Jon Boyle)

[Sally Furniss]

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Mr. Al-Nasr, assistant secretary of health and population affairs, preventive and primary care for the No. 52 human infection of bird flu as a result of contact with domestic birds and dead birds infected with the disease.

Dr. Nasr said that the situation of Mr. girl called the names of Muhammad Salah Ismail, a 21-month Krdasp of the province, the sixth of October, adding that the symptoms have appeared on the situation on Friday and entered the hospital on fevers Imbaba on Saturday, has been suffering from high temperature, vomiting and diarrhea.

Dr. Nasr said that once the suspicion of being infected with the disease were given the drug Altammivo and transferred earlier in the day to the hospital in the Tamiflu drug and in stable condition.

On the other hand, said Adly Hussein, governor of Qaliubiya it decided to stop the operation of 71 poultry farm for a period of 6 months and their owners fined amounts ranging from 10 to 20 thousand pounds, due to lack of implementation of the decisions to maintain to prevent the smuggling of poultry and to allow the inspection teams to follow up preventive measures to control bird flu.

"There has been completed, 5.5 million birds vaccinated against the disease has not been any injuries to maintain the disease since the month of February 2008, were also seized a car packed with 181 birds without a permit and the removal of 4061 in the shanty towns a total of 16 thousand birds.

The governor agreed to establish a new abattoir half to the status of the poultry birds Tok 2000 card at 4 in the other massacres are being established and the abolition of 4 other approvals for the massacres of the lack of seriousness in their implementation.

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[Sally Furniss]

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Declaration on the situation of the 52 cases of bird flu in Egypt
Health 12/01/2009 09:40:00 PM

Cairo - 12-1 (KUNA) - The Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt's No. 52 human infection of bird flu Bmrs Sixth of October governorate south of Cairo, described the condition as "stable."

The assistant secretary of health and population for preventive and primary care, Dr. Sayed said in a statement that the situation of the girl, aged 21 months, a result of contact with domestic birds and dead birds infected with the disease.

He added that Mr. symptoms appeared on the girl last Friday and entered the hospital, where their suffering from high temperature, vomiting and diarrhea, adding that as soon as the suspect in the deadly virus, the drug was given Altammivo and their health is now stable.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1967495&Language=ar

[HenryN]

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Map updated

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.00045e1b927e68d58eab0&t=p&ll=29.745302,31.135254&spn=8.008163,12.744141&z=6

[HenryN]

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Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/01120901/H5N1_Cairo_Suburb.html

[AlaskaDenise]

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Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/01...ro_Suburb.html

Commentary

H5N1 Confirmed Case in Cairo Suburb
Recombinomics Commentary 20:50
December 15, 2008


The girl, named as Asmaa Mohamed Salah Ismail, showed the first symptoms on Friday and was admitted to a specialist hospital on Saturday,

The girl, from the village of Kerdasa on the western edge of Cairo, had been in contact with infected birds and showed the usual first symptoms -- a high temperature, vomiting and diarrhea

The above comments describe the second confirmed H5N1 case in Egypt this season (see 2009 map) The cases in December and January match initial cases last season in timing and location. Last season most of the cases were fatal, as was the first case this season.

Although reporting of H5N1 in poultry has not been actively covered in the media, which is due in part to Egypt?s announcement last season that H5N1 had become endemic. Therefore, reports of H5N1 in birds are filed every 6 months.

Last season at this time there was also an outbreak of vaccine resistant H5N1 in birds in Egypt and Israel, and one of the final confirmed cases last season was due to the vaccine resistant strain and the patient was also from Cairo. The isolate from that patient was selected by the WHO as a new H5N1 clade 2.2 target.

Sequence data on the cases this season would be useful.

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[Giuseppe]

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Egypt: New human case of avian influenza - World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

New human case of avian influenza

Case number 52

12 January 2009

The Ministry of Health and Population (MOH), Egypt, reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza on 12 January 2009.


The case is a 21 months old female from 6th October Governorate, Kerdasa District. The symptoms started on January 9. The patient was admitted to Imbaba Fever Hospital on the 10th with fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea and rapid respiration.

The case was immediately suspected as avian influenza and given medical treatment, Tamiflu, 40 hours after the onset of symptoms.

Investigations showed very close contact with sick and dead poultry since one week.

Currently, the patient is in a good health condition.

This brings up the total number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 52 with 23 deaths.
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<cite cite="http://www.emro.who.int/index.asp">World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean</cite>

[Giuseppe]

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CIDRAP >> Egyptian child has H5N1 infection

Egyptian child has H5N1 infection

Lisa Schnirring * Staff Writer
Jan 13, 2009 (CIDRAP News) ?

A 21-month-old Egyptian girl has been hospitalized with an H5N1 avian influenza infection, the country's health ministry said yesterday.


The World Health Organization (WHO), in a statement posted yesterday on the Web site of its eastern Mediterranean office, said the girl's symptoms started on Jan 9 and she was admitted the next day to Imbaba Fever Hospital with fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, and rapid respiration. Her illness is listed as Egypt's 52nd H5N1 case.

The patient is from Kerdasa district, in 6th of October governorate on the western outskirts of Cairo. Her medical team immediately suspected avian influenza and treated the girl with oseltamivir (Tamiflu), 40 hours after the onset of her symptoms, according to the WHO report.

An investigation into the source of the girl's infection suggests that she had close contact with sick and dead poultry before she got sick, the WHO reported. The girl is recovering and is in good health.

Egypt reported its last human H5N1 case about 5 weeks ago, in a 16-year-old girl from Asyut governorate who died on Dec 15 after exposure to sick and dead poultry in her household, according to previous reports. The WHO listed the girl as Egypt's 51st case and its 23rd death.

Meanwhile, veterinary authorities in Egypt recently reported avian influenza outbreaks among backyard birds in two governorates, according to recent updates that appeared on the Egypt-based Strengthening Avian Influenza Detection and Response (SAIDR) Web site. SAIDR, a project funded by the US Agency for International Development with assistance from Johns Hopkins University, is designed to help Egypt coordinate avian flu efforts with its international partners.

One of the outbreaks, reported Dec 31, occurred in Fayoum governorate in central Egypt, where the virus struck 36 birds, including chickens, geese, and ducks that had been vaccinated in August 2008. The other outbreak, reported on Jan 9, occurred in Menofia governorate in northern Egypt, where the virus hit 34 previously vaccinated chickens and ducks.

The H5N1 virus is endemic in Egyptian poultry. The country's last report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in mid-June 2008 detailed an outbreak in backyard birds in Luxor governorate.

In other developments, health officials in China said yesterday that they had found no evidence in the wake of the recent death of a 19-year-old woman from an H5N1 infection that the virus has mutated to allow easier human-to-human transmission, according to a Reuters report yesterday. The report did not say where the genetic analysis of the virus was done and did not list any other details about the findings.

Mao Qunan, a health ministry spokesman, relayed the expert assessment to reporters at a news conference. He reminded the public to protect themselves from the virus but said they "should not have unnecessary fears," Reuters reported.
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<cite cite="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jan1309egypt-br.html">CIDRAP >> Egyptian child has H5N1 infection</cite>

[sharon sanders]

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The stability of the health situation of the girl child infected with bird flu



Sana Mustafa wrote *: stabilized the situation of the affected No. * 52 * Bannaglonza of bird names for the girl child from the town of Muhammad Salah Krdasp of the province, the sixth of October, which is * * hospital treatment of the Tamiflu drug *. had been infected with bird flu, the result of exposure to dead chickens in her home * *. كما قامت ادارة الطب الوقائي* بالوز

ارة*. and Preventive Medicine Department of the Ministry * *. وأكد الدكتور حاتم ا

لجبلي* وزير الصحة باجراء مسح لعينات من حلق أم الطفلة المصابة للتأكد من اصابتها بالفيروس من عدمه*. وجاءت نتائج التحاليل لباقي* اسرة الطفلة سلبية خالية من انفلونزا الطيور*. ,

Dr. Hatem el-Gabali * Minister of Health survey samples of the patient or hours to make sure whether or not infected with the virus *. The results of tests for the rest of the family of the girl child * negative free of bird flu


*. صرح الدكتور عبدالرحمن شاهين المتحدث الرسمي* للوزارة بان عدد الاصابات* يفيروس انفلونزا الطيور منذ ظهور المرض بالبلاد بلغت* 52* حالة توفي* منهم* 23* حالة بسبب عدم سرعة الابلاغ* عن الإصابة بالفيروس في* وقت حدوثها*. كما تقرر استمرار توفير عقار التاميفلو في* جميع مستشفيات الحميات والامراض الصدرية ومراكز الرعاية الصحية الاولية لسرعة اسعاف الحالات المصابة وعدم تدهور المريض*. كما تقرر تطعيم جميع الطيور ضد فيروس الانفلونزا من خلال مديريات الشئون البيطرية بالمحافظات،* وتقوم ادارة الطب الوقائي* بتنظيم حملات علي* المنازل بالقري* في* المحافظات والمناطق النائية والعشوائية بالاشتراك مع ادارات الحكم المحلي* لإزالة العشش واماكن تربية الطيور القريبة من منازل المواطنين*. ,

said Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, spokesman for the Ministry of * that the number of casualties * Iveros emergence of bird flu since the disease hit the country's * 52 * case of them died * * 23 * the case because of the lack of prompt reporting * on HIV * in real time *. also decided to maintain the provision of Tamiflu, a drug in all hospitals * fever, respiratory infections and primary health care centers to speed aid and non-infected cases, the deterioration of the patient *. also decided to vaccinate all poultry against the influenza virus by veterinary departments in governorates, * The Department of Preventive Medicine * organizing campaigns * * houses in the villages * provinces and remote areas and slums in partnership with local government departments * to remove the nests and breeding places of birds close to the homes of citizens *.

http://www.alwafd.org/details.aspx?nid=9969

[Giuseppe]

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WHO | Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update (1/14/2009)

Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update

14 January 2009 --

The Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt has announced a new human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.


The case is a 21-months old female from 6th October Governorate, Kerdasa District whose symptoms began on 9 January 2009.She was initially hospitalized on 10 January and is currently in a stable condition.

Infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus was diagnosed by PCR at the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory and subsequently confirmed by the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (NAMRU-3) laboratories.

Investigations into the source of her infection indicate a recent history of contact with sick and dead poultry.

Of the 52 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 23 have been fatal.
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<cite cite="http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_01_14a/en/index.html">WHO | Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update</cite>

[Laidback Al]

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The current confirmed human case from Kirdasah is located within the 6th October Governorate. This governorate along with Helwan Governorate were created in 2008 from the rural districts surrouding Giza and Cairo as noted in the article below. I was not able to find any exact boundaries for either of these two new governorates. There are now 28 governorates within Egypt.

On 17 April [2008] two new governorates, Helwan and the Sixth of October, were created by presidential decree, bringing the total to 28. The move eases the burden placed on Cairo and Giza, Egypt's most densely populated governorates, by effectively stripping them of their outlying districts. Fathi Saad leaves his current post as governor of Giza to take over at Sixth of October while Mohamed El-Quwedi has been appointed governor of Helwan.
The restructuring provoked clashes between local residents and security forces in Al-Wahat Al-Bahariya, which lies 300km from Sixth of October, over the decision to place the oasis under the jurisdiction of Minya governorate and not Sixth of October. Protesters threatened to close down local mines in the oasis in an attempt to pressure the government to rescind the decree. Anti-riot police used tear gas against 2,000 demonstrators who set light to tires and more than 20 people were detained. Bahariya residents were disappointed as the presidential decree has "moved" them from Giza governorate to its southern neighbour, Minya, 240km south of Cairo. The changes meant they would have to travel up to 600km to access government and administrative services in Minya governorate, instead of the 300km to Sixth of October City.
After an emergency meeting at the National Democratic Party's (NDP) General Secretariat, the presidential decree was subsequently amended. Minister of Housing and Urban Communities Ahmed El-Maghrabi declared after the meeting that Al-Wahat Al-Bahariya and Ayyat, which had been affiliated to Fayoum, would come under the jurisdiction of Sixth of October. The decree also placed Atfih and Al-Saff, which used to belong to the Giza governorate, under Helwan.
"The final borders of Helwan, Fayoum, Beni Sweif, Minya and Sixth of October governorates will be fixed by the beginning of May by the ministries of housing and urban communities, agriculture and land reclamation and other concerned authorities," announced Mohamed El-Demerdash, assistant to the minister of housing.
The Helwan governorate will include Maadi, Helwan, 15th May City, New Cairo, Haikstep, Badr and Al-Shorouk cities. The Sixth of October governorate will include Sixth of October City, Al-Wahat Al-Bahariya and extend across Wadi Al-Natrun to the borders with Marsa Matrouh.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/894/eg6.htm

[HenryN]

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The current confirmed human case from Kirdasah is located within the 6th October Governorate. This governorate along with Helwan Governorate were created in 2008 from the rural districts surrouding Giza and Cairo as noted in the article below. I was not able to find any exact boundaries for either of these two new governorates. There are now 28 governorates within Egypt.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/894/eg6.htm

The location is on Google maps

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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The 29 Egyptian governorates can be found here:

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6th october governorate

[HenryN]

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Egyptian baby contracts bird flu--WHO



Agence France-Presse
First Posted 20:44:00 01/15/2009

Filed Under: Health, Diseases


GENEVA?An Egyptian toddler has contracted bird flu, the 52nd case to be reported in the country, the World Health Organization said on its website Thursday.
Most of the victims have been young girls or women, who are generally charged with looking after poultry in the countryside, and 23 have died of the disease.
The UN agency, quoting the Egyptian health ministry, said the latest victim was a 22-month-old girl, from Kerdasa district in Sixth of October governorate in northern Egypt, who fell ill on January 9 and was hospitalized the following day.
"Investigations into the source of her infection indicate a recent history of contact with sick and dead poultry," the WHO said, adding that her condition was stable.
A 16-year-old Egyptian girl from a village near the central city of Assiut, who died in mid-December, was the most recent fatal case. Egypt has the highest death toll from bird flu outside Asia.
The H5N1 strain of the virus that is most dangerous to humans first emerged in Asia in 2003 and has since caused nearly 250 deaths, according to WHO figures.
Scientists fear that a mutation of the bird flu virus resulting in a strain easily transmitted among humans could create a pandemic, potentially affecting up to one-fifth of the world's population.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20090115-183585/Egyptian-baby-contracts-bird-flu--WHO