EGYPT - Feb 22 - March 1

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Egypt - Feb 22 +

Egyptian housewife tests positive for bird flu

26 Feb 2007 21:24:50 GMT

Source: Reuters

CAIRO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman from the Nile Delta town of Beheira has tested positive for the bird flu virus, Egypt's state news agency MENA said on Monday.

MENA identified the woman as Samia Mansour Hashem, a housewife who raised chickens in her home.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26516813.htm

From Min of Health:

New Human Avian Flu Contraction, Confirmed



A new human bird flu case was confirmed on Monday 26/02 in Beheira governorate. A woman, identified as Samia Mansour Hashim, 31, checked in Dmanhour Fever Hospital suffering from bird flu symptoms. Blood sample of the suspect bird flu case tested positive. After her health condition deteriorated, the woman was transferred to Alexandria Fever Hospital.

She was in close contact with sick domestic poultry. Chairman of the National Council for Youths Mohammed Safi El-Din Kharboush said on Monday the council is organising a public awareness campaign against the H5N1 virus.

In press statements, he said the campaign comes as part of public service projects carried out in the Egyptian rural areas and popular districts in cooperation with the veterinary medicine units, businessmen and investors. He added that youths' centres will host vet medicine units to enlighten people with means to face diseases that spread among birds and animals and contain the infected spots. He said medical convoys will be launched in cooperation with the universities of Assiut and Helwan in March and April to fight the virus.

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu01021173.htm

[Theresa42]

EGYPT - 31 year old from Al Buhayrah governorate confirmed(?)

Hat-tip, Dutchy!

From Min of Health:

New Human Avian Flu Contraction, Confirmed

A new human bird flu case was confirmed on Monday 26/02 in Beheira governorate. A woman, identified as Samia Mansour Hashim, 31, checked in Dmanhour Fever Hospital suffering from bird flu symptoms. Blood sample of the suspect bird flu case tested positive. After her health condition deteriorated, the woman was transferred to Alexandria Fever Hospital.

She was in close contact with sick domestic poultry. Chairman of the National Council for Youths Mohammed Safi El-Din Kharboush said on Monday the council is organising a public awareness campaign against the H5N1 virus.

In press statements, he said the campaign comes as part of public service projects carried out in the Egyptian rural areas and popular districts in cooperation with the veterinary medicine units, businessmen and investors. He added that youths' centres will host vet medicine units to enlighten people with means to face diseases that spread among birds and animals and contain the infected spots. He said medical convoys will be launched in cooperation with the universities of Assiut and Helwan in March and April to fight the virus.

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu01021173.htm

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...4&postcount=14

Al Buhayrah Governorate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Buhayrah_Governorate

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - 31 year old from Al Buhayrah governorate confirmed

You know -- there's no version of this report on the Ministry of Health's Arabic page...

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/ahtml/flu0101.htm

...and now it doesn't appear on the front page of the English page either...

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu0101.htm

??

[wdcare]

Egypt: 23rd bf victim a 4-yr-old girl

from Turkishpress.com:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=164687

Young girl infected with bird flu in Egypt
Published: 2/28/2007

CAIRO - A four-year-old girl became Egypt's latest victim of bird flu, the 23rd to be diagnosed since the virus was detected in the country, the official MENA news agency said on Wednesday.
Sara Essayyed Borhan, from the Nile Delta region of Dahaqliya, tested positive for the virus and was transferred to Cairo's Manshiet al-Bakri hospital late on Tuesday, the agency said, quoting its director Yussri Ragab.

The child was being treated with Tamiflu and was in a stable condition, while her family had all tested negative for the virus.

Thirteen people have died of bird flu since the H5N1 strain of the disease was first diagnosed in humans in Egypt in March 2006.

Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country with more than 73 million people, has been the country hardest hit outside of Asia by bird flu. Egyptians consume about 800 million fowl every year.


02/28/2007 16:13 GMT

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt: 23rd bf victim a 4-yr-old girl

More here:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17338

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Feb 22 +

I'm so confused...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

"The health" denies new injuries by the bird flu and a detention & 7 conditions in 4 governorates
Feb 28, 2007

The Ministry of Health denied yesterday the injury of new human cases by the bird flu in El-Behera Governorate or the other governorates.

And doctor Abdul Rahman Shahin said, the spokesman of the ministry the samples analyses result to all of the suspects in their injury came a passivity, and Shahin added to "The Egyptian Today": we did not declare any the cases of new injury by the bird flu. [Except for the 4 year old girl....]

And the new human injury news, that the news agency of "The Middle East" [MENA] reported the evening of the day before yesterday caused - Monday - in the occurrence of a confusion especially between the health officials for the knowledge of this news source, and doctor Amr Qandil the infectious diseases manager in the ministry said: I do not know the source of these information, but the certain that there is no new injuries.

And in the field she detained yesterday 7 new human cases in the fevers of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Qina and Al Fayyum and Al-Qalyubia, for their injury by symptoms similar to the bird flu.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=49585&r=t

[Theresa42]

Currently 68 (known) suspected cases

(Much overdue) updated list -- previous list 02/12.

There were 3 (or 4?) new confirmed cases reported.

55 new sus cases (if I've counted right) -- including one HCW.

And, there were 7 negatives reported.

I removed a bunch of old cases from the list -- chances are they were discharged a long time ago and we just haven't heard about them. I dropped anyone reported in January. (I have them on a 'dropped' list just in case).

Notes -- the dates are the news report dates on the patients -- not necessarily admission dates. Red = positive, green = negative, plain black = pending. Newly added case(s) in bold.

Any questions or mistakes/omissions, lemme know!


CONFIRMED CASES [since Dec]:

The 3 confirmed, deceased 'Farid' family members (died in Dec) were from Kafr Hanut, Al Gharbiyah

Warda Eid Ahmed (27) - d. 01/19 - from Beba centre, Bani Suwayf [she was in Giza Hospital]

Nouri Nadi (17) d. 02/02 - from Al Fayyum

02/14 - Nadia Abdel-Hafez [aka Nadia Mohammed Abdel Hafez], (37) - d. 02/15 - from Minyat Al Hayt, Atsa center, al Fayyum

02/16 - Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman (5M) - discharged 02/24 - Mchtol market near Bilbes, Ash Sharqiyah

? 02/26 - Samia Mansour Hashem - Beheira

02/27 - Sara Al Sayed Borhan (4F) - from Nabarouh center, Ad Daqahliyah governorate


SUSPECTED CASES: Currently 68 (known) suspected cases.

- ABBASSIA HOSPITAL, CAIRO - [currently 0 sus cases + 1 neg]

02/06 & 02/07 - Marzouqa Ramadan - from Al Fayyum - mother of Nouri Nadi - admitted 02/05 - reportedly "may have caught the virus from her daughter" -- reportedly tested neg on 02/07 -- NEG


- AD DAQAHLIYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 1 sus case + 1 pos]

02/25 - Shaaban Il - university student
02/27 - Sara Al Sayed Borhan (4f) - from Nabarouh center, Ad Daqahliyah governorate - POS


- ALEXANDRIA GOVERNORATE - [currently 4 negs]

02/25 - Woman - NEG
02/25 - Woman - NEG
02/25 - Child - NEG
02/25 - Child - NEG


- AL FAYYUM GOVERNORATE - [currently 12 sus cases + 2 conf cases + 6 negs]

02/05 & 02/07 - Nouri Nadi (17) d. 02/02 - began showing symptoms in late January (WHO reports Jan 25) - hospitalized on Feb 1 - one of the 4 unidentified females above? (she does, reportedly, have 3 sisters) - mother also hospitalized - POS
(02/06 & 02/07 - Marzouqa Ramadan - mother of Nouri Nadi - admitted 02/05 - reportedly "may have caught the virus from her daughter" - in Al-Abbasiya hosp in Cairo [counted in Cairo] -- NEG)

02/09 - Um Hashem Fathi Abdul Salam/Fatah Abd Al-Salam/Oum Hicham Fath Abdessalam (33F) - from "a district that the ash turned" [Dar ashes/Dar Rowed] in Al Fayyum city - suffer from double-pneumonia and high fever - 7 dead chickens in house
02/09 - Abd Al-Aziz/Emad Abdul Aziz Mohamed/Imad Abdelaziz Mohamed - from Mahfouz's hamlet village/Kafr Mahfoud - in Fever Hosp in Tamiyah? - ducks died in house & tested pos

02/10 & 02/11 - Naglaa Ahmed Atiya (24) - housewife from the village of Al Hit facility in Atsa center and its condition is critical - double pneumonia - in contact with bf pos poultry - NEG
02/10 & 02/11 - Hoda Kamel Ismail (40) from Dmou's facility Atsa center - double pneumonia - in contact with bf pos poultry - NEG
02/10 & 02/11 - Hussein Shehata on Shahat (30) - from Arafa mill Atsa center - double pneumonia - in contact with bf pos poultry - NEG

02/10 & 02/11 - Emad Saad (3) - from the West in Al Fayyum district - double pneumonia - in contact with bf pos poultry - NEG
02/10 & 02/11 - Nadia Ahmed Abdullah (38) - from the West in Al Fayyum district - double pneumonia - in contact with bf pos poultry - NEG
02/10 & 02/11 - Nayel's Ramadan Wibrhim (27) - a teacher from a village then Maine hand in Sinnuris district - double pneumonia - in contact with bf pos poultry - NEG

02/12 - Mohamed Qorani Ramadan (9) - from the farm of Arafa belonging to Rahmi's facility in Etsa district [Atsa center]
02/12 - Naglaa Othman Mohamed Saad (29) - housewife from the Sufi village

02/14 - Nadia Abdel-Hafez [aka Nadia Mohammed Abdel Hafez], (37) - d. 02/15 - from Minyat Al Hayt, Atsa center, al Fayyum - POS

02/16 - Saniyya Farag Abdul Hayy [Sunni Faraj Abdalhi] (23) - from the brave place - double pneumonia & fever
02/16 - Khamis Sayed Abdul Rahman (16) - student - from Al-Roda village - double pneumonia & fever
02/19 - Samia Eissa Abdul Salam (36F) - Srsna village, Tamiyah district - sus poultry deaths in house
02/19 - Sahar Mohamed Ghanem (27f) - Sonbat village, Al Fayyum district - sus poultry deaths in house
02/23 - 4 unnamed suspected cases


- AL GHARBIYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 23 sus cases + 4 conf cases from Oct & Dec + 4 negs]

02/09 - Mohammed Hassan/Amina Mohamed Hassan (25) - housewife - resident in "endowments facility village"
02/09 - Mohamed Hugres/Rouhya Mohamed Hegres (35) - housewife - from "the district of Sir belonging to Koutor center"

02/09 - Mohamed Farouk (16) - poultry farm worker in Basyoun (where bf has been confirmed in poultry) - reportedly tested neg & was discharged -- NEG
02/09 - Sanaa Al Helali (42) - reportedly tested neg & was discharged -- NEG

02/11 - Ahmed Mohamed appreciates (35) - an employee [poultry worker?] from the village of Sbrbae belonging to Tanta center
02/12 - Nafisa Abdul Ati - housewife from Ziad's district village in Samanoud district
02/12 - Ahmed Mohamed Al Esawi (30) - from Sabarbay Village belonging to Tanta center
02/14 - Shouta Al Neanai - housewife in Koutor
02/16-02/20 - Shadia Ahmed Hammam (31F) - housewife - from the upper regions belonging to the Mahallah district - in Banha Fevers Hosp - transferred to El-Mahalla El-Kubra on 02/20
02/16 - "Abdelcader the cook" [Abdulkadir Ataba] (25F) - housewife - village of Sbrbae, Tanta center - in Banha Fevers Hosp

02/16-02/20 - Sattouta Mostafa Al Nanani [Stuth Mustafa Minni] (30F) - housewife - from the village of Bltag, Koutor center - in Banha Fevers Hosp - NEG

02/20 - Raafat Abu Ismail's satisfaction (20) - a worker from the district village behind Samanoud district
02/21 - Badriyah Hamid Talha (55)
02/21 - Mohammad Ashraf (16)

02/21 - Rowe Hamed al-Husseini (15 months) - NEG

02/23 - Omar Gad Mohamed [aka Omar Gad Al Sayed] (27) - a worker in a poultry farm from El-Mahalla El-Kubra
02/23 - Haitham Aboualsoud Gaballah (25) - a worker by the same farm from the luxury village
02/23 - Mostafa Mohamed Ammar (37) - from the tributary village Tanta district
02/23 - Al Rafie

02/23 - Mr. Mostafa Khalifa (42) - employee in the Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta district, Shoubz's village
02/23 - Mostafa (11) - son Mostafa Khalifa
02/23 - Ahmed (8) - son Mostafa Khalifa
02/23 - "the fulfillment" - son Mostafa Khalifa

02/25 - Ahmed's hopes - housewife - from Snadir village, Tanta
02/25 - Ayman Sayed Ahmed Abdul Hamid - from Tanta
02/25 - Gamalat Mostafa - from Tanta
02/25 - hope Mohamed Taha (31) - of the Rayya installation of Wakfs, Tanta


- AL MINUFIYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 8 sus cases]

02/08 - Ashraf Gomaah Farrag (42) - teacher - resident in Ashmun district - in Minuf hospital
02/08 - Hedaya Abdul Sadek - in Minuf hospital
02/09 - Mostafa Hamed Abouad/Ibtissam Moustapha Hamed abou Adass (21F) - from a village "the fingerprint cards" [Vita] of Minuf district
02/16 - Mohamed Aboukhlil (70) - housewife - from Kafr Arabs
02/21 - Ozh Ghani Dehashan (55)

02/23 - *HCW* - Yassin Mahmoud Abdul Mohsen (30) - an employee in the hospital - Shibin Al Kawm Fevers Hosp

02/23 - Samah Abdul Gawaad - from Srawa village, Ashmun district
02/23 - Samah Abdullah - from Srawa village, Ashmun district


- AL MINYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 0 sus case]

- AL QALUBIYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 5 sus cases]

02/23 - Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed (53) - a worker from Shubra Al Khaymah
02/23 - Ahmed Abdul Fattah Ahmed (37) - a worker from El-Shawarbi's village in in El-Kanater El-Khairiya

02/23 - Sahar Hassan Abdul Malik (35) - an employee
02/23 - Sally Saad Abdul Mottaleb (2 1/2) - Sahar Hassan Abdul Malik's child

02/23 - Hafez Hanafi hoped (30) - housewife from Assem's dead village Banha district


- ASH SHARQIYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 1 pos + 1 neg]

02/16 - Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman (5) - discharged 02/24 - Mchtol market near Bilbes, Ash Sharqiyah - POS
02/18 - Shaimaa Abdul Nabi Abdul Azim - child - neighbor of conf case Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman - NEG


- BANI SUWAYF GOVERNORATE - [currently 0 sus cases + 1 conf case]

01/17 - Warda Eid Ahmed (27) d. 01/19 - from Beba centre - transferred to Giza Hospital - POS


- DOMYAT GOVERNORATE (DAMIETTA) - [currently 3 sus cases]

02/08 - Eid Al Hawari - from Al-Roda village - hosp 02/07
02/08 - Al Shrbini - Fariskur city - hosp 02/07
02/25 - 40 year old woman - tailor village


- AL ISMA'ILIYAH GOVERNORATE - [currently 0 sus cases]

- QINA GOVERNORATE - [currently 12 sus cases]

02/06 - Ms. Gamalat Ahmed Osman (50) - from "west of the monastery"
02/08 - Unidentified housewife - reportedly hospitalized on 02/07 (same as Gamalat Ahmed Osman?) - hospitalized after "the discovery of an injury focus [in poultry] in its house"
02/09 - Soheir Mostafa Hammam - from El-Mokhadama village

02/12 - Star Ler Hammen Solomon(?) - from the sheikh village on Dshna center
02/12 - Abdella Mohamed Abbas - sibling to "Star Ler Hammen Solomon" - from the sheikh village on Dshna center
02/12 - "Allah Abbas Mohamed's morning" - from the sheikh village on Dshna center

02/19 - Woman from Al'aodayseya village
02/21 - Fattah (42)
02/21 - Ghada Ashraf Mahmoud (10)

02/25-02/27 - Ahmed Mohamed Atallah (34) - farmer - Al'azazeya Village in Dashna center
02/25-02/27 - Afaf Ghallab Abdul Sadek (26) - wife of Ahmed Mohamed Atallah - housewife - Al'azazeya Village in Dashna center
02/25-02/27 - Saadiya Rizk Abdullah (42) - cousin to either Ahmed or Afaf - housewife - Al'azazeya Village in Dashna center


- SUHAJ GOVERNORATE - [currently 1 sus case]

02/25 - Gamal Abdul Fattah Mahmoud (12) - from the monastery hamlet village, Dar Es Salaam


- PORT SAID [currently 3 sus cases] -

01/30 & 02/03 - India to iron (38F) - from the village of Sea Cow and raising birds found their home
01/30 & 02/03 - Mohamed (3 months) - India's baby

02/14 - Nadia Mohamed Saleh (27) - Ei-Kabouty village

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Feb 22 +

Machine-translated from Arabic:

Emergencies in Dakahlia [governorate] after the declaration of the injury 23 to the bird flu ..And the detention of a child in Qina
March 1, 2007

The institutions of fighting the bird flu disease in Dakahlia raised the readiness degree yesterday. Turning the house of Mr. Barham Al Baz in the village of "Kafr El Geneina" to a barracks to the groups of health and veterinary medicine and the security forces after the declaration of the injury of child Sara Al Sayed Barham "4 years" by the bird flu disease.

Dr. Abdul Karim Ali Al Sayed, the Ministry of Health deputy in Dakahlia, confirmed that the transfer of child took place the evening of the day before yesterday to to Al Bakri's facility hospital in Cairo, after its fulfilment 12 an hour under observation in the hospital of the Abbasid chest.

And he pointed out that it became clear that it is positive to the disease after holding the sample analyses to the child and that taking samples to the family totally and their number 14 an individual, in addition to 60 a person from the neighbours in the village.

And Reda Abdul Ghani by Reham confirmed, child Sara's aunt orphan the father, that she was the intermixture of birds over the house roof, pointing out that it [she] was injured by rise in the temperature and a vomiting, and have been transferred first to the central hospital of Nabarouh, the one that decided its transfer to the triumphant chest, where taking samples and their sending to Cairo took place, and the results came a positive to the disease.

And in Qina, the preservation fevers hospital detained the child Abdul Radi Khalafallah Khamis "3 years" for the injury by symptoms similar to the bird flu.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=49698&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=68472&postcount=3

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - 4 year old from Ad Daqahilyah confirmed bf case

Hat-tip, AnnieB!

First Bird Flu Infection Detected In Dakahlia
March 1st 2007

A four-year old girl has tested positive for bird flu in the Egyptian Nile Delta province of Dakahlia, a health ministry source said Thursday adding that this was the first case detected in Dakahlia.

The girl was reportedly in contact with domestic poultry, the source added.

She is currently being treated at a Cairo hospital. Her siblings are being tested for potential infection.

Meanwhile, a two-year old boy from Qena, in central Egypt, also suspected of carrying the virus has been hospitalized.

Since the first outbreak of bird flu in Egypt in 2005, 13 of 23 people who contracted the illness have died.

After an initial panic which saw many Egyptians getting rid of their birds, people in rural areas have since resumed raising poultry domestically to sell at public markets or as a source of cheaper protein.

A few weeks ago, the Egyptian government suspected that a mutated strain of the virus with "reduced susceptibility" to the Tamiflu vaccine had emerged.

Medical experts confirmed shortly afterwards that the virus had not mutated to a new more dangerous strain transmitted between humans.

http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_16672-First-Bird-Flu-Infection-Detected-In-Dakahlia.html

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Feb 22 +

Just looked through the current list of suspected cases and came up with these 6 "clusters" of suspected cases...

Al Gharbiyah governorate:

Two workers from the same poultry farm:
02/23 - Omar Gad Mohamed [aka Omar Gad Al Sayed] (27) - a worker in a poultry farm from El-Mahalla El-Kubra
02/23 - Haitham Aboualsoud Gaballah (25) - a worker by the same farm from the luxury village

Father and three children:
02/23 - Mr. Mostafa Khalifa (42) - employee in the Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta district, Shoubz's village
02/23 - Mostafa (11) - son Mostafa Khalifa
02/23 - Ahmed (8) - son Mostafa Khalifa
02/23 - "the fulfillment" - son Mostafa Khalifa


Al Qalubiyah governorate:

02/23 - Sahar Hassan Abdul Malik (35) - an employee
02/23 - Sally Saad Abdul Mottaleb (2 1/2) - Sahar Hassan Abdul Malik's child


Qina governorate:

02/12 - Star Ler Hammen Solomon(?) - from the sheikh village on Dshna center
02/12 - Abdella Mohamed Abbas - sibling to "Star Ler Hammen Solomon" - from the sheikh village on Dshna center
02/12 - "Allah Abbas Mohamed's morning" - from the sheikh village on Dshna center

02/25-02/27 - Ahmed Mohamed Atallah (34) - farmer - Al'azazeya Village in Dashna center
02/25-02/27 - Afaf Ghallab Abdul Sadek (26) - wife of Ahmed Mohamed Atallah - housewife - Al'azazeya Village in Dashna center
02/25-02/27 - Saadiya Rizk Abdullah (42) - cousin to either Ahmed or Afaf - housewife - Al'azazeya Village in Dashna center


Port Said:

01/30 & 02/03 - India to iron (38F) - from the village of Sea Cow and raising birds found their home
01/30 & 02/03 - Mohamed (3 months) - India's baby


And, just a small red-flag -- the HCW from Al Minufiyah governorate:

02/23 - *HCW* - Yassin Mahmoud Abdul Mohsen (30) - an employee in the hospital - Shibin Al Kawm Fevers Hosp

[sharon sanders]

Re: EGYPT - 4 year old from Ad Daqahilyah confirmed bf case

Thanks AnnieB.

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Feb 22 - March 1

New Egypt thread here:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17778