EGYPT - Jan 9, 2008 - February 25th

[Theresa42]

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Google-translated from Arabic:

Detect foci of avian influenza in poultry farms able
Jan 11, 2008

Registered poultry farms Qaliubia governorate of new infections contracted avian influenza. Discovered commissions veterinary samples positive for the disease within the village established the Great Climate Center of Kafr thanks. The execution of all poultry Palmzrotain.

And the Directorate of Health heat detained 11 people with respiratory symptoms were withdrawn blood samples for analysis at the Ministry of Health. Also decided to exit the other 11 cases were detained on suspicion of the disease and tests proved negative samples.

In Sohag detained Health Administration homemaker dietary Hospital on suspicion of being infected with the disease. And being withdrawn and the samples sent to labs central Ministry of Health.

In Fayoum decided to detain two women Hospital dietary after the emergence of symptoms they are feelings of Ramadan and "make profits collected" Alatamenh Centre, which is currently under cultivation in the laboratory analysis of samples central Ministry of Health.

In Beni Suef hospital dietary received 5 new cases of the Centre Nasser, and the results showed negative samples.

http://www.alwafd.org/v3/News/NewsDetail.php?id=1986&type=main&PHPSESSID=4ac23ee2c584e4d14c54e97baeba05d8

[Commonground]

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They're right next door to each other -- numbers 1 and 21 on the map here:

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

But, Ibrahim (Abraham) is such a common name in Egypt -- I don't know that we can guess at any relationship here.

From Post #44:

Magda al Izzat Ibrahim

So, can we take this "Ibrahim" from the same Governorate? Maybe not, if Ibrahim is a very common name.

[Laidback Al]

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Shatt `Ezbet el-Lahm, Damietta, Dumyat Governorate

Lat: 31.436700
Long: 31.807800

[HenryN]

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From Post #44:



So, can we take this "Ibrahim" from the same Governorate? Maybe not, if Ibrahim is a very common name.

Abraham in the Middle East is like Johnson in the US. Both are biblical and common.

[Laidback Al]

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In Fayoum decided to detain two women Hospital dietary after the emergence of symptoms they are feelings of Ramadan and "make profits collected" Alatamenh Centre, which is currently under cultivation in the laboratory analysis of samples central Ministry of Health.

feelings of Ramadan
?? 1/9/2008 "Ms. Emotions Razek" (30F) Centre Fayoum

"make profits collected" Alatamenh Centre
?? 1/11/2008 precious Mahmoud (33) from the village centre Alatamlh Team

[Shannon Bennett]

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Egypt villagers say poultry innocent in bird flu deaths

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In a dark and muddy alley in the Nile Delta town of Damietta, where Egypt's latest fatal bird flu victim Hanem Atwa Ibrahim lived, inhabitants fear the authorities more than the virus.
"It was the will of God that she died. The chickens had nothing to do with it," says Husseini Ahmed Amine, 54, a furniture maker who employs a son of the dead woman, who was aged 50.
Most of the inhabitants of the Ezbet el-Lahm district pay scant attention to the government's campaign against the H5N1 virus which, after a summer respite, killed four people, all women, in the space of a week over New Year.
Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali warned in December against "slackness in the preventive measures taken to fight bird flu especially as winter approaches."
But here, as elsewhere in the country, distrust of the government is widespread.
A national campaign to slaughter possibly infected birds is more often than not seen as just another threat from authorities in which people have no faith.
Ibrahim's death was the 19th fatality in Egypt where there has been a total of 43 cases of bird flu in humans since the disease was first recorded here in February 2006. Women and children have borne the brunt of the virus because of their role in taking care of domestic fowl.
"Listen to me: all these chickens, they don't kill them, they sell them off or eat them," says Hanane Essayyed Farhat, 42, a mother of four selling her poultry a few dozen metres (yards) from the latest victim's home.
"The state and businessmen profit from bird flu. It's all just about trying to get people to buy frozen chickens. That way they'll make money off our back," she adds.
The authorities recommend eating factory farmed chicken whose origins can be traced. Almost two years since H5N1 appeared in Egypt, the north African country has become one of the most affected countries in the world.
But despite a government ban on raising poultry on rooftops -- an age-old tradition in Egypt -- chicken, ducks and geese continue to squawk and quack from cages on most of this district's rooftops, alongside a multitude of pigeon coops.
According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation, Egypt and Indonesia are the countries most likely to see the virus mutate into a form that is contagious among humans, because of people's close contact with poultry.
It is a challenge to get people to stop raising and eating poultry in a country where meat is a luxury for most, and birds can be fed cheaply on food leftovers.
"I don't believe in bird flu. We look after our poultry, nothing can happen to them," says Amine. "What's more their factory chicken has no taste, you can't even tell it's chicken."
Many of those infected are fearful of revealing their symptoms as they would lose a source of revenue and they fear the anger of their neighbours throughout the village who may have their flocks slaughtered.
As a result, many sufferers are often hospitalised too late for the medical treatment to work.
Abdessalam Essayyed, 46, is one of Ezbet el-Lahm's few inhabitants to be fearful after his neighbour died.

"I immediately killed our ducks and chickens," he says, pointing to dried blood on the concrete floor in front of his poultry's small cage.
The Health Ministry recently called for heightened vigilance saying that preventative measures were not being implemented against the disease because of "a conviction that the virus has gone." According to the World Organisation for Animal Health, the highly infectious strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus can be eradicated if it is dealt with effectively in Egypt, Indonesia and Nigeria, where it has become endemic.


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[Siam]

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Investigations

44230 44230 السنة 132-العدد Year 132 - Issue 2008 2008 يناير January 11 11 3 من المحرم 1429 هـ 3 1429 e الجمعة Friday

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After the return of bird flu vaccines .. accused innocent!
Achieve: Ashraf Sadeq

Bird flu returned to Egypt and returned with the fear of falling new victims, and a massive loss of wealth may harbour. Increased fears echoed by some of the messages on the alter virus, and turn into a more vicious last year, Having turned accusing fingers for the return of bird flu, to the bait and said that it came from abroad has become corrupt or ineffective because of poor storage.

ـWhy returned avian influenza? .. What is the reality of gravity? .. What about the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture to eliminate it?

These questions and others, has been the subject of this investigation.

Dr. Hamed Samaha, board chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, in charge of the fight against bird flu, confirms that the vaccines imported from abroad clones value and efficiency is very high, and allowed entry only after calibration through the National Institute for the control of biological products line, not used any clones coming from abroad only if the international listing of the World Organization for medicine.

He pointed out that there are no clones Egyptian avian influenza and vaccines to be imported from the United States, Mexico, Italy and China.

During 2006 2007 billion were imported and 400 thousand doses sufficient to vaccinate poultry industry in Egypt, which amounts to more than one billion chickens a year.

Samaha explained that the bird flu again returned to Egypt for the following reasons:

* * Increases in the winter disease.

* * Migration of wild birds from cold areas, where there are injuries, to Egypt.

*. * Inaction in the process of immunization of poultry.

*. * Non-application of the vital safety conditions inside the farms.

** Inadequate massacres within the districts and transfer from one province to another.

*. * Non-reporting cases of the disease in farms and lack of commitment to stop the activity breeding birds for six months when the emergence of any infection.

* . * Educational bird houses in cities despite a decision prevention, and non-vaccinated chickens because this ministry is committed to vaccinate poultry in villages only.

* . * Back sale of live birds in the assignee.

The d. Samaha that so far has failed to demonstrate that the virus alter on the research and lab tests for the control of national production may harbour the Agriculture Ministry, a factory recorded internationally.

المتهم البرئ The accused innocent

For his part .. 1200 Veterinarian of youth for the purpose of vaccination in the villages, But so far not been covered only 40% of the poultry farmers in the villages and the reason for this lack of human and financial capacity, and also a lack of awareness on the gravity of rural disease, and the absence of general culture, Wahl rural fear of envy, When knock door to vaccinate birds do not provide us with only 50% or 60% of what they have, because they believe that we also have Snfrd taxes .. and required greater awareness of the media and places of worship.

The d. Nassar out that investment in the poultry industry in Egypt up to 18 billion pounds, and that the losses in the past year amounted to around two billion pounds, has been countless losses this year, is expected to be eliminated the disease completely within two months or three only, explaining that what had been provided compensation for the survival of avian influenza in the last year hit 150 million pounds, of which the Government provided 100 million and the General Federation of wealth husbandry 50 million , is all its score was discontinuing awards, has made the Ministry of Agriculture finally Cabinet request to divert 150 million pounds to meet the needs of the General Authority for Veterinary service to combat the disease and meet the needs of the vaccine, refrigerators and cars transporting doctors to villages , and protective clothing and compensation for new doctors, and we hope to agree, we asked last year similar figure has been providing only 35 million pounds, and the face of this disease need the support from all directions and the awareness of citizens how dangerous .

[Extrapolation]

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Thanks Siam -

- Extrapolation

[Siam]

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http://www.egyptiangazette.net.eg/

21 more suspected of catching bird flu

Staff report

Here birds are for sale in a Cairo location. Do sellers and buyers know how dangerous to deal with birds infected with H5N1?
Twenty-one Egyptians, including six children, were being tested for avian influenza after displaying flu-like symptoms, a Ministry of Health official said yesterday, but stressed that the tests were only a precaution.



The persons were being kept in isolation at the fever hospitals in the governorates of Sohag, Beheira, Minya, Qena and Gharbiya, said the official. They are currently undergoing tests to determine whether they are suffering from H5N1, he added.Biological samples have been sent to the central labs in Cairo for testing and results are expected soon, he added.He said that preventive measures had been taken and samples were taken from poultry raised at their home before the animals were killed.

[Theresa42]

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I just knew there were some political reasons behind some peoples' calls to get rid of the pig farms in Egypt....

Google-translated from Arabic:

Deputy brothers demanding the execution of pigs because of bird flu

Mohamed Al-Zeid 12/1/2008

Muslim Brotherhood deputy, Dr. Hamdi Hassan demanded that the government take swift action to execute pigs and keep it away from residential areas, pointing out that bird flu can be transmitted from birds to humans only through pigs.

He Hassan in the parliamentary question, which was made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, to all the officials know the seriousness of pigs, and yet millions of birds prefer execution to take action without one pig and one against, as he put it.

Hassan asked: Why not continue the information campaign to sensitize the pig breeders and consumers only a few days and then cut off? .. He expressed surprise at the statements made by Minister of Irrigation, said that the steps against bird flu were not at the required level.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=89711

[Theresa42]

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Google-translated from Arabic:

The detention of 10 new cases of suspected bird flu infection in 3 provinces

Nasser Al-Kashef, Abdel soldier and Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Omar Sheikh Mahmoud Minshawi 12/1/2008

Continued dietary hospitals in the provinces of new cases of detention on suspicion of being infected with avian influenza yesterday and the day before yesterday, were detained Damietta In 5 cases, while 4 were detained in Beni Suef, and one case in Kulobh, in Menoufiya were countless shops poultry and spare water and electricity in preparation for closure.

Damietta detained in a hospital dietary 5 citizens to suspect they are infected with avian influenza infection Fatima Abdulbaset - 43 years - housewife from the village of tooth, and Khalid Abdu cord - 31 years - the driver of Zarqa, Magda Ibrahim al -40 years - housewife from the village of Al-Hourani Martial Center, and Naglaa Izzat Nagar - 35 years - from the village or consent of the Centre Kafr Saad, Mohamed Mahmoud Najm - 13 years - student from Kfar Arabs after the injury very high temperature and congestion in the throat.

Dr Ramadan Desouki Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health said that sampling of the cases and sent to central laboratories at the Ministry of Health to ensure that sickened or not, pointing out that the cases that fall within the hospital is giving anti-viral properties for a period of 5 days.

In Qaliubiya detained Hospital Dietetic cows [Banha] Ghneim Sami Abdullah on suspicion of bird flu infection.

And completed technical committees to meet bird flu work for the second day in villages and cities governors and the governor said Justice Adli Hussein, the Committee examined 30 new farms have been taken 30 samples from chickens and sent to central laboratories indicate whether the results were negative or positive.

The governor issued instructions to the poultry stock exchange need permits extraction of cars carrying the poultry in addition to permission from the Directorate of Medicine Albbitri the effect whether the sound and other poultry infected.

The governor stressed the need to adhere to the outcome of the meeting of the Higher Committee to meet bird flu headed by Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister prevent the circulation of live poultry or farmed by hand or operating Riachat or the presence of nesting on the tops of houses and fortifications necessary Educational rural safe.

In Beni Suef hospital dietary 4 detained citizens on suspicion sickened are Marwa Isa Abdul Hameed - 8 years - and her brother Abdul Hamid - 5 years - and Islam Bakhit Adam - 14 years - from the Centre Nasser, Mahmoud Hamza Aweys - 55-year assistant police were placed under observation and taking The samples were sent to the central laboratory.

The symptoms of the disease appeared on suspects after a sharp rise in temperature and inflammation of the throat, and stressed the supreme committee to combat the epidemic on preventive measures to curb the disease, and continued to farm veterinary campaigns to immunize birds and poultry and execution of infected cases and the confiscation of cars poultry.

On the other hand, the patient has the security services who escaped from the hospital a few days ago after being detained on suspicion of injury to the hospital to receive treatment.

In Menoufiya, Mohamed lock, Director of the Chamber of Commerce, said Director General Mohamed students asked him exclusively Security number and distribution of stores that sell live poultry in all centres to maintain a prelude to closure.

Severed Investigation Supply, and Directorates of Health and veterinary medicine, electricity and police, the City Council Shebin Mound and other cities water and electricity catching.

The lock that the number of poultry shops in Shebin Mound 198 and 103 Degree and worries 98 Swimming and seven 115 and read out 87 and Martial 125 martyrs and 121 and 21 Alpajur and Sadat 13.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=89729

[GaudiaRay]

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A probable major cause, imo, for the early outbreak of flu is the extremely cold weather occurring now in the MidEast.

A few days ago, I posted it was freezing in Northern Iran, based on what a private source told me. This is a news article from today that it has snowed in Baghdad, the first time in 100 years.

Weather has an impact on human and animal infection.

First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad
An Iraqi man walks under the falling snow early in the morning in Baghdad. Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.
An Iraqi man walks under the falling snow early in the morning in Baghdad. Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.

Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.

Rare snowfalls were also recorded in the west and centre of Iraq, plunging temperatures to zero degrees Centigrade (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and even colder, an official said.

The snow in Baghdad, which melted as it hit the ground, began falling before dawn and continued until after 9 am, residents said.

"Snow has fallen in Baghdad for the first time in about a century as a result of two air flows meeting," said a statement by the meteorology department.

"The first one was cold and dry and the second one was warm and humid. They met above Iraq."

The director of the meteorology department, Dawood Shakir, told AFP that climate change was possibly to blame for the unusual event.

"It's very rare," he said. "Baghdad has never seen snow falling in living memory.

"These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold."

Snow was also reported in the mountainous Kurdish north of the country, where falls are common.

? 2008 AFP

http://www.physorg.com/news119290764.html

[Treyfish]

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EGYPT: Poultry sellers ignore live sales ban despite new bird flu cases

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Photo: Martina Fuchs/IRIN </TD></TR><TR><TD class=ImgCreditCaption style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Many Egyptians keep and raise domestic poultry, making it difficult to eradicate bird flu completely, the government says</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>CAIRO, 13 January 2008 (IRIN) - Fifteen new suspected cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus were reported last week in five governorates in Egypt as government measures to strengthen national pandemic preparedness provoked mixed reactions in Cairo's streets.

According to local media, the latest cases were detected in Qena, Al-Buheira, Al-Gharbia, Al-Minya and Al-Sohag. The patients were admitted to hospital for treatment and surveillance after suffering high temperatures and breathing problems.

In response, the government?s Supreme National Committee for Combating Bird Flu met last week to discuss the current outbreak and to implement measures to combat the spread of bird flu.

Amr Kandeel, an official in the Ministry of Health?s communicable diseases department, told IRIN that the bird flu committee is focusing on five measures to curb the spread of the virus: active surveillance; public awareness campaigns; support of public health teams in hospitals; stockpiling of flu treatment drug Tamiflu, antiviral medications and vaccination equipment; and the setting up of a telephone hotline to answer public enquiries.

In addition, Kandeel said the Ministry of Agriculture had banned the sale of live birds in Cairo?s markets. "Poultry sellers who do not abide by the protection measures will face forced closure of their shops," he said in a phone interview.

Reactions from the street
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Photo: Martina Fuchs/IRIN </TD></TR><TR><TD class=ImgCreditCaption style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Empty bird cages in a poultry shop in Cairo, following a recent government crackdown on the sale of live poultry in the capital </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
While empty bird cages in many of Cairo?s poultry shops reflect the efficiency of the government crackdown, many in the poultry business said they would ignore the ban as they felt the government was over-reacting.

One poultry seller in Old Cairo?s Khan El-Khalili market, who refused to reveal his name fearing arrest, said he would continue to sell live chicken covertly.

Nabil Khadar, another poultry seller, was critical of the government?s anti-bird flu initiatives. "I have heard about bird flu - it?s famous nowadays," he said. "But there is nothing here; this disease comes from outside [the country]. I am not scared because our chicken is good and healthy but the government wants to scare us. Chicken is the cornerstone of our economy; it?s cheap and nourishes our families."

Poultry is the main source of food and income for about five million households across Egypt. As such, a large number of people keep and raise domestic poultry, making it difficult to eradicate bird flu completely, the government says.

Two weeks ago, the bird flu committee banned domestic poultry raising altogether and oversaw the culling of all poultry infected with the bird flu virus. It also reinforced an existing ban on transporting poultry from one governorate to another without official inspection and clearance.

Business as usual
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Photo: Martina Fuchs/IRIN </TD></TR><TR><TD class=ImgCreditCaption style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">In rural areas of Egypt, it is common to see live poultry on sale</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Despite such restrictions, those in the restaurant business say it is business as usual.

"There is no danger that bird flu could hurt my business,? Ahmed Arafa, manager of the Midan Hussein branch of the Gad restaurant chain, said while watching one of his employees scrape chicken meat off a grill to make a shawarma sandwich for a customer. ?My customers are not scared. I buy my chicken from the big farms in the countryside where hygiene standards and medical controls are better."

Since the H5N1 strain of bird flu was first detected in Egypt in February 2006, the country has had the largest number of human bird flu cases outside the Asian continent. Four deaths at the turn of this year brought the number of fatalities caused by bird flu in Egypt to 19.

mf/ar/ed http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76207

[Theresa42]

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Google-translated from Arabic:

Avian influenza .. Out of control
She developed a new human cases suspected of being infected with avian influenza in Sohag, Qaliubiya and Mansoura While still safe from Alexandria virus.
Jan 13, 2008

Mansoura - hopes Trabiah:

Hospital detained Sadr polymer Fatima Hassan Ghani "homemaker" from the village of Gross Bbalkas and Saber Salah Saber "5 years" from the village kindergarten speeches on suspicion of bird flu were injured sampling of them and sent to central laboratories for analysis.

[Negatives:] D said. `Mr. Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Being that the Iraqi Sobhi Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud Sami Taha and Mr. Rizk and Mr. Abdul Latif Abdul Latif, Fawzi era and the beginnings Abdulatif Ahmed and melody Nabil Hassan Ibrahim Youssef, Zakia Ahmed Hamdi Ibrahim Abdulaziz Shimaa on .. Sadr left the hospital after making sure no infected with virus.

Sohag - Huda Hosni:

Detained Hospital Dietetic Sohag 3 new cases suspected of being infected with bird flu disease are: Sameh Ibrahim Gad, hopes Shenouda and Rehab Jamal Hamed.

Been sampling them, and the appearance of the throat to be sent to the central laboratory in Cairo to show how sickened.

For his. Abdul Ati and Health Administration agent able to salt Hospital received two cows [Banha] from the village of Kafr Attallah Centre cows [Banha] on suspicion of injured bird flu case was transferred because of their seriousness to the hospital salt [Fevers] Abbasid .. Also received hospital issued July 23 Bakhankh two Menti Shubra al-Kheima, on the suspicion that the two went 5 cases of the virus cows [Banha] after making sure no infected with virus. [5 cases negative? Not sure.]

3500 chickens died farm King Hesham Mohamed Mahmoud village of Shubra Shihab districts charitable infected after the cemetery was buried drainage.

Damietta - rare architecture:

He said. Salah Abu Atta Director Preventive Medicine Department of Health and Population DAMIETTA that the results of analyses Khalid Abdu franchise "driver" and his wife Mona Saeed basking - who were injured in the suspected avian influenza - came negative.

The 4 suspects reporting cases of avian influenza virus Damietta left the hospital.

Kafr El-Sheikh - Abdul Kader Ahawadwi:

He said. Azim Hussein, director general of veterinary Azhar Sheikh had been executed 1300 duck seized on the streets of a city car Riyadh, coming from the Western Province and the execution of 1670 seized duck status Desouk coming from the lake province.

He decided to close the 76 pregnancy poultry for lack of commitment to the conditions required were slaughtering chickens within 30 thousand farms in Desouk and Kulain after the circumvention it free of the disease.

Alexandria - Abdulaziz benign:

He said. PAUL Jibril Chairman of the Health Committee of the local People's Council Alexandria governorate did not show that so far no cases of human avian influenza in the province.

The results of analyses cases of suspected contracting the disease and the 50 were all negative.

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/third/detail03.asp

[vinny]

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Avian influenza .. Out of control







would the above be people or birds or both...........?