Egypt - 150 people test negative for malaria after man, 62, is confirmed positive by Beni Seuf health dept. - denied by national health officials

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machine translation -

Al-Ahram gate" at the home of malaria patients in Beni Suef
Beni Suef - Emad Abou-Zeid

26-7-2011

Said Medhat Ibrahim, Hesham Taha, the son of a patient who suffers from "malaria" in the village of Taha Bisha Beni Suef that his father was wounded by a rise in the temperature exceeded 40 degrees and we have given the doctors Beni Suef, and then we went by Cairo was booked Hospital, Ahmed Maher Teaching.
The son of the patient's " Gate-Ahram "that the doctor requested tests, has shown the analysis results to my parents who have malaria, and immediately the hospital, Ahmed Maher Bahaltna to a hospital diets Beni Suef for treatment and isolation, and all the analysis and reports found the hospital to prove it.
He pointed out that the state of his father's stable now slight drop in temperatures and the Directorate of Health Beni Suef had yesterday and today disinfected the house and neighboring houses, as well as taking samples from all family members and a large number of villagers on suspicion.
As explained village residents that the health unit in the village, which gathered more than 10 villages next to us does not works and not by the unit malaria, and we suffer from the armies of mosquitoes, which attack us every night, along canals and drains, which is filled in with garbage and dirt.
In a related development, Dr. Maher Damati for "gate-Ahram" that the patient was treated in a hospital, Ahmed Maher Teaching in Cairo, and was referred to the Fever Hospital Beni Suef, but there was a doctors young children may accelerate in the diagnosis of the situation.
The governor added that the Directorate of Health has to take samples from 150 individuals, all negative, as well as they did a survey of insects deployed in the area being analyzed.
the source of the medical directorate of health structures Soueif has confirmed yesterday the emergence of a case of "malaria" in a village center Baba Beni Suef were stone case, a hospital dietary Beni Suef after the tests necessary and to send samples to labs central Cairo.
The source added that he had been taking samples from more than 150 people between the child, youth and elderly native of the village, "Taha Bisha" Baba Center, which emerged in which case, after the emergence of symptoms of the disease, "Hashim Ibrahim Taha (62 years)" retired and moved to a hospital diets town of Beni Suef.

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Re: Egypt - 150 people test negative for malaria after man, 62, is confirmed positive in Beni Seuf governorate

I am adding the word "unconfirmed" to the title of this thread. If the report is accurate, and this is not an imported case, it could have serious consequences.

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Archive Number 20110728.2269
Published Date 28-JUL-2011
Subject PRO/EDR> Malaria - Egypt: (BN) unconfirmed

MALARIA - EGYPT (BANI SUWAYF), UNCONFIRMED
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Date: Wed 27 Jul 2011
Source: Al Masry Al Youm [edited]
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The Beni Suef health department has declared a state of emergency
after claiming to have discovered the governorate's 1st case of
malaria. However, Egypt's Health ministry has denied the reports,
stressing that the country is free of the disease and that it would
have announced any cases that had been discovered.

Assistant Health Minister Nasr al-Sayyid denied the supposed discovery
of malaria in Beni Suef or any other governorates.

Magdy Hazin, head of preventive medicine at the Beni Suef health
department, said that a 62-year-old from Beba has been hospitalized at
the Fever Hospital in Beni Suef after testing positive for malaria.
Hazin said the patient has started to respond to medication and that
samples have been taken from more than 200 of the patient's relatives
and sent to Cairo for analysis.

Hazin attributed the infection to the presence of mosquitoes and
garbage in the area. But he ruled out drinking water as a reason for
the man's illness, citing samples taken from the water station near
Beba.

Agents from the health department sprayed the village's entrances and
exits with pesticides to prevent the infection from spreading to
neighboring villages.

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[Since 1998, no indigenous malaria cases were registered by the
Malaria Control Programme throughout the whole country. Without a
reservoir, it is difficult to explain a single case except as imported
or transmitted from an imported case.

Malaria diagnosis relies on microscopy of thick blood films, and it is
not clear whether the present case has been confirmed or not. Many
infections can easily be confused with malaria.

Malaria in Egypt, background information from the WHO
<http://www.emro.who.int/rbm/CountryProfiles-egy.htm>:

The malaria caseload was reduced from about 85 000 cases in 1960 to
5400 cases in 1970, with a preponderance of _P. vivax_ cases. In 1989
and in 1994-95, 2 outbreaks of malaria (198 and 808 cases,
respectively) occurred, caused almost exclusively by _P. falciparum_
in Fayoum governorate.

After application of intensive control measures, only 4 indigenous
cases (all _P. falciparum_) were reported in 1997. A formal report
from MOH indicates that only 23 cases occurred in 2005, and all were
imported from Sierra Leone and Sudan.

In the past, local vectors assured a moderate level of endemicity of
malaria all over the Nile Valley, Delta and oases. But Egypt also knew
catastrophic epidemics due to the importation of _A. arabiensis_ from
Sudan (the epidemic in Upper Egypt in 1942-1943 that resulted in up to
180 000 deaths).

One of the main concerns of the National Malaria Control Programme is
to prevent the proliferation of _Anopheles arabiensis_ mosquitoes from
Sudan into the Egyptian territory along the shores of Lake Nasser,
which was formed as a result of the completion of the Aswan High Dam
in 1970.

For the HealthMap location of this event, see:
<http://healthmap.org/r/15gV>. - Mod.EP]