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    11 Egyptian governorates report bird flu cases

    11 Egyptian governorates report bird flu cases

    CAIRO, Feb 20 (KUNA) -- Egyptian Minister of Health Dr. Hatem El-Gabali said Monday that 11 governorates reported cases of bird flu, noting that 100 tested locations turned positive, 90 percent of which were in family-owned poultries.

    In a parliamentary session, El-Gabali said the governorates that reported bird flu cases were Cairo, Giza, Bani Swaif, Qena, Dulohiya, Qalyobiya, Behaira, Kafr Al-Sheikh, Almenia, Sharqeya, and Manofiya, noting that Cairo, Bani Swaif, and Manofiya reported more positive locations.

    He added that residents in these areas have been experiencing fear and panic due to the presence of thousands of dead birds on the streets and floating in water surfaces, noting that the concerned authorities received bird flu 703 reports in 23 governorates.

    The minister noted that 299 citizens came in contact with infected birds and were medically examined and turned negative, adding that results of human blood samples tested before also turned negative.

    The ministry followed necessary procedures to contain the virus, such as taking blood samples, cleaning and treating sites chemically, and killing, burning, and burrying infected birds.

    El-Gabali asserted Egypt's concern for monitoring the disease in cooperation with other countries, calling on owners of poultry businesses to report any cases of bird flu and to keep infected birds in sealed plastic bags to hand them to designated pickup cars.

    Meanwhile, Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza said that 17 billion Egyptian pounds are invested in poultry businesses and that 1.5 million workers are employed in this field, calling on the public not to panic as bird flu only infects human with weak immune system and in close contacts with the birds.

    Abaza added that international health organizations, the US, and the European Union expressed readiness for providing financial and technical support to Egypt to confront the disease.

    http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.as...en&DSNO=831416
    ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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    • #17
      Negative tests for 29 Egyptians who presented symptoms of disease

      babelfished from French:

      Aviary influenza: negative tests for 29 Egyptians who presented symptoms of disease (A.P. 21/02/2006)

      CAIRO (AP) - The examinations undergone by 29 people who presented symptoms of the aviary influenza in Egypt after having come into contact with dead birds are revealed negative, announced to Monday the Egyptian Minister for Health.

      Hatem Moustapha el-Gabaly declared at a departmental committee that no human being was carrying the aviary flu virus in Egypt, according to an official statement of the service of information of State.

      Cairo made state of the presence of the stock mortal H5N1 in the country last week.

      The departmental committee - which includes/understands the Ministers for Agriculture, of the Environment as well as persons in charge for the ministries for Information and Interior reviewed the measures intended to stop the propagation of the aviary influenza. It discussed the possibility of immunizing the breedings and a technical commission was charged to present recommendations on the subject.

      http://www.africatime.com/afrique/no...ouvelle=240752
      ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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      • #18
        Egypt orders domestic bird cull

        Egypt orders domestic bird cull

        The Egyptian government has ordered the slaughter of all poultry kept in homes, as part of efforts to stop the spread of bird flu in the country.

        A ban on the movement of poultry between governorates is in place. Measures already announced include a ban on the import of live birds.

        Cases of the of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus have been reported in at least 15 governorates.

        Officials say there have been no human cases of the disease.

        The government has called on Egyptians to stay calm, and not to dispose of slaughtered or dead birds in the roads, irrigation canals or the Nile River.

        Correspondents say the sudden arrival and spread of the disease over the past few days has caused widespread panic among Egyptians.

        Economic crisis

        The UN has reported that the economic effects of bird flu in Egypt could be devastating.

        Demand for chickens has collapsed. The poultry industry provides work for between 2.5 million and 3 million Egyptians, the UN says.

        Talib Murad Ali, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's regional officer for animal health, told the Reuters agency that countries like Egypt would be particularly hard hit economically.

        "Worldwide poultry accounts for about 20% of the animal protein consumed. But in Egypt it was 45-50% of all meat and fish and it was a third of the price of red meat. It's the only protein to which the poor have access," Mr Ali said.

        The first cases of H5N1 on the African continent were confirmed last week when the virus was found in Nigeria.

        The disease has spread west from South-East Asia. Cases have also been confirmed in Europe.

        The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed at least 90 people since early 2003, mostly in South-East Asia.

        The virus can infect humans in close contact with birds. There is still no evidence that it can be passed from human to human.

        Experts, however, fear the virus could mutate to gain this ability, and in its new form trigger a flu pandemic, potentially putting millions of human lives at risk.

        BBC News
        February 20, 2006

        http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=26294
        ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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        • #19
          "Egyptian minister of agriculture ..The crisis of the bird flu ends in next March"

          Machine translated from Arabic:

          The Egyptian minister of agriculture ..The crisis of the bird flu ends in next March
          Feb 22, 2006
          A health / Egypt / an influenza / a minister

          Cairo - 22-2 (an universe) - The Egyptian minister of agriculture Amin Abaza expected today that she ends the crisis of the bird flu disease in its countries in second half from next March with the end of the current round to the poultry breeding. :re:

          And Abaza in a speech for him in front of the Egyptian parliament said that the government decided purchase all alive farms poultry adding that this presentation will end in 25 March the next.

          And the Egyptian government discussed its exerted efforts for the blockade of the disease and the prevention of its spread while prime minister doctor Ahmed Nazif clarified that the strategy of his government in the move depends on a four axes.

          And the spokesman of the Cabinet doctor Magdi Radi of the journalists mentioned that the first axis consists by the blockade of the disease in foci its appearance and the execution of the injured birds and getting rid from the dead according to the World Health Organization protocols as for the second axis, it consists 1ith the health examination continuous in the related to the injured poultry.

          And Radi mentioned that the third axis is opening contact channels for the notification of the operation rooms in all of the governorates and a central operations room and another room by the Cabinet with a doubled are the number of the lines specified for the notification about an injury or for the inquiry.

          And he clarified that the last axis consists by the concentration on the enlightenment and the media in detail for the knowledge of the citizens of the problem with transparency beside the dealing with the economic effects to the habit.

          Mentions that (Egypt air) it informed the start of today offering the birds meals of all its trips and the foreign companies trips the working in Egypt while the national council of the human rights in Egypt appealed to the organizations of the civil society for the initiative for the aid of the victims who the economic effects that resulted from the outbreak of the epidemic within the framework of the solidarity life and the solidarity between the society categories.

          ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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          • #20
            Bird flu fears lead to panic buying of water in Egypt

            Bird flu fears lead to panic buying of water in Egypt

            Cairo, Feb. 23. (AP): Health officials on Wednesday sought to reassure the public that Cairo's drinking water supply is safe, after fears of bird flu sparked a panic of buying bottled water.

            State television and radio broadcast repeated reports on Wednesday that drinking water in Egypt's capital city was safe, after a rumour that chickens infected with bird flu had been tossed into Cairo's water reservoirs and into the Nile rapidly. The rumour spread quickly across the city on Tuesday, leading to thousands of phone calls and mobile phone text messages.

            The Health Ministry's switchboard was choked by calls from anxious citizens. Bottles of mineral water disappeared from shop shelves, and there was also heavy buying of soft drinks.

            The fears came four days after Egypt announced that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in chickens and turkeys in Giza, the twin city of Cairo, and in southern provinces. No human cases of bird flu have been diagnosed, however.

            Some schools on Wednesday posted signs to try to reassure parents that the Health Ministry had declared the water safe.

            The minister of state for Legal Affairs and Legislative Councils, Mufid Shihab, told the parliament on Tuesday that "public water is pure according to tests conducted on Wednesday."

            "The Government is telling the truth, because it cares about citizens' health," Mufid said.

            ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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            • #21
              American embassy revealed the injuries of the birds before its declaration from Cairo

              Machine translated from Arabic:

              The American embassy revealed the injuries of the birds before its declaration from Cairo
              Azzaman Newspaper --- 2338 Issue --- 22/2/2006

              Cairo - the time: The sources of the American embassy in Cairo yesterday said that Samuel naturalized Research Department president's assistant the viruses in the unit of the artistic researches by the American navy and belonging to the embassy are first who discovered the appearance of the disease in a region Al-Qalyubia in Cairo and informed of it the Egyptian officials before the government forces into the recognition of the appearance of the disease in regions a different in Cairo and Minya and he is what agrees with what the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that accused the Egyptian government confirmed with the blackout and the secrecy on the back of the disease for many weeks at least. In the panic uncle time the Egyptian cities spread result the disease in 9 governorates and became the industry of the poultry on the verge of collapse. And the sources confirmed that the virus injured birds a house in Giza Governorate, and that that took place Sunday before the last [Feb 12?]. And the moment the appearance of the positive sample the state bodies hurried in my ministry the health and the agriculture with the collection of other samples in complete secrecy from all Egypt governorates, and it proved the laboratory analyses the one that was held in the central laboratories in the Ministry of Health, and the laboratories of the supervision on the production are Al Dagni in the animal health research institute in the Ministry of Agriculture. And she proved the presence of positive samples in the governorates of Al-Qalyubia and Minya. And sending the samples took place once again in a complete secrecy also to the laboratories belonging to the present American navy (Al Namirou) in Al Abasia and who their results came a positivity. At it the World Health Organization started the recognition of the presence of the virus in Egypt and that was last Thursday [Feb 16?]. And he took place the presentation of the analyses results on the political command on the same day and held a secret meeting that confined to a limited number of ministers and the sensitive instruments commands in Egypt. And the opinion settled on the dealing with the disaster with transparency, and the declaration of the truths of the people and a situation a national plan for the resistance of the destructive virus the government and the organizations of the civil society and the citizens participates in it. And she (the time) knew also that a decision-making took place with the purchase of 600 thousand charges from a drug (Tami Flou) that limits the activity of the virus from the company the producer. And it became clear that the productive American company sells it by high prices and that the European company raised its prices after the spread of the virus in a number of countries.

              And Egypt forced into the request of 200 thousand charges only from the real estate, specially that the arrival of quantity needs a time that may reach 6 complete months.

              ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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