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Re: EGYPT - Dec 4, 2007+
Four (4) new sus cases in Sharkia:
Samia el-Sayed Awad (55F)
Menah Mohamed Fathi (3F) - granddaughter of Samia
Iman Sobhi (25F)
Mohamed Maher Reda - Iman's son
Bird Flue Kills another Victim; Maximum State of Emergency Declared
By Tarek Amin, Jehan Khalifa, Nasser el-Kashif and Mesbah el-Hagar 2/1/2008
The 19th bird flu victim since the virus hit Egypt was declared dead at the Abassiya Chest Hospital in Cairo on Monday as a funeral procession was being held in the village of Hait in Menoufia for Fardos Mohamed Haddad who had also died from bird flu.
Fifty-two year old Hanim Atwa Ibrahim from Ezbet el-Lahm in Damietta died of complications from multiple pneumonia and respiratory failure, Director General of Preventive Medicine in Damietta Salah Abou Atta told al-Masry al-Youm.
In Sharkia in the eastern Nile Delta, health officials quarantined four citizens for suspected symptoms of bird flu in Sharkia Contagious Disease Hospital.
They were identified as 3-year-old Menah Mohamed Fathi, her grandmother, 55-year-old Samia el-Sayed Awad, and 25-year-old Iman Sobhi and her son, Mohamed Maher Reda.
This came as the health and population ministry declared a maximum state of emergency following the death of three new victims in less than 30 hours.
Sources at the ministry told al-Masry al-Youm 27 epidemic surveillance teams were activated and that immediate intervention teams were stationed across the country.
Health officials were also closely following up on quarantined cases and anti-contagious efforts, ensuring that sufficient stockpiles of the anti-viral Tam flu are available, and setting up two laboratories in Alexandria and Menya to service both Upper and Lower Egypt by conducting tests specific to the bird flu virus.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), meanwhile, praised what it described as improvement in the efforts to combat the H5N1 virus, which causes the disease around the world, but cautioned that the situation remains critical in Egypt and Indonesia, where the risk of the mutation of virus to a strain that could be transmitted among humans remains high.
A report issued by the ministry of agriculture revealed that outbreaks of the virus are more prevalent among birds in poultry farms rather than birds bread domestically. The report, complied by the Public Authority for Veterinary Services, said 25 new outbreaks were detected in Sharkia, Gharbia, Qalyubia, Menoufia, Dakahlia, Cairo, Qena, Beni Suef and Giza.
The report concluded that 90% of the poultry farms fell behind considerably in a number of biological safety benchmarks, which threatens to make it easier for the disease to spread.
Four (4) new sus cases in Sharkia:
Samia el-Sayed Awad (55F)
Menah Mohamed Fathi (3F) - granddaughter of Samia
Iman Sobhi (25F)
Mohamed Maher Reda - Iman's son
Bird Flue Kills another Victim; Maximum State of Emergency Declared
By Tarek Amin, Jehan Khalifa, Nasser el-Kashif and Mesbah el-Hagar 2/1/2008
The 19th bird flu victim since the virus hit Egypt was declared dead at the Abassiya Chest Hospital in Cairo on Monday as a funeral procession was being held in the village of Hait in Menoufia for Fardos Mohamed Haddad who had also died from bird flu.
Fifty-two year old Hanim Atwa Ibrahim from Ezbet el-Lahm in Damietta died of complications from multiple pneumonia and respiratory failure, Director General of Preventive Medicine in Damietta Salah Abou Atta told al-Masry al-Youm.
In Sharkia in the eastern Nile Delta, health officials quarantined four citizens for suspected symptoms of bird flu in Sharkia Contagious Disease Hospital.
They were identified as 3-year-old Menah Mohamed Fathi, her grandmother, 55-year-old Samia el-Sayed Awad, and 25-year-old Iman Sobhi and her son, Mohamed Maher Reda.
This came as the health and population ministry declared a maximum state of emergency following the death of three new victims in less than 30 hours.
Sources at the ministry told al-Masry al-Youm 27 epidemic surveillance teams were activated and that immediate intervention teams were stationed across the country.
Health officials were also closely following up on quarantined cases and anti-contagious efforts, ensuring that sufficient stockpiles of the anti-viral Tam flu are available, and setting up two laboratories in Alexandria and Menya to service both Upper and Lower Egypt by conducting tests specific to the bird flu virus.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), meanwhile, praised what it described as improvement in the efforts to combat the H5N1 virus, which causes the disease around the world, but cautioned that the situation remains critical in Egypt and Indonesia, where the risk of the mutation of virus to a strain that could be transmitted among humans remains high.
A report issued by the ministry of agriculture revealed that outbreaks of the virus are more prevalent among birds in poultry farms rather than birds bread domestically. The report, complied by the Public Authority for Veterinary Services, said 25 new outbreaks were detected in Sharkia, Gharbia, Qalyubia, Menoufia, Dakahlia, Cairo, Qena, Beni Suef and Giza.
The report concluded that 90% of the poultry farms fell behind considerably in a number of biological safety benchmarks, which threatens to make it easier for the disease to spread.
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