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According to the Egyptian Ministry of Health, there's been 52 suspected cases in the past 7 days:
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Health, there's been 52 suspected cases in the past 7 days:
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Bird Flu Kills Four Women in Egypt as Death Toll Rises to 19
By Abeer Allam
<!-- WARNING: #foreach: $wnstory.ATTS: null at /bb/data/web/templates/webmacro_en/20601202.wm:289.2 --><!-- WARNING: #foreach: $wnstory.ATTS: null at /bb/data/web/templates/webmacro_en/20601202.wm:303.19 -->Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu killed four Egyptian women in a week as cooler weather helped spread the disease in villages of the Middle East's most-populous nation, the government said.
The deadly strain of avian influenza killed a 25-year-old woman from the southern province of Beni Suef on Dec. 25 and another 25-year-old from the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya on Dec. 30, Hamdi Mahmoud, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, said. A 36-year-old woman from the northern province of Menoufia and a 50-year-old from the Mediterranean province of Damietta both died on Dec. 31, he said.
``They all denied they had poultry at home when they were first admitted to hospitals,'' Mahmoud said in a telephone interview from Cairo today. ``This is the main problem we are facing. People are afraid to say they have poultry at home and this delays treatment.''
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed 19 people in Egypt, the hardest-hit country outside Asia. As many as 5 million Egyptian households raise chickens in their backyards for food or extra income. The government banned raising poultry in rural and urban homes when the disease first broke in February 2005. The ban was later lifted on rural areas.
Most of the 43 Egyptians who have been infected with avian influenza were women or girls handling household poultry. Before last week, the previous bird flu fatality in Egypt took place in June as the hot summer abated the spread of the virus among fowl and humans, the Health Ministry said.
``We told people to stop raising poultry where they live, especially in winter, but no one is listening,'' he said.
Bird flu is known to have infected 346 people in 14 countries since 2003, killing 213 of them as of December 28, according to the World Health Organization.
To contact the reporter on this story: Abeer Allam in Cairo on aallam@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: January 2, 2008 05:58 EST
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Some are citing weather for the increase in cases:
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<TABLE id=autonumber2 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; TEXT-ALIGN: left; text-direction: ltr" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=640 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=center align=middle> Important decisions issued by the Ministerial Committee for the fight against avian influenza this evening
حظر تداول الدواجن بدون شهادة للفحص المعمليCirculation ban poultry without a certificate of inspection laboratory
آليات مبتكرة لتطعيم الطيور المنزلية بمشاركة3 وزاراتInnovative mechanisms for vaccination of domestic birds with 3 ministries <!heade></TD></TR><TR><TD>
كتب ـ محمد حسان:Mohamed Al-Hassan:
في ظل حالة القلق التي تسيطر علي عدد من المحافظات بعد التزايد الكبير في حالات الإصابة بإنفلونزا الطيور بادرت اللجنة الوزارية العليا لمكافحة المرض إلي عقد اجتماع عاجل لها مساء اليوم بوزارة الزراعة بحضور وزراء الصحة والزراعة والبيئة ومحافظي القاهرة والجيزة والقليوبية والشرقية ودمياط والمنوفية وبني سويف والغربية والدقهلية وقنا وممثلي عدد من الوزارات في مقدمتها الدفاع والداخلية والإعلام.Under the state-controlled concern to a number of provinces after the increase in the incidence of Avian initiated Higher Ministerial Committee to combat the disease to hold an emergency meeting this evening with the presence of the Ministry of Agriculture Ministers of Health and Agriculture, Environment and Governors of Cairo and Giza, and East and Damietta, Menoufiya, Beni Suef, western and Dakahlia and Qena representatives of a number of ministries in the forefront of Defense, Interior and Information.
وسوف تتخذ اللجنة خلال اجتماعها مجموعة من القرارات لمحاصرة الخطر وتشديد الاجراءات الوقائية في مقدمتها عدم السماح بنقل الطيور داخل أي محافظة أوبين المحافظات دون حصولها علي شهادة فحص معملي تفيد خلوها من الفيروس المسبب لإنفلونزا الطيور, وإلزام جميع المزارع بذلك الفحص عبر عينات وفي حالة رفض أي مزرعة لذلك يتم اغلاقها.It will take the Commission during its series of resolutions to besiege threat and tighten preventive action in the forefront of not allowing the transfer of birds within a province Eupen provinces without access to inspection certificate plants are free of the virus causing the avian influenza, and to oblige all farms across so check samples in the case rejected any farm to be so close.
كما تقرر إلزام المحليات بالترصد الوبائي للمرض في أي منطقة تحدث بها إصابة مؤكدة واعدام جميع الطيور في أي مزرعة تؤكد التحاليل وجود إصابة بها مهما كان عدد تلك الطيور.It also decided to require localities gesturing epidemic of the disease occur in any area of the injury and confirmed the execution of all birds at any farm analysis affirms the existence of the injury, irrespective of the number of these birds.
وتضع اللجنة آليات مبتكرة لتحصين الدواجن في المنازل في القري المحيطة بأي قرية تظهر بها اصابات بإنفلونزا الطيور علي أن تتم متابعة التحصين بفرق متحركة من الصحة ومعمل الرقابة البيطرية.The Committee shall develop innovative mechanisms to immunize poultry houses in the villages surrounding villages show any injuries by Avian that are up mobile immunization teams from the health and veterinary control plant.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Comment
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Skirmishes between villagers and Veterinary Dept. officers in Menoufiya.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Victim No. 19 of avian influenza from Damietta .. The arrest of the owner of a farm in Menuf
2/1/2008
Nasser Al Kashif, and Imad El-Ceyhan Khalifa, Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, Abdel soldier
The victim died No. 19 of avian influenza in Damietta yesterday evening with the first inhabitants of the village held the funeral "Heat" Menoufiya in the body Ferdous Mohamed Haddad -- was executed 85 A bird in Qena and Qaliubia.
Said Dr. Salah Aboatta, director general of preventive medicine at the Directorate of Health Damietta, he received a call from the hospital issued Abbasiyah death benefit ma'am Atwa Ibrahim Amara 52 years homemaker administrator of the land in the Homestead meat Damietta Center after being shot Avian and complications inflammation double pneumonia and respiratory failure, as her husband allegedly directed Salah Shihata Salih 55 years to a hospital Sadr to complete action recognizes the corpse for burial.
He said Jamal Abdalhviz neighbor deceased home that the victim used rearing birds home for 17 years to assist them in living and was surprised by the third day of Eid Al-Adha last news of death of birds that were infected and reared in high temperature and call the doctor who decided to transfer to the hospital where Panevloza found infected birds.
In Menoufiya held the funeral of the village residents "Heat" body of victim No. 18 and [the residents] attacked the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine for failure to poultry vaccination campaigns and even lies disaster awaited the employees go to the house of the victim directly purges and executions poultry.
The people that birds exist in each house of the village after the price of one kilo of meat to 30 pounds, and said if the government wants to protect us must provide us with meat prices are reasonable and if not done Fsnmut either flu or hunger,
They condemned the spread of pools of water and piles of garbage around the village and deprived of sanitation and all other services, and in the same vein were Section Mnov [Minuf] police arrested Mohammed Hamdi Mahmoud Salem,
His farm in Kfar Singerd, accused of not reporting to the police and veterinary disease outbreaks in ducks his farm and referred to the prosecution said Hani Abdullah free victim skirmishes that occurred between some of the villagers and the campaign of Veterinary Medicine after accusing the villagers of their negligence and lack of follow-up patrol of houses.
In Qena pointed governor Major General Magdi Ayoub to exercise supervision Investigation Supply Colonel Ahmed alias, CHIEF OF DETECTIVES Supply, two cars in the village of Thomas of the Center for lock loaded b 1000 Farrakh.
In Qalyubiyah conservative Chancellor announced yesterday Adli Hussein executed 75 A bird in the General Ahmed Darabi Shubra al-Kheima, and the closure of one of the farms in Kafr thanked penalizing owner 10 thousand pounds because of an attempt to smuggle chickens infected with Avian.
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Is any of this on the TV there yet?Comment
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Agriculture: bird flu spread in the farm more rural homes .. And 25 new infections in December
Books Mitwalli Salem 2/1/2008
A report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday, the surprise was the high numbers of cases of avian influenza disease in poultry farms are more than their counterparts in rural education, and 90% of farms Fattening and whiting business is not by the rules of safety are vital and dangerous for the health and lead to the spread of diseases epidemics faster than control procedures, which is a dangerous precedent change of plan to combat the disease.
The official report issued by the General Authority for Veterinary Services, the number of hotbeds of avian influenza disease in poultry farms during the month of December last year amounted to 25 hotbed topped the Eastern Province in the number of hotbeds of infection with 8 points and then West number 6 hotbeds Vakulaiobh rate of 3 wells injury Avian then followed Menoufiya, Dakahliya things at each one in each of the governorates of Cairo, Beni Suef, Qena and Giza.
A report, which maintains ?Egyptian today? copy of it that the total of what had been executed in poultry farms infected poultry reached almost 600 thousand and 499 flying them 550 thousand bird Eastern Province.
The number of positive cases of the disease education home during the same month to 8 cases including 3 cases of brown and two Bakulaiobh, western and one case of the Cairo governorate and the number of birds that have been destroyed education in this household governorates 1599 flying.
The report attributed the high number of cases of avian influenza disease in poultry farms to random establishment of the farms without regard any of the conditions of the vital safety, especially preventive dimension between the farmer and each other.
The report also uncovered that 90% of farms Fattening and whiting is not by any factors vital safety and adjacent to each other, or a few meters from each other and become mostly adjacent to houses, or houses built in a primitive.
The report pointed out that commercial farms mothers whiting and Fattening, which belong to large companies, does it lack many safety factors vital and much of it was originally either blank or fattening farms were changed to the production of active mothers fattening or blank business.
The report drew the General Authority for Veterinary Services to major farms and poultry farms supplied apply many of the vital safety conditions, but managed a technical professional own devices, and allows up government.
The report said that 20% of the poultry farms applicable safety regulations and requirements of animal veterinary organization to work in the poultry production, and veterinary authority, not only technical management and recommends only the application of health conditions, both dimension and preventive safety or vital in the case of a pandemic recommends closure of the farm or veterinary quarantine without that have executive powers.
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I would think yes. The statement yesterday by the Minister of Agriculture that his ministry didn't take enough action against bf in the last few months was during a television interview:Originally posted by Florida1 View Post
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Schoolteacher -- or his birds -- tested negative. The headline reads that "influenza did not kill teacher Cairo" but the negative report comes from the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, not the Ministry of Health. ??
Google-translated from Arabic:
The seizure and execution 3778 chickens in Giza, influenza did not kill teacher Cairo
2/1/2008
Security forces chased the car loaded Giza birds, and seized 3778 chickens alive in the 3 car seizures were executed by veterinary inside Cemetery healthy -- comes in the framework of the follow-up to the spread of avian influenza virus in Cairo confirmed the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine negative sample for teacher suspected in the death of his family Avian.
Major General Mohsen mandated operations assistant minister for security officers Giza Giza to control the outlets for the transfer of live birds, and prevent the unauthorized transfer to curb the spread of the disease, were seized 1000 chickens Balorac, the commander of the car he brought from Dakahlia and seized 1370 chickens loaded in trucks at six been seized 700 chickens to the seller was seized 8 chickens with the seller, and liberated the records of the facts of seizure and notify the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine.
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Signing out folks. Will be back later tonight!...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Somehow I had a feeling that this would be a negative, one way or another.Originally posted by Theresa42 View PostComment
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Do you use a crystal ball or are you naturally clairvoyant?Originally posted by niman View Post
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The teacher represents a tipping point.Originally posted by Florida1 View PostDo you use a crystal ball or are you naturally clairvoyant?Comment
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Please would you elaborate? Also I note that it says 'the death of his family avian'. Perhaps other family members died?Comment
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CommentaryOriginally posted by niman View Post
Two Suspect H5N1 Familial Clusters in Sharquia Egypt
Recombinomics Commentary 11:31
January 2, 2008
AIn 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.
The above translation describes the hospitalization of four suspect bird flu cases, representing two familial clusters in Sharquia. These suspect familial clusters are in addition to the four person cluster in Port Said and the two member cluster in Menoufia. At least two more suspect patients were hospitalized in Qualubiya, where a health care worker is also hospitalized (see satellite map).
Although Egypt has had many suspect H5N1 cases in the past, the cases usually peak in late winter / early spring. As noted above, the recent confirmed fatalities and declaration of a maximum state of emergency may have contributed to the number of hospitalized suspect cases. However, the number of H5N1 outbreaks in domestic poultry farms and backyard holdings is exploding, with 25 new outbreaks recently announced.
In addition, one of the recent suspect patients has died (43M) as has one of the suspect patients (26F), who was subsequently confirmed H5N1 positive.
Updated lab data on the hospitalized patients, and sequence data from the confirmed patients would be useful.
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