EGYPT - Jan 2 - Jan 4, 2008

[Gert van der Hoek]

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From Website Dep of Health

More people admitted to hospitals over bird flu

More people have been admitted to hospital over bird flu-like hospitals.

The government Damitta has taken the brunt of suspected cases. Police continue their crackdowns on back-yard poultry and violating shops.

In Alexandria, police raided 16 poultry shops and accused workers of violating anti-bird flu measures.

A government ad hoc committee on bird flu has slapped a six-month closure on infected farms nationwide.

Reference of the virus in such farms would mean a permanent closure.

Agriculture Minister Aamin Abaza said the back-yard poultry are the main culprit behind the reemergence of the deadly H5N1 virus.

The minister said the government takes the matter extra seriously.

He said the anti-bird flu campaigns are highly focused on the transference of birds from one governorate to another.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Dr Hatem el-Gabaly warned of any complacency in fighting bird flu.

He said the ministry has a stockpile of the tamiflu vaccine amounting to 2.5 million.

The minister put at 46 the number of Egyptians, who had contracted thieveries since it first emerged in Egypt in February of 2006.

Nineteen people have died of bird flu, including two children, the minister added.

More infected birds have been culled over the past few days. In Al-Dakhliya, some 1,300 birds have been culled.

In the southern city of Sohag, up to five million birds have been vaccinated against the virus.


4/1/2008

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu01021291.htm

[Theresa42]

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Some negatives reported here. And maybe a couple of new sus cases (a lot of them sound familiar).

Google-translated from Arabic:

Continuation of preventive measures against bird flu in the provinces
Jan 4, 2008

To reduce the risk of avian influenza was decided to increase the number of ambushes on the entrances and exits provincial committees and increased traffic shops and introduced birds with the security services, where it met the supreme committee for avian influenza headed assistant interior minister for security Sohag and decides to start the third national campaign to combat the bird flu as of Saturday January 12 current immunization hatcheries Omar day review immunization, which took place in the second phase of the national campaign to combat the disease in the middle of last month, said Chairman of the Chamber of Control Directorate of Veterinary Medicine had been vaccinated 5 million bird flu influenza vaccine.

On the other hand, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Ismailia that the analyses conducted central labs of the Ministry of Health for both me Mr. Muhammad (25 years old) of Ezbet pond and peaceful Mohammed Hussein (45 years old) of Abu Sawyer proved free of Avian influenza illness.

On the other hand, detained Hospital Dietetic Qena in the 3 / 1 / 2008 girl called Jasmine Khaled Adli (half a year) and homemaker claims Q. Mustafa Hussein 24 years on suspicion of injured bird flu. Aientema were sent to labs Central Cairo and the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine clearing houses and vaccinated birds region

In the province of Suez stressed Major General Jalal Uddin governor Suez members of the Executive Board of Suez governorate instructions on the need to adhere to the Supreme Committee for bird flu prevention shops selling live birds or circulation biomass residential neighborhood except Ganain rural sector and not to enter any of the entrances of birds through the Suez and Cairo-Ismailia only after the veterinary supervision, validation, as well as clearing birds at the slaughterhouse before they slaughter.

In the province of the lake [Beheira] has been booking 5 people who maintain the lake including two children inside the hospital dietary Bdinmhor and Alexandria and Kafr El-Sheikh on suspicion of illness bird flu first case of the child Reza Ibrahim Ibrahim, who is 10 years Bhmyat Damanhour where developed symptoms of the disease and because of acquired Bird by his mother, the education top of the roof of her home La limits weakness Hamada was turned into salt Damanhour reiterates the onset of symptoms to another woman and her daughter, 6 months and Alltain adjoining village Smjarat Barahmanih was transferred to the virus in the village of Kafr Sheikh Abu poultry Matamir been converted from two others Blue Dawar village branch to the pathogenesis of Alexandria on suspicion of injured bird flu.

In Tanta According to the results of tests conducted central labs of the Ministry of Health in Cairo negative 6 cases of avian influenza who were detained Hospital dietary and free of the disease after having been detained for several days in an area dedicated to deal with suspected cases and give them doses of the drug Altamflo. On the other hand, the preservation of Veterinary Medicine to obtain a sample of dead birds Residence status two houses and sent to the veterinary laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture in Cairo for analysis to confirm Uday injury this dead birds contracted avian influenza.

In the province of East [Sharkia] revealed the results of the analysis conducted for the child Hisham Salah Tawfik 4 years from the village of Abu Hammad Alhanis Center for Disease integrity of bird flu has left the hospital dietary after the child got.

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/ahtml/art83.htm

[Mike32]

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An Egyptian blog is claiming there was an interview with the head of Cairo University's veterinary school in the January 2 2008 edition of an Egyptian newspaper called the Daily El-Dostor. The blog claims:

Professor and doctor Ahmed El-Sanousy, the head of the viruses section at the faculty of Veterinary, Cairo University told the newspaper that in the last three months in 2007 the virus began to evolve and form a resistance against the vacancies like Tamflu, and this what the Namru discovered lately, it did not reach the complete evolution process which moves it from the birds to humans phase to the humans to humans

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Jan 2, 2008+

An Egyptian blog is claiming there was an interview with the head of Cairo University's veterinary school in the January 2 2008 edition of an Egyptian newspaper called the Daily El-Dostor.

Thanks, Mike!

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Jan 2, 2008+

New Egypt thread here:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47706

Please post new news, etc., there. (I'll leave this thread open for now, though, 'cause I don't want to cut off the Tamiflu-resistance discussion.)