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  • Egypt: January decline in human bird flu cases

    Source: http://www.spa.gov.sa/popdetails.php?id=627905&catid=3

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    Cairo, 23 Muharram 1430 AH January 20, 2009 WAS

    The rate of decline in the bird flu disease which is transmitted from birds to humans in Egypt, it has not seen a great month of January, only the registration of human cases and only one, while in 63 cases last year.

    The Minister of Local Development, Mohamed Abdel-Salam Mahgoub by a meeting of the Egyptian Higher Committee to combat bird flu, the rate of infection of bird flu decline compared to last year was recorded in January, only one case while in the same month, 63 cases in 2007.

    The meeting dealt with the follow-up to the Egyptian plan to combat the disease and preventive measures necessary for the monthly monitoring of suspected cases of human bird flu and hot at the local and global continuation of the work of operating rooms on the ministries and governorates to receive any complaints from citizens about any suspicion of any injury.

    He said the governor had been vaccinated more than 1 .1 billion birds in the farm and about 220 million birds rural education through a number of national immunization campaigns against the disease during the past two years, adding to the near completion of human infection cure the disease, No. 52, which was hit by a girl, aged 21 months.

    He stressed that the official number of human cases of bird flu in Egypt has reached 52 cases were satisfactory cure 28 cases and the deaths of 23 other a single case under treatment is expected to exit over the next 48 hours.
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