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Egypt - Confirmed H5N1 in Humans April 15, 2009 - May 18, 2009
"Lawn" (<style>BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Verdana; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Verdana; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Verdana; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Verdana; FONT-SIZE:10pt } </style><basefont face="Verdana" size="2">المرج) one of the ten neighborhoods or districts in the eastern region of Cairo.
Map with hot links at: http://www.cairo.gov.eg/C7/areas/default.aspx
Another post above cites the woman as coming from El-Marg. These reports suggest that woman lived within a couple of miles of the Cairo International Airport.
Re: Egypt - Confirmed H5N1 in Humans April 15, 2009 +
AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (74): EGYPT, 64TH CASE SUSPECTED
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A ProMED-mail post
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
[This report was scheduled for posting yesterday, 16 Apr
2009. ProMED-mail apologizes for the delay in posting and any
inconvenience this may have caused. - Mod.MPP]
Egypt woman critically ill with bird flu
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A 33-year-old woman has contracted bird flu, the 64th recorded case
since the 1st outbreak of the disease in Egypt in 2006, the health
ministry announced on Wednesday [15 Apr 2009]. The woman from the
Kafr el-Sheikh province of northern Egypt is in critical condition
and on an artificial respirator, state-run news agency MENA quoted a
health ministry official as saying. She 1st showed symptoms of flu
more than a week ago after being exposed to dead fowl thought to have
been carrying the disease, the official said.
Egypt has seen an increase in bird flu cases over the past month. The
World Health Organisation (WHO) called last month [March 2009] for an
investigation into why many of the victims have been young children.
A total of 23 people have died of bird flu in Egypt. Most of the
victims have been young girls or women, who are generally in charge
of looking after poultry in rural areas.
Egypt hosted an international conference on bird flu in October
[2008], when Washington pledged an additional 320 million dollars to
the fight against the disease amid fears it may yet escalate into a
global pandemic. The H5N1 strain of the virus that is most dangerous
to humans 1st emerged in Asia in 2003 and has since caused nearly 250
deaths, according to WHO figures. Scientists fear that a mutation of
the bird flu virus resulting in a strain easily transmitted among
humans could create a pandemic, potentially affecting up to one-fifth
of the world's population.
Egyptian woman contracts bird flu
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A 33-year-old Egyptian woman has contracted the highly pathogenic
bird flu virus, the 4th case this month [April 2009], Egyptian state
news agency MENA said Wednesday [15 Apr 2009]. MENA said the woman
came from the northern province of Kafr el-Sheikh. Her case brings to
64 the number of confirmed cases of the H5N1 avian flu virus in
Egypt, which has been hit harder by bird flu than any other country
outside Asia. Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine said the
woman had started to show symptoms on 7 Apr 2009 after coming into
contact with dead birds.
While H5N1 rarely infects people, experts say they fear it could
mutate into a form that people could easily pass to one another,
sparking a pandemic that could kill millions. Since 2003 the H5N1
avian influenza virus has infected at least 411 people in 15
countries and killed 254. It has killed or forced the culling of more
than 300 million birds in 61 countries in Asia, the Middle East,
Africa and Europe.
Some 23 Egyptians have died after contracting the virus. Most came
into contact with infected domestic birds in a country where roughly
5 million households depend on domestically raised poultry as a
significant source of food and income. The World Health Organization
has said that it was concerned some Egyptians may carry the bird flu
virus without showing symptoms, which could give it more of a chance
to mutate to a strain that spreads easily among humans.
[Byline: Will Rasmussen]
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Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall
[If confirmed this case and the 59th case (a 38-year-old woman in the
governorate of Assiut) will be the only adult cases among the 12
reported in Egypt since the beginning of 2009.
Re: Egypt - Confirmed H5N1 in Humans April 15, 2009 +
AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (75): EGYPT, 64TH CASE CONFIRMED
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A ProMED-mail post
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
Avian influenza situation in Egypt - WHO Update 11
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The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human
case of avian influenza. The patient is a 33-year-old female from
Kellin district, Kfr El Sheikh Governorate. Her symptoms began on 7
Apr 2009 and she was hospitalized at Kfr El Sheikh Fever Hospital on
15 Apr 2009 where she was started on oseltamivir the same day. She is
in a critical condition.
Infection with H5N1 avian influenza was confirmed by the Egyptian
Central Public Health Laboratory on 15 Apr 2009. Investigations into
the source of her infection indicate a history of close contact with
dead and sick poultry prior to becoming ill.
Of the 64 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 23 have been fatal.
[This the WHO official confirmation of the 64th case of avian H5N1
influenza reported previously as a suspected case in ProMED-mail
posted 16 Apr 2009 as "Avian influenza, human (74): Egypt 64th case
susp. 20090417.1463" (due to technical difficulties, this posting on
the suspected case was not posted until today, 17 Apr 2009 - Mod.MPP)
[see also:
Avian influenza, human (74): Egypt, 64th case susp. to be archived
Avian influenza, human (73): Egypt, virulence 20090413.1411
Avian influenza, human (72): Egypt, virulence 20090412.1403
Avian influenza, human (71): Egypt, Viet Nam, WHO 20090408.1359
Avian influenza, human (70): Egypt (QL), 63rd case 20090406.1336
Avian influenza, human (69): Egypt (BH) 62nd case 20090404.1299
Avian influenza, human (66): Egypt (BH) 20090402.1271]
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Case's husband ?64? with the bird flu virus to transfer calls ?Abbasiyah? .. And the detention of a mother and her daughter on suspicion of SARS in the Western
Magdi Oboualainin, just dug 4-19-2009
Abutaleb student Ahmed Ismail, the husband of the No. 64 Saadia Ahmed Abdul Latif Hamid ?33 years?, declared that the Ministry of Health on the positive for bird flu, fevers transported from the hospital, Kafr El-Sheikh admitted to hospital in Abbasiyah, the lack of adequate hospital care, Kafr El-Sheikh - as he put it .
And demanded the intervention of the Minister of Health to achieve their desire for this requirement, to ensure more attention to his wife, and said that there was a dearth of oxygen cylinders in the hospital, because the measuring cylinder 13 only, and is used from 6 to 8 cylinders per day, and added: ?the cylinder was over, the day before yesterday , and I had to rent a pickup truck on my account and go to the General Hospital of Kafr el-Sheikh for the replacement of the oxygen cylinder ?.
He added that the wife had been improved and reached 46% oxygen and blood, but it dropped again to 35% due to lack of oxygen, to the detriment of their health, expressing concern about the lack of resources in the hospital, and non-operation of a blood gas testing, although so far brought Only four days ago.
And demanded the intervention of the Minister of Health for the lack of specialist care hospital fevers Kafr el-Sheikh, and blood testing device is disabled and was unable to technical operation, and that the patient is threatened with death for lack of hospital care.
In the West, the hospital admitted Tanta detained yesterday on suspicion of two new bird flu virus.
"Dr. Mahmoud Sheriff, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health, the government, the case of a woman, aged? 23 years ?and called Bushra Ahmed Moussa, Mohamed Salma Ngeltha? a year and a half ?, after the sense of shortness of breath, a flushed face and a very high temperature,
Have been detained in the place for such cases in the hospital, blood samples were taken and their melancholy hours, and sent to labs central Ministry of Health to show how they got sick or not.
زوج الحالة رقم ?٦٤? المصابة بأنفلونزا الطيور يطالب بنقلها إلى ?العباسية?.. واحتجاز أم وابنتها للاشتباه فى إصابتهما فى الغربية
كتب مجدى أبوالعينين وعادل ضرة ١٩/ ٤/ ٢٠٠٩
طالب أحمد إسماعيل أبوطالب، زوج الحالة رقم ٦٤ سعدية أحمد عبداللطيف حامد ?٣٣ سنة?، التى أعلنت وزارة الصحة عن إصابتها بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور، بنقلها من مستشفى حميات كفر الشيخ إلى مستشفى حميات العباسية، لعدم وجود الرعاية الكافية بمستشفى كفر الشيخ - على حد قوله.
وطالب بتدخل وزير الصحة لتحقيق رغبته فى هذا المطلب، لضمان عناية أكثر بزوجته، وقال إن هناك نقصاً شديداً فى أسطوانات الأكسجين بالمستشفى، لأن قوته ١٣ أسطوانة فقط، ويتم استخدام من ٦ إلى ٨ أسطوانات يومياً، وأضاف: ?كانت الأسطوانات قد انتهت، أمس الأول، واضطررت لتأجير عربة نصف نقل على حسابى الخاص والتوجه إلى مستشفى كفر الشيخ العام لتبديل أسطوانة أكسجين?.
وأضاف أن حالة زوجته كانت قد تحسنت ووصلت نسبة الأكسجين بالدم ٤٦٪، إلا أنها انخفضت مرة أخرى إلى ٣٥٪ بسبب نقص الأكسجين، مما يضر بصحتها، معرباً عن قلقه من نقص الإمكانات فى المستشفى، وعدم تشغيل جهاز فحص نسبة غازات الدم حتى الآن رغم إحضاره منذ أربعة أيام فقط.
وطالب بتدخل وزير الصحة لعدم وجود إخصائى عناية مركزة بمستشفى حميات كفر الشيخ، وأن جهاز فحص الدم معطل والفنى لم يستطع تشغيله، وأن المريضة مهددة بالوفاة لعدم وجود الرعاية بالمستشفى.
وفى الغربية، احتجز مستشفى حميات طنطا، أمس، حالتين جديدتين للاشتباه فى إصابتهما بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور.
وقال الدكتور شريف حمودة، وكيل وزارة الصحة بالمحافظة، إن الحالتين لسيدة تبلغ من العمر ?٢٣ عاماً? وتدعى بشرى أحمد موسى، ونجلتها سلمى محمد ?عام ونصف العام?، بعد شعورهما بضيق فى التنفس وإحمرار الوجه وارتفاع شديد فى درجة الحرارة،
وتم احتجازهما داخل المكان المخصص لمثل هذه الحالات فى المستشفى، وتم أخذ عينات دم ومسحة حلق منهما، وإرسالها للمعامل المركزية بوزارة الصحة لبيان مدى إصابتهما بالمرض من عدمها.
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