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Egypt - Government claims control of the 355 poultry H5N1 bird flu outbreaks since January 1 - July 5, 2015

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  • Egypt - Government claims control of the 355 poultry H5N1 bird flu outbreaks since January 1 - July 5, 2015


    Home Egyptian reports Agriculture: control of the 355 epicenter of bird flu in 25 governorates
    Sunday, July 5, 2015 - 12:25 Poultry - archival Ezz wrote Nubian

    A report issued by the Central Administration of Preventive Medicine of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture, on the hotbeds of infection with bird flu, shows the arrival of the number of outposts areas 355 for the focus of which 298 domestic breeding and 41 farm and 1 shop, and 8 markets, and 3 seizures in 25 governorates since the first of January until now and has control of all of them. The report of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, there is a big drop from infected foci bird flu governorates summer season, because the virus is active in winter, explaining that the reasons for the high number of cases of bird flu in the governorates, due to high rates random poultry in the rural sector which lacks the vital safety rules and caused the spread of the disease during the recent period. He said the Ministry of Agriculture official source in the statement for the "seventh day" The continuous body in implementing the Supreme Committee to Combat instructions of bird flu, to develop a quick response procedures to eliminate any focus infected with bird flu, it is in quarantine on the affected farm, and safe disposal of infected and dead birds, clearing and cleaning of nests infected birds and farms, and communication with the public and the owners of farms and guide them about the disease, and Investigation about the focus of the farms of 3 to 5 kilometers, in the village infected for 21 days, saying that the immunization against the disease free of birds household education, and villages around the infected focus up to 9 km, nurseries and birds.




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    Last week the government said there had been no new outbreaks in 2 weeks but the article above increased the foci count by one since then. Please see:

    Egypt - MoA: 354 H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in poultry in 2015 - none in last 2 weeks - June 30, 2015


    Apparently there is some level of an ongoing problem.

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