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  • Egypt - President of Veterinary Services says state has failed to control H5N1 bird flu - July 26, 2015

    Urgent News > Egypt News > chief of veterinary services: State failed to control bird flu (dialogue)
    Chief of Veterinary Services: State failed to control bird flu (dialogue)

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    Chief of Veterinary Services: State failed to control bird flu (dialogue)

    Detection Major General Dr. Ibrahim Mahrous, President of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, for the preparation of emergency plans to control bird flu, through a national campaign to raise awareness of controls rural education in villages, and activate the circulation of live birds in provinces embargoes, in coordination between the Ministries of Agriculture, Interior and Local Development and Health and the environment.
    He revealed guarded, in his dialogue ?Egyptian today?, that the Minister of Agriculture tabbed by rearranging the administrative structure of the body to raise the work efficiency, and change management thought, and that fit the qualifications of each assigned business leadership.
    ■ How the body facing foot and mouth disease and brucellosis?
    - We have plans to control the disease and prevent their spread through routine immunization with respect to FMD, in coordination between the Commission and the departments of Veterinary Medicine in the provinces, and with respect to disease brucellosis, he is a neighbor besieged by cattle immunization, knowing directorates of Veterinary Medicine, and the application of bio-safety rules and isolate suspected cases by making sure that they are free of the disease, with the wheels immunization until the age of 8 months, and whenever it was early immunization was more efficient in the fight against the disease.
    ■ Tracbon and how these diseases?
    - Withdrawal of random samples from the market, to find out the condition, and analysis of samples through the Central Laboratory for the control of animal production, and in the case of having the disease execute herds infected to protect public health, and compensation for educators and conduct three tests in infected farms to make sure they are free from disease before they are allowed to re- run.
    ■ What are the causes of state failure in the control of the bird flu?
    - The reasons for the lack of control over the bird flu to the weakness of awareness programs for small farmers, the farmer and the resort to indiscriminate breeding, leading to the spread of the disease and lack of control.
    ■ What is the solution?
    - Solution is to organize awareness campaigns through veterinary guidance, and coordination with the agricultural extension sector and civil society organizations, to apply the safety rules is vital in rural education, and awareness of the dangers of contact with live birds, or traded, and the preparation of controls to regulate the movement of birds between the provinces, tighten it, and the expansion in the construction of Poultry Processing, and the expansion of services after slaughter, the establishment of refrigerators to save the poultry meat to serve the massacres, and safe disposal of dead birds, and encourage educators to report suspected when in the presence of injuries.
    ■ Do you have a clear plan?
    - Aim to create a ?domestic cities? outside the Delta and the Nile Valley, and the government's plan to transfer the poultry farms of the old lands to four new areas in the east and west of Beni Suef and Minya New Valley, and activate the circulation of live birds ban law, because it is the responsibility of regulators such as local services and police, The armed forces committed to the first application of the law, through the implementation and the establishment of 8 massacres to prevent the circulation of live birds, and disclose them to ensure their safety for human consumption and not infected with diseases affecting public health.





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    The above situation indicates that there must be more human cases due to exposure to sick birds in the April-July time frame than is being publicly disclosed. The uncontrolled H5N1 outbreak in poultry has led to the largest human outbreak (since November 2014) ever recorded in the world.

    FluTrackers Egypt Human H5N1 Case List link


    Please also see:


    Egypt - Bird flu in poultry in Menoufia - July 25, 2015

    Egypt - Woman, 32, suspected H5N1 bird flu case in Damietta - tests pending - July 7, 2015

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

    Egypt - Beheira governor imposes fine for farmers who drop dead poultry and/or waste into canals and drains - June 22, 2015

    Egypt - No human H5N1 cases publicly reported for May 2015

    Egypt - Official: 70% of poultry farms are unlicensed and H5N1 bird flu continues to be endemic


    FluTrackers Egypt H5N1 Case List link

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