Algeria - Media report regarding a suspect bird flu H5N1 death in Tebessa - MoH: seasonal flu (pandemic H1N1/09)

[Gert van der Hoek]

It seems several patients with flucomplications were in hospital, 4 died, 1 of them tested positive for H5N1?


Analyzes reveal that the last of the four deceased Constantine been infected with "H 5 N 1"

09:00-December 18, 2015

An informed source for "news" revealed yesterday evening that the results of laboratory analysis of the blood sample called "SR" (40 years), the last of the deceased to the institution hospital Constantine about it by the Sharia Mohammed Alhbuque Hospital in Tebessa, that on an infected bird flu , the fourth victim decimated by symptoms of severe pneumonia Municipal law in Tebessa. Our source said that the three cases of those who died successively after Constantine converted to a hospital, they showed the same symptoms, the total Calfhl in the joints and severe cough and shortness of breath.

The initial hypotheses suggest that it seasonal influenza acute symptoms, but the result is peremptory for the last of the deceased and received from a specialist at the Institute Pasteur detective to Constantine Hospital, dispelled all doubts, indicators revealed as the case of bird flu. He recommended medical staff University Hospital of Constantine re medical analysis of blood samples from three dead others, to ensure that the results are the same that appeared on the fourth case. According to information from the law and Tebessa, Constantine to the arrival of three other new cases turn to Constantine hospital and placed under intensive medical care, and they are not necessarily transferred from hospitals Tebessa, but may be cases emerged out Symptoms Vatjht directly to Constantine Hospital, while according to other information that the security authorities and the Task preventive health be raided before yesterday altar unauthorized died its poultry previously, without resort owner to permit forced out, moving the administrative inquiry machine again, and by order of the Minister in charge, to determine responsibilities and linking initial indications how the premise of the deceased victims of the poultry meat diseased consumption.

For his part, said Health Director for a term of Tebessa Dr. Manji Msturi, in connection with the "news", that was all the actions taken and quickly convert suspected cases, explaining that in addition to the cases of the four deceased, There are 4 other cases, Constantine and Annaba under intensive medical supervision, while holding that the order only with acute pneumonia normal respect, stressing that it is not available on any other information about what was hyped on the results of tests which have reached Constantine Hospital.

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Tebessa: 4 deaths from a strange epidemic

on 18.12.15 | 10:00 Talk

Four people from different localities of Cheria District, 50 km from Tebessa, have died in the last 48 hours following a previously unknown epidemic.

The health director of the province, contacted by telephone yesterday, said it is a simple seasonal flu, which was complicated by causing acute bacterial pneumonia. An opinion contradicted by a medical specialist in prevention.

He was contacted about it and lets us know that seasonal flu kills a weakened person with any medical condition , adding that two of the victims were young and healthy. The four victims, SA, KH, EM and SS, had developed the same symptoms, namely high fever, cough, muscle pain and headaches and sore throat.

They were initially admitted to the emergency room of the hospital Cheria before being evacuated to the university hospital of Constantine, where they died. Two other people with the same symptoms, KE, a septuagenarian, and SH, a teenager, were admitted to University Hospital. They are found in very serious condition. A crisis unit has been installed at the public health department to monitor the evolution of this epidemic, we learned from a source from the same direction.

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Friday, December 18, 2015 4:02 p.m.

Seasonal Flu: Death of a person as a result of seasonal influenza in Tebessa hospital

ALGIERS Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, Abdelmalek Boudiaf, said Thursday here that among the four cases of deaths in Tebessa hospital, "one was due to complications of seasonal flu. "

"Of the 11 people with seasonal flu and admitted to hospital Tebessa, 4 died," said the minister on the sidelines of an inspection visit to nearby clinics in Algiers.

"The analysis submitted to the Institut Pasteur confirmed the death of one person from complications related to seasonal flu. For the other cases, the analyzes will clarify, once the results are known, the root causes of the death of the three other people, "added the Minister.

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Thursday, December 17, 2015 6:48 p.m.

Boudiaf ensure that no coronavirus infection has been recorded in Algeria

ALGIERS - Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, Abdelmalek Boudiaf said Thursday in Algiers that no cases of coronavirus infection has been recorded throughout the country.

In a statement to the press on the sidelines of a plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) devoted to oral questions, Mr Boudiaf said that "no cases of coronavirus infection has been recorded throughout the entire national territory", adding that "the information stating cases of coronavirus infection in the wilaya of Tebessa is simple rumors "

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[Gert van der Hoek]

December 18, 2015

Family of the infected has to bring medicine from France

Family, "Khaled" was forced from the Municipality of Sharia, southwest of Tebessa, to resort to the French capital Paris to bring the two packets of medicine Tammivlo 75 amounting to 90.86 euros, and this after losing his final hospital Algeria sheet or pharmacies, especially after his request medical staff University Hospital Ibn Badis in Constantine, in the case of her son, Khalid Hadi, who turned from Mohammed Alhbuque Hospital Sharia, among 8 cases died, 4 of them to some extent time.

A family member said the "news" that the drug is finally Ptbsh, and even the quantity stored exceeded the expiration date "and were looking for him in all the states Algeria to enter philanthropist Algerian nationality from Paris and sent yesterday to Constantine airport, "where delivered Alalaptan the medical staff, who confirmed that the situation related to bird flu," H 5 to 1 ", and that they were prevented from seeing their son Hadi, aged 27 years, which is about the Sharia to Tebessa then Constantine, now lying on the sickbed in the case of artificial respiration. And she raised the family, accompanied by people living with other numerous inquires about the media blackout about the nature of the disease, which should permit him to take caution and zero tolerance

[Gert van der Hoek]

12/18/2015

"Flu" kills five people in Tebessa and analysis did not convince the population


Reached the day before yesterday, the number of deaths suspected to be due to
normal seasonal influenza, five cases, between the ages of twenty-seventh and seventy-fourth, was recorded all in Muhammad Alhbuque Hospital, in the law away from the headquarters of the state capital Tebessa 45 km, in addition to Three cases are still bedridden in hospitals owners Constantine and Tebessa.Four cases of the five deaths, died after arrival at the Ibn Badis Constantine hospital and died the fifth hospital Tebessa.
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This coincided, according to hospital director Mohammed Bouchmokhh, with sending samples for analysis at the Pasteur Institute in the capital, where the results confirmed, that it comes to seasonal normal flu,....

.....while taking the high incidence of deaths popular trend another, where the refusal of many of the families of the victims and the people of the law considered disease killer regular flu and rejected out of hand reports of the Pasteur Institute,......

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After the death of a fifth person caused by an unknown virus
T?bessa on high alert

the 12/19/15 | 10:00

Pending the results of the analyzes, a ministerial committee was to be dispatched today to the DSP.

While six others are currently under medical supervision, including three deemed in grave condition, at the University Hospital of Constantine, Annaba and Bouguerra Boulares hospital of Bekkaria, wilaya of T?bessa, a 5th person with the same symptoms, high fever, cough, body aches and a sore throat, died on the night of Thursday to Friday. It is M.H., about forty, admitted to hospital Allia Salah of Tebessa, about fifteen days ago. This death caused panic in the city of Cheria.

Yesterday, this city of over 70,000 inhabitants resembled a ghost town. Virtually all the streets were deserted. Last Thursday, the majority of parents prevented their children from going to school, other inhabitants preferred to keep them at home, and this, since last Tuesday for fear of catching the virus previously unknown. A high alert was given in hospitals across the wilaya of Tebessa. Doctors, paramedics and other health professionals were forced to wear gloves and bibs.

The admission of a Sub-Saharan at Khaldi Azzouz hospital of Tebessa to give birth sowed real panic in the maternity service.

Sent to the Pasteur Institute, the results of analyzes of samples taken from Rabouh Samir, aged 41, admitted at hospital of Cheria and deceased, came before yesterday at the direction of health and population. They would have revealed that it would be the H1N1 flu, a contagious respiratory disease that causes symptoms similar to those of seasonal flu.

This same name, it must be remembered, was used by the World Health Organization, WHO, to designate a "swine flu" or "bird". Thing categorically denied by the Director of Health and Population, Moundji Mastouri, who confirmed previously that the people have died from a simple seasonal flu badly treated that complicated, causing an acute viral pneumonia .

Meanwhile, waiting for the Minister of Health and Population, Abdelmalek Boudiaf, to announce in the coming hours the results of analyzes of samples taken from the three people who died before, a ministerial committee was to be dispatched today at the management of health and population. A cell has been installed, to follow the evolution of this deadly disease. Fearing that the epidemic of unknown origin spreads, over 150 sub-Saharans were grouped in a boarding school in B?kkaria.

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Cases of deaths in Tebessa: The analyzes revealed the presence of a "seasonal flu" virus (Ministry)

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Analyses by the Pasteur Institute of Algeria following the deaths that occurred recently in Tebessa, have revealed the presence of a virus "seasonal influenza", said Tuesday the Ministry of Health, Population and hospital reform.

"The analyzes conducted on the samples sent to the Pasteur Institute of Algeria, National Reference Center for influenza, showed the presence of a seasonal influenza virus. In this context, all severe cases reported, including deaths, are cases of seasonal influenza, "the ministry said in a statement.

Following the outbreak of severe forms of seasonal flu in T?bessa, the ministry states that "healthcare staff has implemented the management system of complicated flu cases provided for this purpose, since the beginning of November 2015 ".

It was so proceeded in "immediate hospitalization cases in question and their treatment in intensive care unit," added the ministry, while recalling that the seasonal flu vaccination campaign is "still in force until the end of the winter season. "

It concerns especially those aged over 65, adults chronically ill and children as well as pregnant women, said the statement, ensuring that the vaccine "is available in the public health facilities where it is administered for free as well in private pharmacies which is refundable by the social security for the insured. "

The Ministry calls, in this regard, health professionals and the media to "relay information based on scientific data and to avoid making speculations without foundations nor scientific proofs ".

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Apparently Arabian Press and/or Google translations of Arabian often mention bird flu, when novel H1N1 pandemic flu would be more accurate. The situation in Tebessa seems another example of this. I read "H1N1" in the copy of the death certificate below.

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A medical certificate to prove that one of the deceased in Tebessa flu has been infected with bird flu


12/25/2015




It proved a medical certificate, that a deceased flu in Tebessa, has been infected with bird flu, and according to the certificate issued by the University Hospital Hakim Ben Badis in Constantine, one of the deceased was infected with bird flu, and the reference number of Ochkaassadd deaths suspected to be due to influenza regular Ptbsh seasonal, five cases, between the ages of twenty-seventh and seventy-fourth, was recorded all in Muhammad Alhbuque Hospital, in the law away from the headquarters of the state capital Tebessa 45 km, in addition to the three cases still bedridden owners in hospitals Constantine and Tebessa.

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Flu epidemic: Death of a sixth person in Tebessa

12/25/15 | 10:00

Khaled Haddi, aged 37 and father of three children, admitted to the university hospital of Constantine, about ten days ago, because of a nasty flu, died yesterday.

With symptoms of influenza: high fever, cough, body aches and a sore throat, this person around forty from the town of Cheria, located 50 km from Tebessa, was transferred from the hospital Mohamed Chbouki CHU of Constantine, after his health had totally deteriorated. So far, eleven people suffering from this strange disease were admitted to the University Hospital of Constantine, of Annaba and Tebessa B?kkaria hospital. Six of them died.

Previously, the Director of Health and Population of Tebessa, Moundji Mastouri, said that this is a simple seasonal flu, which complicated, causing an acute viral pneumonia. For its part, the Ministry of Health had sent last Wednesday, a statement to APS, adding that the results of analyzes of samples taken on five people dead reveal that these deaths are due to a seasonal influenza virus.

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