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She said on the sidelines of a seminar to present the results of the first phase of the Egyptian community outreach programme illness bird flu yesterday, which is implemented by the UNICEF in Cairo that there are 7 million families raise poultry in Egypt, whether in the countryside or the cities of about 49 million people, pointing out that 90% of those infected with bird flu Education was due home.
. She explained that the Ministry of Agriculture has executed 30 million birds before the onset of the disease also refrained 40% of consumers from buying poultry because of fears about bird flu, noting that compensating the owners of the farms is an essential requirement and demand international groups and organizations to help in this crisis and the General Federation Seeks to help educators and that there must be requirements for protecting the jam to get assistance.
. And demanded the support of the poultry industry through the provision of the massacres of poultry since the massacres present covers only 50% of the total poultry production in Egypt, asserting that in the event of a shortage in supply of poultry will be forced the government to reopen the import of poultry from abroad to meet the demand for increase in consumption, stressing that the States Produced poultry farms at cheap prices by these countries produce their own production requirements of fodder and succession.
. The Dr. Irma Balling representative of the United Nations Children's Fund in Egypt, "Cairo" that bird flu hit the 800 farms so far confirmed 50 human cases of bird flu died 22 cases and 60% of them children and 72% of females and 91% of which occurred in homes Residential result breeding birds at home.
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Dr Mona Mehrez Director of the Research Institute for Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt Egypt's losses due to bird flu hit 2 billion pounds so far. ا
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It confirmed that the poultry production reached 1.7 million chickens daily non-domestic birds, which represent 20% of this amount to reach total production to about 2 million birds a day, noting that the high prices of poultry because of high feed prices globally and locally, and not because of bird flu. .
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For his part, Dr. Nasr Mr. Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health that there is no effective treatment prevents bird flu in Egypt by 100% and everything so far been able to offer is to provide 2.5 million doses of the drug Altimflo addition to protective clothing and detergents.http://www.al-sharq.com/DisplayArti...rticle_20080807_57&id=economics&sid=arabworld
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