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Amr Qandil and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive: we are unable to explain the phenomenon of increasing cases of children b ?avian flu?
Dr. Amr Kandil, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health for preventive, increased infection rates of children b ?avian flu? this year, as ?an interesting phenomenon?, stressing that there is no explanation for it so far.
The jellyfish in the dialogue with the ?Egyptian today? The emergence of 15 cases of the disease and has been one death this year, not a sign of a serious, and the first months of the year in which high rates of infection, demonstrating the success of the Ministry of Health to curb the disease, the presence of delegates from some countries Eastern Mediterranean in Cairo, for the identification of the Egyptian experience in the face of the disease ..
The emergence of 16 cases with b ?avian flu? During the 3 months of this year, not a dangerous sign, as compared to last year, which saw only 8 cases?
Can not call it a dangerous sign, because it is known that the peak of the spread of the disease in the first months of the year (January, February and March) and then December, and it is natural that in many cases this time, but if we compare the number last year, it means that we must intensify our efforts because families living on the breeding birds no longer take precautions in dealing with them as we have advocated repeatedly in the media campaigns.
This means that the actions taken by the ministry have been successful in previous years, and left a lot this year?
The problem is that we need to develop our campaigns on an ongoing basis to reach the target audience for each letter, but suffice to say that as long as there are birds in the house takes the disease to family members, and this is why we intensify our campaign in the months of the spread of the disease.
Q: What is the most important actions that the ministry is keen to follow to curb the disease?
The monitoring process, as we have done reveal a strong network of all suspected cases if it appears that symptoms of the disease, so we detected the 6396 case of suspicion since the beginning of the disease in 2006, confirmed in the case of only 67, including 24 deaths.
Q: What are the causes of injuries this year, focusing on children less than 5 years?
We did not find an explanation, so far, but it is an interesting phenomenon, so we have the work of the Committee in the Ministry of Health researchers and doctors with the World Health Organization, to identify the circumstances that led to the injury of children infected.
What are the main causes of the Committee?
Not yet finished the research, because it is a period of not less than 6 months.
Q: What personal Tvsirc of that phenomenon?
My only explanation is inherent in young children of mothers in this age on a permanent basis, especially at the time of feeding the birds, where all or bring their sons and leave them playing with the flu, until the completion of their domestic work and, of course, vulnerable child is much weaker than with the virus.
Q: Do you have to do with the Pthor disease?
Have not spotted so far no cases of the disease mutation, since 2006 his condition had not changed to date, if any mutate another phase this means too many differences in the symptoms of the disease, and how the treatment, which did not happen in all cases to date.
Focus the majority of cases of Upper Egypt, and that means there is more endemic of the Lower Egypt?
There is no evidence of that, there are 5 cases out of respect, Menya, Fayoum and Qena, of the total 16 cases, representing one third of the rates of injury, does not mean that the disease is endemic in the level or other, but in view of the remaining cases, we find it in Menoufiya, Suez, Alexandria and the lake, October 6, which is another indicator that the disease focus in one place.
Not you think that the elimination of the disease over three years and the high number of casualties are an indication of the endemic in Egypt?
The basis of human disease is not influenza, but, so ask the Ministry of Agriculture, and of course as long as the birds represent income for many families, it is difficult to stop the spread of the disease, but the word ?establishment? much more I do not know the extent of its validity.
After that, Egypt was in fifth place after China, Djibouti, and others, this year was a more advanced, may change from the ministry's plan to combat the disease?
Of course not, because our experience has shown success and proof of this is that despite the existence of event of the death of a single, we are least in terms of mortality compared with other countries, the mortality rate in the world reached 66%, while in Egypt, no more than 40%, and this means the existence of surveillance good of the Ministry of Health and the early detection of the disease, as well as a tribute to the transparency of global bodies and the Ministry of Health reports on the number of sick and injured and clear without any concealment of such information, is evidence of our success.
Q: What is the most important steps being implemented to counter the disease?
We will continue to intensify our campaigns, which included information Tnoehat 7 different campaigns in addition to the ten-by Shaaban Abdul Rahim, and continue in the program of rural leaders who go to remote villages and poor awareness of how women maintain their health and their children from the disease, and convoys of outreach programs and health seminars and hotline 105, which receive more than 200 daily contact to inquire about the disease, with a focus in the coming period to mention the children because they are most vulnerable at this time, pending the identification of the causes of the phenomenon.
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حوار مها البهنساوى ٢٣/ ٤/ ٢٠٠٩
Dialogue Bahnasawi Maha 4-23-2009 <table style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left; direction: ltr;" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top">وصف الدكتور عمرو قنديل، وكيل وزارة الصحة للشؤون الوقائية، زيادة معدلات إصابة الأطفال بـ?أنفلونزا الطيور? هذا العام، بأنها ?ظاهرة مثيرة للاهتمام?، مؤكداً عدم وجود تفسير لذلك حتى الآن.
Dr. Amr Kandil, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health for preventive, increased infection rates of children b ?avian flu? this year, as ?an interesting phenomenon?, stressing that there is no explanation for it so far.
وقال قنديل فى حواره مع ?المصرى اليوم? إن ظهور ١٥ حالة إصابة بالمرض وحالة وفاة واحدة هذا العام، ليس مؤشراً خطيراً، وأن الشهور الأولى من العام تكثر فيها معدلات الإصابة بالمرض، مدللاً على نجاح وزارة الصحة فى محاصرة المرض، بحضور مندوبين من بعض دول شرق المتوسط إلى القاهرة، للتعرف على التجربة المصرية فى مواجهة المرض..
The jellyfish in the dialogue with the ?Egyptian today? The emergence of 15 cases of the disease and has been one death this year, not a sign of a serious, and the first months of the year in which high rates of infection, demonstrating the success of the Ministry of Health to curb the disease, the presence of delegates from some countries Eastern Mediterranean in Cairo, for the identification of the Egyptian experience in the face of the disease ..
وإلى نص الحوار.
And to the text of the dialogue. * ظهور ١٦ حالة مصابة بـ?أنفلونزا الطيور? خلال ٣ أشهر فقط العام الحالى، ألا يمثل مؤشراً خطيراً، مقارنة بالعام الماضى الذى شهد ٨ حالات فقط؟
* The emergence of 16 cases with b ?avian flu? During the 3 months of this year, not a dangerous sign, as compared to last year, which saw only 8 cases?
- لا يمكن أن نسميها مؤشراً خطيراً، لأنه معروف أن ذروة انتشار المرض تكون فى الشهور الأولى من السنة (يناير وفبراير ومارس) ثم ديسمبر، ومن الطبيعى أن تكثر الحالات فى هذا الوقت، لكن إذا قارنا العدد بالعام الماضى فهو يعنى أنه علينا تكثيف جهودنا لأن الأسر التى تعيش على تربية الطيور لم تعد تأخذ احتياطاتها فى التعامل معها مثلما نادينا مراراً فى الحملات الإعلامية.
- Can not call it a dangerous sign, because it is known that the peak of the spread of the disease in the first months of the year (January, February and March) and then December, and it is natural that in many cases this time, but if we compare the number last year, it means that we must intensify our efforts because families living on the breeding birds no longer take precautions in dealing with them as we have advocated repeatedly in the media campaigns.
* معنى ذلك أن الإجراءات التى اتخذتها الوزارة كانت ناجحة فى الأعوام السابقة وينقصها الكثير هذا العام؟
* This means that the actions taken by the ministry have been successful in previous years, and left a lot this year?
- المشكلة أننا بحاجة إلى تطوير حملاتنا بشكل مستمر لتصل الرسالة لكل الجمهور المستهدف، لكن يكفى القول إنه ما دامت هناك طيور فى المنزل فهناك مرض يحيط بأفراد الأسرة، وهذا ما يجعلنا نكثف الحملات فى شهور انتشار المرض.
- The problem is that we need to develop our campaigns on an ongoing basis to reach the target audience for each letter, but suffice to say that as long as there are birds in the house takes the disease to family members, and this is why we intensify our campaign in the months of the spread of the disease.
* ما أهم الإجراءات التى تحرص الوزارة على اتباعها لمحاصرة المرض؟
Q: What is the most important actions that the ministry is keen to follow to curb the disease?
- عملية الرصد، لأننا قمنا بعمل شبكة قوية تكشف عن كل الحالات المشتبه فيها إذا ظهر عليها أعراض المرض، حتى أننا رصدنا ٦٣٩٦ حالة اشتباه منذ بداية المرض فى ٢٠٠٦، تأكدت إصابة ٦٧ حالة منهم فقط، منها ٢٤حالة وفاة.
- The monitoring process, as we have done reveal a strong network of all suspected cases if it appears that symptoms of the disease, so we detected the 6396 case of suspicion since the beginning of the disease in 2006, confirmed in the case of only 67, including 24 deaths.
* ما أسباب تركز الإصابات هذا العام فى الأطفال الأقل من ٥ سنوات؟
Q: What are the causes of injuries this year, focusing on children less than 5 years?
- لم نجد تفسيراً لذلك حتى الآن، لكنها ظاهرة مثيرة للاهتمام، لذا قمنا بعمل لجنة فى وزارة الصحة من الباحثين والأطباء بمشاركة منظمة الصحة العالمية، للتعرف على الظروف التى أدت إلى إصابة الأطفال بالمرض.
- We did not find an explanation, so far, but it is an interesting phenomenon, so we have the work of the Committee in the Ministry of Health researchers and doctors with the World Health Organization, to identify the circumstances that led to the injury of children infected.
* ما أهم الأسباب التى توصلت إليها اللجنة؟
* What are the main causes of the Committee?
- لم تنته اللجنة بعد من أبحاثها، لأنها تستغرق فترة لا تقل عن ٦ أشهر.
- Not yet finished the research, because it is a period of not less than 6 months.
* وما تفسيرك الشخصى لتلك الظاهرة؟
Q: What personal Tvsirc of that phenomenon?
- تفسيرى الوحيد هو ملازمة الأطفال الصغار لأمهاتهم فى هذه السن بشكل دائم، خاصة وقت إطعام الطيور، حيث تصطحب كل أم أبناءها وتتركهم يلعبون مع الطيور، لحين انتهائها من أعمالها المنزلية، وبالطبع مناعة الطفل أضعف بكثير من تحمل هذا الفيروس.
- My only explanation is inherent in young children of mothers in this age on a permanent basis, especially at the time of feeding the birds, where all or bring their sons and leave them playing with the flu, until the completion of their domestic work and, of course, vulnerable child is much weaker than with the virus.
* هل لذلك علاقة بتحور المرض؟
Q: Do you have to do with the Pthor disease?
- لم نرصد حتى الآن أى حالات لتحور المرض، فمنذ ٢٠٠٦ لم تتغير حالته إلى الآن، وفى حالة تحوره لأى طور آخر فهذا معناه اختلافات كثيرة فى أعراض المرض، وكيفية علاجه، وهو ما لم يحدث فى كل الحالات إلى وقتنا هذا.
- Have not spotted so far no cases of the disease mutation, since 2006 his condition had not changed to date, if any mutate another phase this means too many differences in the symptoms of the disease, and how the treatment, which did not happen in all cases to date.
* تركز معظم الحالات فى الوجه القبلى، ألا يعنى توطن المرض هناك أكثر من الوجه البحرى؟
* Focus the majority of cases of Upper Egypt, and that means there is more endemic of the Lower Egypt?
- ليس هناك دليل على ذلك، هناك ٥ حالات فقط من الصعيد، وفى المنيا والفيوم وقنا، من إجمالى ١٦ حالة، وهى تمثل ثلث معدلات الإصابة، وليس معنى ذلك أن المرض توطن فى الصعيد أو غيره، بل إنه بالنظر إلى باقى الحالات نجد أنها فى المنوفية والسويس والبحيرة والإسكندرية و٦ أكتوبر، وهو مؤشر آخر يدل على عدم تركز المرض فى مكان واحد.
- There is no evidence of that, there are 5 cases out of respect, Menya, Fayoum and Qena, of the total 16 cases, representing one third of the rates of injury, does not mean that the disease is endemic in the level or other, but in view of the remaining cases, we find it in Menoufiya, Suez, Alexandria and the lake, October 6, which is another indicator that the disease focus in one place.
* ألا ترى أن عدم القضاء على المرض على مدار ثلاثة أعوام وارتفاع عدد المصابين يعتبران مؤشراً لتوطنه فى مصر؟
* Not you think that the elimination of the disease over three years and the high number of casualties are an indication of the endemic in Egypt?
- أساس المرض ليس الإنسان لكنه الطيور، لذا تُسأل فى ذلك وزارة الزراعة، وبالطبع طالما أن تربية الطيور تمثل دخلاً للعديد من الأسر، فمن الصعب توقف انتشار المرض، لكن كلمة ?توطن? أكبر من ذلك بكثير ولا أعرف مدى صحتها.
- The basis of human disease is not influenza, but, so ask the Ministry of Agriculture, and of course as long as the birds represent income for many families, it is difficult to stop the spread of the disease, but the word ?establishment? much more I do not know the extent of its validity.
* بعد أن كانت مصر فى المركز الخامس بعد الصين وجيبوتى وغيرهما، احتلت هذا العام مركزاً أكثر تقدماً، هل سيغير ذلك من خطة الوزارة لمكافحة المرض؟
* After that, Egypt was in fifth place after China, Djibouti, and others, this year was a more advanced, may change from the ministry's plan to combat the disease?
- بالطبع لا، لأن تجربتنا أثبتت نجاحها والدليل على ذلك، إنه بالرغم من وجود حالة وفاة وحيدة، فإننا الأقل من حيث الوفيات مقارنة بالدول الأخرى، فمعدل الوفيات على مستوى العالم وصل إلى ٦٦٪، بينما فى مصر لم يتعد ٤٠٪ وهذا يعنى وجود ترصد جيد من وزارة الصحة واكتشاف مبكر للمرض، بالإضافة إلى إشادة الهيئات العالمية بشفافية وزارة الصحة فى تقاريرها عن عدد المرضى والمصابين بشكل واضح دون إخفاء أى من تلك المعلومات، هى أدلة على نجاحنا.
- Of course not, because our experience has shown success and proof of this is that despite the existence of event of the death of a single, we are least in terms of mortality compared with other countries, the mortality rate in the world reached 66%, while in Egypt, no more than 40%, and this means the existence of surveillance good of the Ministry of Health and the early detection of the disease, as well as a tribute to the transparency of global bodies and the Ministry of Health reports on the number of sick and injured and clear without any concealment of such information, is evidence of our success.
* ما أهم الخطوات الجارى تنفيذها لمواجهة المرض؟
Q: What is the most important steps being implemented to counter the disease?
- سنظل نكثف حملاتنا الإعلامية التى تضمنت ٧ تنويهات مختلفة، بالإضافة إلى الحملات العشر التى يقدمها شعبان عبدالرحيم، ونستمر فى برنامج الرائدات الريفيات اللاتى يتوجهن إلى القرى النائية والفقيرة لتوعية السيدات بكيفية الحفاظ على صحتهن وأولادهن من المرض، وبرامج قوافل التوعية والندوات الصحية والخط الساخن ١٠٥ الذى يتلقى يومياً أكثر من ٢٠٠ اتصال للاستفسار عن المرض، مع التركيز فى الفترة المقبلة على التنويه للأطفال لأنهم الأكثر عرضة فى الوقت الحالى، لحين التعرف على أسباب تلك الظاهرة.
- We will continue to intensify our campaigns, which included information Tnoehat 7 different campaigns in addition to the ten-by Shaaban Abdul Rahim, and continue in the program of rural leaders who go to remote villages and poor awareness of how women maintain their health and their children from the disease, and convoys of outreach programs and health seminars and hotline 105, which receive more than 200 daily contact to inquire about the disease, with a focus in the coming period to mention the children because they are most vulnerable at this time, pending the identification of the causes of the phenomenon.
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