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EGYPT - Anti-bird flu campaign in five governorates/nationwide

Theresa42

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Google-translated from Arabic:

Anti-bird flu in five provinces of amplified sound in the market and 'Astikrat'
June 22, 2007

Written by Metwalli Salem

Amplified voice in the market, broadcasting appeals warning to the villagers of the danger of bird flu disease, and cars roamed the villages and provinces, home visits to rural women and prints indicative. Beginning national campaign to combat avian flu tomorrow, Saturday.

According to Engineer Hassan Saleh, head of the Central Department of Agricultural Extension, decided to intensify their campaigns for guidance and awareness of prevention methods in the provinces of Menoufia, Dakahlia, Al Gharbiyah and Fayoum, Qena and Luxor.

Saleh added: will be distributed manuals on the directorates of agriculture, health, education, local government and religious endowments and agricultural associations, health units and clubs, mosques, churches and schools in the five governorates.

In the framework of the national plan to combat the disease, said Dr. Saber Abdel Aziz, director of poultry diseases and epidemics in the General Authority for Veterinary Services: the body can provide 86 million doses of new vaccine for H5N1 anti-avian flu disease. He pointed out that he decided to distribute 25 million doses to veterinary departments nationwide, with automatic injection of 1500 to fortify chicks Omar day Palmfarrakat municipality.

Campaigns and implemented according to the most dangerous areas, which centers and border villages nationwide, and the recent focus on immunization centers, which have never fortify [vaccinated], or to fortify over six months or more, followed by the rest of the centers and villages, even if the immune soon.

According to Dr. Saber maps will be used to locate and rural populations of birds, pointing out that the follow-up and plan to be implemented according to the maps.

He said: it is scheduled registration, which protects birds in any house card to be delivered to the poultry with a Asteker placed on the home which is immunizing, and a different houses on the other.

He warned citizens refrain from immunization, asserting that he would edit records and breaches of the unwilling.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=65703
 
Re: EGYPT - Anti-bird flu campaign in five governorates/nationwide

More on the new anti-bf campaign. Hat-tip, pugmom!

Google-translated from Arabic:

The adoption of the national plan to combat avian flu in villages
June 29, 2007

Cairo - Adopted Mr. Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation national plan to combat avian flu disease in Egyptian villages and homes being implemented by the agricultural extension departments in the governorates of Qena and Luxor, Fayyoum, Dakahliya, western [Al Gharbiyah] and Menoufia.

The plan aims to sensitize the public of the dangers of avian influenza disease and education for these birds safe houses in villages along responses to vaccination free of domestic birds in order to prevent the disease in the villages of Egypt.

Eng Hassan Saleh, head of the central administration of agricultural extension had been recruiting engineers each extension and veterinarians to reach rural homes and dealing with people providing sound awareness.

He said that the plan is based on three main axes, the first radio appeals ways of disease prevention in cars equipped with megaphones. Second, the engineers agricultural extension home visits individually and collectively houses and meeting directly with rural Egyptologist, and the third is the provision of manuals and distributed to mosques, churches, schools, clubs and all stakeholders in the municipal districts.

It is known that vaccination campaigns are now free of bird home villages is facing difficulties to the insistence of some parents and nannies to hide birds and not allow Pthsinha the lack of awareness of the seriousness and magnitude of this problem.

http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Politics/june/29/birdflu.aspx
 
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