Egypt - Disease identified as "leishmaniasis" infecting a child in the Sinai - transferred to Cairo hospital for treatment

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Sinai



El Arish General Hospital
El Arish - Khaled Al-Sharif: Since 2 hours 8 minutes
Child injured by m. Q from the village of northern Sinai Blozh disease "Salmonella" is the first time that afflict the human being in this dangerous disease.

Dr. Sami Anwar Director of El-Arish hospital that the disease Salmonella is known to be affecting animals only, and that this is the first case of humans.
and Dr. Anwar that the reason for the emergence of this disease is a type of harmful bacteria, and the symptoms: high fever and vomiting, but has to be Analysis of blood samples to make sure the illness because it is known that he was a serious illness and spreads rapidly among citizens and cause blood clots.


http://www.alwafd.org/صحة/171014-أول-إصابة-بـ-السلامونيلا-بشمال-سيناء

 

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Health emergency in Ismailia after injuring a child to "leishmaniasis"
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 02:25

Hospital
Ismailia - Beauty forestry

The Directorate of Health in Ismailia, a state of emergency as of Thursday evening, after the emergence of the first case of disease "leishmaniasis", which received the University Hospital in Ismailia, a child suffering from inflated nose and injured very sick, and the ambiguity of his condition. has been transferred the child to the hospital Demerdash in Cairo, and there have been discovered disease and the Ministry informed the health directorate in Ismailia to take all precautionary measures for the residence of the patient, a manor track village Sarabium city of Fayed. Medical sources confirmed that leishmaniasis is a disease Tafalay common between man and animal, as caused by the parasite Leishmania which is transmitted from the natural reservoir for him, the different types of wild animals may be the human person is the repository of some geographic areas by the bite of female sand fly (Sand Flies) and increase the spread of disease at intervals of seasonality, especially at the end of autumn and spring and are active the fly on the last day and the beginning of the night and fly at low altitude, and cause of complications respiratory may lead to death in the absence of treatment, as the sand fly abound in humid places and dark roofs of farms and barns so it is necessary to remove the whereabouts of the fly, such as piles of waste and caution during the seasons of the spread of sand fly, especially in the evenings and early morning.

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Published Date: 2012-03-03 11:04:50
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Egypt: (Ismailia Governate)
Archive Number: 20120303.1059507

LEISHMANIASIS ? EGYPT: (ISMAILIA GOVERNORATE)
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012
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The first leishmaniasis call to public in Egypt
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Today, all Egyptian mass media announced the emergence of a new cutaneous leishmaniasis case in Serobion district, Faiad, Ismailia governorate. However, this is not the first time to identify _Leishmania_ infection in Egypt, and approximately 25 cases occurs monthly in the Sinai peninsula, but today is the first time that Egyptian mass media consider leishmaniasis to the public.

Leishmaniasis disease burden was low across much of the country in the twentieth century; in the past decade, however, changing land use and natural disasters have placed several parts of the region at risk. As a consequence, this important disease has become a particularly difficult health problem. Today, Egypt raises the condition of emergence against leishmanasis spread.

The case identified suffers from the characteristic cutaneous leishmaniasis in different parts of the face region (nose, under the left eye, and between the eyes). The wet lesion is the predominant characteristic of the lesions; so, the culprit parasite may be _L. major_.

Abdallah M. Samy, M.Sc
Assistant lecturer of Entomology
Division of vector biology and control
Faculty of Science
Ain Shams University
Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt

Website: http://shams.academia.edu/t/yBp/AbdallahSamy


[Leishmaniasis is endemic in Mediterranean countries including Egypt. In a study of 150 patients with cutaneous lesions, 15.9% were diagnosed with leishmaniasis (El-Khalawany M et al. Clinicopathological features and the practice of diagnosing infectious cutaneous granulomas in Egypt. Int J Infect Dis. 2011;15:e620-6.). The Sinai peninsula is a well know focus in Egypt, and both _Leishmania major_ and _L. tropica_ have been found (Shehata MG et al. First report of _Leishmania tropica_ from a classical focus of _L. major_ in North-Sinai, Egypt. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009;81:213-8).