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EGYPT - Feb 16th - Feb 23rd

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Machine-translated from Arabic:

The rescue of patient is 21 by the bird flu .. A life ..Or a death
Feb 15, 2007

Abdallah Hashem wrote: Doctor Abdul Rahman Shahin the Ministry of Health deputy confirmed that the condition of the patient no. 21 is by the bird flu Nadia Mohamed Abdul Hafez "from Al Fayyum" a stable. And she is submitted to an accurate medical supervision extremely until the blockade of virus is possible. He said that the use of Al Tamiflou drug takes place as the only treatment available for fighting the disease but with other antibiotics.

He added that there is no any human injuries in poultry farms [for] several months ago.

The veterinary medicine departments declared the discovery of two new foci of the virus in Gharbiya Governorate and suspicion condition by its symptoms in Port Said and the execution of all birds has taken place in Ismailia markets.

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/first/detail09.asp
 
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15 negs from "persons involved with dead birds." (Maybe daily updates are back...!)

Statement of the Supreme National Committee to Combat Bird Flu Thursday
February 15, 2007

The ministerial committee chaired by the Minister of Health followed up the spread of bird flu and the measures taken to combat the deadly virus as follows:

First: 15 specimens [dunno which ones, unfortunately -- they aren't necessarily from sus cases] have been checked for persons involved with dead birds (raised at homes) from the governorates of Qalyoubia, Gharbiya, Fayyoum, Sharqiya, Daqahliya, Giza, Qena and Sohag. All specimens tested negative.

Second: Daily report regarding the spread of the deadly virus:

Qena: One case tested positive among the birds (for ducks raised at home), at Arment. All the infected birds were culled and all the involved persons were checked. All results tested negative.

Menya: One case tested positive among the birds (for geese and chicken raised at home) at Beni Mazar. All the infected birds were culled and all the involved persons will be checked.

Sohag: One case tested positive among the birds (for geese and ducks raised at home) at Ikhmeem. All the infected birds were culled and all the involved persons were checked. All results tested negative.

Gharbiya: Three cases tested positive among the birds (ducks and chicken raised at home) at Tanta. All the infected birds were culled and all the involved persons were checked. All results tested negative.

Alexandria: One case tested positive among the birds (for geese and chicken raised at home) at Montazah. All the infected birds were culled and all the involved persons will be checked.

http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu01021164.htm
 
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Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry

16 Feb 2007 13:51:14 GMT

Source: Reuters

CAIRO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A 5-year-old Egyptian boy has tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus, bringing the number of cases in Egypt to 22, the health ministry said in a statement.

Officials from the World Health Organisation were not immediately available to confirm the case.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16926446.htm
 
EGYPT - Feb 16th - Feb 23rd

Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry
16 Feb 2007 13:51:14 GMT
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CAIRO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A 5-year-old Egyptian boy has tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus, bringing the number of cases in Egypt to 22, the health ministry said in a statement.

Officials from the World Health Organisation were not immediately available to confirm the case.

http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/L16926446.htm
 
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, child infected

16 Feb 2007 14:49:43 GMT

Source: Reuters

(Adds 5-year-old boy reported infected)

By Cynthia Johnston

CAIRO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman died of bird flu in a Cairo hospital and a boy, 5, became the 22nd Egyptian to test positive for the deadly disease, health officials said on Friday.

A World Health Organisation expert said a delay in reporting symptoms was largely behind the most recent deaths in Egypt. A mutated strain that killed three people in December is not suspected to have recurred, officials say.

The woman who died, 37-year-old Nadia Abdel Hafez, had been reported in a stable and improving condition after being transferred to a hospital in Cairo, but her condition later deteriorated.

"She died yesterday evening," said Amr Qandil, director of communicable diseases at the Egyptian Health Ministry.

The boy, 5-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman of Sharqiya province, was in a stable condition and being treated with Tamiflu. He tested positive for bird flu after developing a high fever on Wednesday, a health ministry statement said.

Egypt has the highest known cluster of human bird flu cases outside Asia, with 21 known human cases since the virus first surfaced in Egyptian poultry a year ago. Thirteen have died.

Abdel Hafez, who kept birds at her home, was admitted to hospital on Feb. 12 after coming into contact with infected poultry. She was from Fayoum, the same province where a 17-year-old girl died of bird flu earlier this month.

Most people infected in Egypt had been in contact with poultry kept at home. Bird flu initially caused panic across the country and did extensive damage to the poultry industry, although the sector has largely recovered.

John Jabbour, a WHO official in Cairo, said a delay in reporting symptoms was making bird flu more deadly in Egypt, where many people keep birds at home but are often reluctant to disclose that to health officials for fear of sanctions.

FATALITY RATE RISING

The fatality rate from bird flu this winter is significantly higher than it was between March and May 2006, before the country witnessed a 5-month warm-weather lull in human cases.

Just six died of 14 people who contracted bird flu in Egypt between March 2006 -- when the virus first surfaced in humans in the country -- and May when human cases briefly disappeared.

Eight Egyptians have contracted bird flu since the disease reappeared in humans in Egypt in October. Seven have died, including three with a mutation that made the disease "moderately" resistant to Tamiflu.

Jabbour said Abdel Hafez had noticed symptoms on Feb. 7 but did not enter hospital until five days later.

"They are not reporting very quickly. They are denying exposure," Jabbour told Reuters, saying that meant the start of treatment was dangerously delayed.

"This is what is creating this problem here, the fatal condition of the influenza virus in Egypt."

Officials have said the 17-year-old infected earlier this month also died largely because she did not get treatment early enough. She was initially treated for seasonal flu after her family denied she had come into contact with sick birds.

Neither of the two Fayoum cases were suspected to have been infected with a mutated strain of the H5N1 virus that killed three Egyptian members of one family in December. That mutation has not resurfaced.

Health experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that passes easily from human to human, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions. The virus has killed 167 people worldwide since 2003, mainly in Asia.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16914778.htm
 
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, child infected
Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:55 AM ET



By Cynthia Johnston
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman died of bird flu in a Cairo hospital and a boy, 5, became the 22nd Egyptian to test positive for the deadly disease, health officials said on Friday.
A World Health Organization expert said a delay in reporting symptoms was largely behind the most recent deaths in Egypt. A mutated strain that killed three people in December is not suspected to have recurred, officials say.
The woman who died, 37-year-old Nadia Abdel Hafez, had been reported in a stable and improving condition after being transferred to a hospital in Cairo, but her condition later deteriorated.
"She died yesterday evening," said Amr Qandil, director of communicable diseases at the Egyptian Health Ministry.
The boy, 5-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman of Sharqiya province, was in a stable condition and being treated with Tamiflu. He tested positive for bird flu after developing a high fever on Wednesday, a health ministry statement said.
Egypt has the highest known cluster of human bird flu cases outside Asia, with 21 known human cases since the virus first surfaced in Egyptian poultry a year ago. Thirteen have died.
Abdel Hafez, who kept birds at her home, was admitted to hospital on February 12 after coming into contact with infected poultry. She was from Fayoum, the same province where a 17-year-old girl died of bird flu earlier this month.
Most people infected in Egypt had been in contact with poultry kept at home. Bird flu initially caused panic across the country and did extensive damage to the poultry industry, although the sector has largely recovered.
John Jabbour, a WHO official in Cairo, said a delay in reporting symptoms was making bird flu more deadly in Egypt, where many people keep birds at home but are often reluctant to disclose that to health officials for fear of sanctions.
FATALITY RATE RISING
The fatality rate from bird flu this winter is significantly higher than it was between March and May 2006, before the country witnessed a 5-month warm-weather lull in human cases.
Just six died of 14 people who contracted bird flu in Egypt between March 2006 -- when the virus first surfaced in humans in the country -- and May when human cases briefly disappeared.
Eight Egyptians have contracted bird flu since the disease reappeared in humans in Egypt in October. Seven have died, including three with a mutation that made the disease "moderately" resistant to Tamiflu.
Jabbour said Abdel Hafez had noticed symptoms on February 7 but did not enter hospital until five days later.
"They are not reporting very quickly. They are denying exposure," Jabbour told Reuters, saying that meant the start of treatment was dangerously delayed.
"This is what is creating this problem here, the fatal condition of the influenza virus in Egypt."
Officials have said the 17-year-old infected earlier this month also died largely because she did not get treatment early enough. She was initially treated for seasonal flu after her family denied she had come into contact with sick birds.
Neither of the two Fayoum cases were suspected to have been infected with a mutated strain of the H5N1 virus that killed three Egyptian members of one family in December. That mutation has not resurfaced.
Health experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that passes easily from human to human, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions. The virus has killed 167 people worldwide since 2003, mainly in Asia.

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...16914778_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-EGYPT-DEATH.xml
 
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Google-translated from Arabic:

The death of a new bird influenza in Fayyoum
Feb 16, 2007

Cairo-MENA - Dr. Abdel-Rahman Shahin pain speaking official of the Ministry of Health and Population, the situation Althea gum ten infected bird influenza died Friday the woman from the village Hait blow the "Atsa" Zone A. day.

He pointed out that there are new infections of a child of 5 years from the Center Mchtol market [which is near Bilbes, I think] Sharqia [Ash Sharqiyah governorate], thus, rising to 22 injured.

Dr Abdul Rahman is that Ms. Shaheen Club e Abdul Hafiz "37 years" entered the hospital pathogenesis of Fayoum U m February 12 suffering from the current rise in the degree of the most pressing Rara with the presence of pneumonia, been transferred to the hospital in the chest on 14 of Abbassiya the same month.

He added that they had been given the necessary treatment as soon as it enters the Hospital, It was an epidemiological investigation of all family members walked OL they infection first session since the emergence of disease and death in Egypt this case the number of deaths 13 h god, and the remaining cases have recovered.

http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Politics/February/16/birdflufayom.aspx
 
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Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry

He pointed out that there are new infections of a child of 5 years from the Center Mchtol market [which is near Bilbes, I think] Sharqia [Ash Sharqiyah governorate], thus, rising to 22 injured.
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"Mchtol market" is a district southwest of Bilbes in Ash Sharqiyah governorate. It borders on Al Qalubiyah governorate.

Bilbes:
http://www.travelpost.com/AF/Egypt/Ash_Sharqiyah/Bilbes/map/5934273

Ash Sharqiyah Governorate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sharqiyah_(Egypt)

http://www.sharkia.gov.eg/gov_info_loc.asp

Mchtol Market.jpg
 
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The name of the 5 year-old pos case ... and, outbreaks in poultry in Qina and Suhaj/Sohag ....

Google-translated from Arabic:

The death of the victim <No. 13> avian influenza infection and will use told in the East. The new hotbeds canal
Feb 17, 2007

The Ministry of Health announced yesterday the death of a housewife from the province A. on affected by HIV infected <H 5 N 1> causes Anfl Mba and birds, The number of dead due to illness in Egypt, a I have 13 people.

He said Dr. Rahman Shahin, Spokesman for the Ministry of Health that Nadia Mohamed Abdul Hafiz - 37 years - died after hit H5N1 avian influenza, He pointed out that it had entered hospital on 12 pathogenesis of Fayoum FP Rair current after she was diagnosed with high fever and in the degree of the most pressing Rara and pneumonia. been transferred to the hospital in the chest on 14 of Abbassiya the same month as the treatment Baltamevlo [Tamiflu].

Shahin revealed the existence of new infections of the child Muhammad Ahmed Suleiman, 5 years from the market town in eastern Mchtol, explaining that the number of infected bringing to 22 Mus Pa.

In terms of the spread of the disease among birds revealed the results of Walt Halil medical conducted by a committee of the Directorate of Forensic a the veterinarian in Qena, the emergence of a new hotbed of infected birds e virus, been executed and buried 41 chickens from ducks and 8 were immunized Ott Aim birds village and the surrounding villages.

As revealed rapid response teams Department of Medicine Alpes in Sohag applauded the focus of the other infected with the virus at the center Akhmim was taking preventive action in the M. Hitha one kilometer.

It warned more than 100 experts and officials in the world struggling e epidemics that turn the specter of avian influenza virus Wa Ntakalh between human beings has become closer to confirming that the verification of Yassin can only wait rights epidemic.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=48406&r=t
 
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Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry

News from the village where the 5 year-old confirmed case, Muhammad Ahmed Suleiman, is from. Family bought 20 chicks, 18 of which died. Family/neighbors tested. Poultry in area culled....

Google-translated from Arabic:

After injuring the 24 bird influenza
The declaration of a state of emergency in the eastern village Alpteh
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health: The child's family, Mohamed Suleiman bought 20 chicks. The disease infected
To strengthen the town 13 thousand bird. Free
Feb 17, 2007

Timor-Abd-al-Ati Mohammed: Yahya said that the East-Majid governor been to declare a state of maximum emergency after the injury to the child pw D Suleiman Ahmed Sakr [Muhammad Ahmed Suleiman] "five years" from the village center Alpteh m seedlings market with the avian flu and there is a result the positive samples and transfer the injured to hospital, the child MUNCH Yeh Bakry Cairo and accountable for treatment.

The governor added that he was sending a team of health and medicine Alpes applauded and police bodies, the environment and the City Council to m the situation came down No. 24 Alpteh village and all corresponding brain mud direct of the situation at home and they grandfather, and his father, his brother, daughter and neighbors and notes that the health status of all c handheld.

Dr. Sayed Abul Khair Mahmoud, undersecretary of the Ministry of right e He moved to the village at the head of a medical team was withdrawn appointed AT survey hours and nose and Serme "blood samples" of them was sent the central labs to the ministry. In addition to a workshop to all indirect Almkhalten Yen case of the houses nearby. The 10 samples taken from the house the birds and 10 samples brother irrigation of birds nearby houses and clearing house situation, neighboring houses to the streets surrounding the house of the case e.

Attributed Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health of a child to a family the purchase of 20 chicks and breeding home. The child was dealing with. The death of 18 chickens and the virus moved from Aldja c injured him as the temperature was transferred to the felt Healed.

Added Dr. Attiya Mustafa, undersecretary of the Ministry of veterinary medicine that action had been taken immediate preventive villages e and the execution of 17 and Djajtin Hurchier duck and duck house Child The execution of 30 birds Bashch highest rooftops and village buried and dredging Balformalin places.

He noted that 13 thousand were vaccinated bird village since four e fortify months will be again today, "Saturday" Palm committees and the general situation is reassuring.

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/accedents/detail03.asp
 
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Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry

Neighbor -- also a child -- of 5 year-old confirmed case also hospitalized...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

Bidding farewell the victim "13" to the bird flu in Al Fayyum and cutting off the electricity about the poultry shops in Monofiya
Feb 18, 2007

A village bid farewell to the wish of line in Al Fayyum yesterday, Nadia Mohamed Abdul Hafez's body that the victim became a number "13" to the bird flu.

And Abir Ali Khalaf, the student by the secondary stage and the victim daughter, said that she was hoping the recovery of her mother, after the doctors took the initiative in their reassurance about its health condition, but its departure news was faster, and its sister "Rasha" said: its [her] late mother was breeding poultry in the house, died all since 17 a day, and from her a proper did not remain a single duck that the health committee took, the one that attended to the house last Wednesday, and she explained that the disease symptoms appeared on their mother after the death of these birds.

And in the eastern [Ash Sharqiyah], the Health Department imposed the quarantine on the son village, after the reaching the certainty of the child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman injury from the age 5 years by the bird flu.

And doctor Ahmed Al Azzazi the Health Department deputy declared in the eastern [Ash Sharqiyah], about the detention of child Shaimaa Abdul Nabi Abdul Azim in the hospital of Zagazig fevers, for its injury by symptoms similar to the bird flu, and Shaimaa stays in the house neighboring child Mohamed's house that moved from the hospital of the Mashtool of the central market to Al Bakri's facility hospital in Cairo the day before yesterday.

And in Monofiya [Al Minufiyah], doctor Mostafa Al Maraghi the Ministry of Health deputy declared the cutting off of waters and electric current About the shops of selling the alive birds until they do not return to the exercise of their activity.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=48502&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16782
 
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Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

The authorities report that the neighbor of the 5 year-old positive case has tested neg -- at least on initial tests. They also deny that the 5 year old has died. Hat-tip to pugmom for finding this article!

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The Ministry of Health is denied the death of condition 22 is by the bird flu disease
Feb 18, 2007

The banishment of doctor Nasr Al Sayed the Ministry of Health undersecretary by the preventive sector Sunday is a validity what was announced around the death of child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman "5 years" from a center "Mashtool the market" Sharqiya Governorate and injured by the bird flu disease, confirming that the general child condition is stable and in an improvement.

And doctor Nasr said that the child was suffering last Wednesday [Feb 14] from a rise in the temperature and have been transferred to the hospital of Al Mrg chest and taking a sample took place from him and after the positivity of its injury was confirmed by the bird flu disease that its giving Al Tamiflou drug took place and it was transferred to Al Bakri's facility hospital last Friday where its condition settled.

And it's worth mentioning that that condition is the injury no. 22 injured by the disease since its appearance in Egypt in February from last year and until now and between these conditions 13 case was dead.

This comes in the time that the child analyses results suspect of their injury by the bird flu came in it "a passivity" [negative], where the child Shaimaa Abdul Nabi Abdul Azim left from Petite village in Sharqiya Governorate from the hospital of Zagazig fevers after she proved the analyses of the taken samples from them their passivity and their non injury are by the bird flu disease.

And doctor Sayed Abul Kheir the Ministry of Health and Population deputy by the eastern [Al Sharqiya] stated that this child has been detained in the hospital after the appearance of symptoms on her that resembles the bird flu symptoms during the examination operation of the contacts to the child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman Saqr from the same village.

And doctor Abu Al-Khayr added that the analysis of samples took place from the earring [?] and the nose to all of the contacts to the child and have came all a negative to the disease.

And the Ministry of Health has declared last Friday the death of a woman after its injury by bird flu disease so that the condition no. 13 that was dead for its injury by the virus in Egypt.

And Nadia Abdul Hafez was "37 years" and she lives in a village they promised the line is the district of "Etsa" in Al Fayum Governate she entered the hospital of Al Fayyum fevers 12 February and she suffers from a rise in the temperature with the presence of a pneumonia, and have been transferred to Al Sadr's hospital by the Abbasid one day of 14 of the same month and its giving the necessary treatment took place just after its entrance of the hospital, and the investigation's holding of the epidemic investigation to all family individuals.

http://www.nilenews.tv/news/newsdetails.aspx?Show=1185

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16798
 
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From the article/machine-translation above:
Theresa42 said:
...samples took place from the earring [?] and the nose...
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That should read samples "from the throat and the nose."
 
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2 more sus cases from Al Fayyum...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The suspicion of the injury of two women by the bird flu
Feb 19, 2007

Al Fayyum - The Fever Hospital in Al Fayyum received two women for the suspicion of their injury by the bird flu disease.

The two Mrs. are Samia Eissa Abdul Salam 36 of Srsna village in Tamiyah district and Sahar Mohamed Ghanem 27 years from Sonbat village in Al Fayyum district.

And the birds have dead in the women houses and injured by symptoms that resemble the bird flu and immediately he decided doctor Hussein Abu Taleb the Ministry of Health deputy in Al Fayyum decided their referral to the Fever Hospital and taking the preventive measures took place with the partnership of systems of bodies concerned in the veterinary medicine, the provision and the local units.

http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Politics/February/19/flu_fayoum.aspx

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16804
 
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19 February 2007
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced a new human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection. The case was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory and by the US Naval Medical Research Unit No.3 (NAMRU-3).
The 5-year-old boy was admitted to hospital with symptoms on 14 February, and his condition remains stable. The boy was exposed to sick birds one week prior to the onset of symptoms. Contacts of the boy remain healthy and have been placed under close observation.
Of the 22 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 13 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_02_19/en/index.html
 
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Update on case number 21 avian influenza and new confirmed case number 22
Egypt update (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office)
18 February 2007
AvianInfluenza.jpg
Case Number: 21
Gender: Female
Age: 37 year
Governorate: Fayyoum
Prognosis: Died on the 16<SUP>th</SUP> of February 2007 (1:00 am)New confirmed human case of avian influenza on 15 February 2007

Case Number: 22
Gender: Male
Age: 5 years
Governorate: Sharqiah
Occupation: Child
Specimens: Throat swab and blood specimens; all specimens were tested positive for H5N1 in both the Central Public Health Laboratory and NAMRU-3. Samples were taken on the 15<SUP>th</SUP> of February 2007
Date of onset of symptoms: 14 February 2007
Clinical history: the patient was admitted to Shbeen Kanater fever hospital on 14 February 2007 and transferred to General Manshiet Al Bakri Hospital on the 15<SUP>th</SUP> of the same month. He is currently treated with Tamiflu.
Prognosis: His condition is stable and still alive.
Exposure status: the patient was exposed to backyard infected birds one week before the onset of symptoms. Direct and indirect contacts are still under surveillance. They are healthy until this date. The house was immediately disinfected following the confirmation of the case.

This brings up the total number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 22 with 13 deaths.

http://www.emro.who.int/
 
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Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

Authorities try to contain bird flu
Feb 19, 2007

An outbreak of bird flu in Russia has been contained, Russian authorities said, while Egypt continues to battle the largest epidemic of the virus outside of Asia.

[*snip* - posted in Russia thread]

Epidemic

In Egypt, five-year old Mohamed Ahmed Soliman is the youngest sufferer and the 22nd person in the country to contract the virus.

He contracted the virus at home where his family keeps chickens, ducks and geese. But doctors say so far he's responding well to treatment.

Yossri Ragab, a doctor at Mansheyat Al-Bakry Hospital in Cairo, told Al Jazeera: "In severe cases like his, we use lots of antibiotics to prevent any minor microbic infections in the chest. He's better now."

The Egyptian government ensures farmers vaccinate their birds when they are one day old but the virus has still claimed 13 lives since the first cases were reported in Egypt in late 2004.

Most of those who have died kept birds at home, considered an Egyptian tradition in both urban and rural areas.

The practice has been banned by the government but the restriction is largely ignored by the public.

Amr El-Kahky, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Egypt, said: "It will take more than talk and awareness campaigns to convince people to get rid of the birds they keep. For many Egyptians living in poverty the birds are their only source of food and at the same time their greatest threat."

The H5N1 virus has caused 270 reported human infections worldwide since 2003 and as of last month had killed 164.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BCC647B3-5EEB-4D60-A904-6FEB197F07F9.htm

There's a photo of Mohamed Ahmed Soliman with the article. He doesn't look too sick -- he's sitting up wearing a mask -- no ventilator or anything.
 
Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

Hi theresa, the boy is globaly well.
I ve seen him at the French TV in a reportage ( because the french Minister for health went to Egypt this WE , and was in hospital )
 
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