Egypt finds 13th case of human bird flu

[Theresa42]

Egypt finds 13th case of human bird flu
02 May 2006 21:21:29 GMT
Source: Reuters

CAIRO, May 2 (Reuters) - A 27-year-old Egyptian woman is being treated in hospital for bird flu, the country's 13th human infection with the feared virus, a spokesman from the health ministry said on Tuesday.

The latest victim caught the disease after coming into contact with poultry kept in houses in her family's home town in Manoufiya province, outside of Cairo, spokesman Abdel Rahman Shaheen told the official MENA news agency.

The woman showed symptoms of the illness when she returned to her home in a Cairo suburb and was hospitalised on Monday, Shaheen added.

The woman, who was not named, was being treated in hospital with Tamiflu - the drug used to fight the virus in humans - and was in a stable condition, he said.

Four women have died of bird flu in Egypt since the first human infection was reported in mid-March. The H5N1 bird flu virus was first detected in Egypt in February.

Essentially an animal disease, the virus can infect people who come into close contact with infected birds. It has infected 205 people since late 2003, killing 113 of them.

There are fears the virus could mutate into a form that passes easily from person to person, sparking a pandemic in which millions could die.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02370826.htm

 

[Theresa42]

Al Minufiyah Governorate

Al Minufiyah Governorate

Just as a reminder, Al Minufiyah Governorate is where the 3rd and 4th individuals (young women) to die from H5N1 in Egypt came from (the 11th & 12th cases).

This is also the governorate where there's been several reports of improper disposal of culled birds -- and just dead birds lying in the streets, canals, etc. >>

See here:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4456

And, this from April 23rd:

Machine translated from Arabic:

A non health cemetery of the dead birds amid the houses and the schools in Tlouana is!:
April 23, 2006

Monofiya - Abdul Moneim Hegazi:

The peoples of Tlouana village and the villages near to it expressed in El Bajour their worry and their complaint about an emergence the local unit with the burial of hundreds of the dead birds in one of citizens land in the village on the greenery way - Sers Al-Layan is on the depth of half a metre only despite the opposition of all families that pointed to the burial operation it came in front of the secondary school and beside the Azhar institute and also the primary schools complex and the preparatory one and the commercial secondary. Also they pointed to the arrival of agricultural tractors laden with the dead birds and he buried it by the place that falls amid the residential and school assemblies where the stray dogs have disinterred the land and bringing the buried dead birds and the escape by them distantly by the village areas which threatens them with move the injury between the human being and threatens their life. As the burial operation took place by a non health way and an unsafe where putting the dust only over the dead birds took place.

http://www.alwafd.org/front/detail.php?id=2239&cat=mohafazat

Al Minufiyah Governorate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Minufiyah

 

[Theresa42]

A little more on case 13...

A little more on case 13...

Machine translated from Arabic:

The discovery of a new human state injured with the bird flu disease in Egypt
May 2, 2006

She discovered today "Tuesday" a new human case injured with the bird flu disease ..And she is the state no. 13 that has been discovered for human injuries since Zhouralmrd in Egypt and she to the lady of its age 27 years from Al Shrabia in Cairo but it was exposed to the injury as a result to its mixing to injured house birds in its village in Monoufia Governate.

http://www.alwafd.org/front/ticker_show.php?id=16030&i=2

 

[Theresa42]

Egypt reports new human bird flu case

Egypt reports new human bird flu case

May 03, 2006
Egypt reports new human bird flu case

The Egyptian health authorities announced on Tuesday that a new human bird flu case has been found in Cairo, the official MENA news agency reported.

Health Ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin said that the new case, the 13th since the outbreak of the deadly disease in Egypt, was identified as a 27-year-old lady, who comes from el-Sharabiya district.

The woman was admitted to a Cairo-based hospital on Monday due to fever, severe coughing and dyspnea [shortness of breath], the spokesman was quoted as saying.

An x-ray of the lady's chest proved that the young woman suffered double pneumonia, Shahin said, adding that she had been in close contact with infected domestic fowls.

The discovery of a new H5N1 human case came three days after the Health Ministry said that the country's last bird flu patient had been discharged from a hospital after recovery.

On Sunday, Shahin said that an 18-year-old girl was the last of Egypt's 12 confirmed human cases. Of the total, eight survived and the other four, all women, died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus.

The spokesman also said that bird flu in Egypt is receding.

Egypt reported its first human bird flu case on March 18 and the second on March 27, both of whom were women.

The country found its first outbreak of bird flu virus in poultry on Feb. 17. Soon afterward, the government has taken tough measures to curb the spread of the fatal disease.

The deadly H5N1 strain has killed over 100 people worldwide since its latest outbreak in southeast Asia in late 2003, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Most victims were infected after close contact with sick birds.

The virus currently can only jump from birds to humans, but scientists fear that it could mutate into a form capable of passing easily among humans and thus spark a global pandemic.

Source: Xinhua

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/03/eng20060503_262799.html

 

[Theresa42]

More on the 13th case

More on the 13th case

Machine translated from Arabic:

The stability of the injured state is the number of 13 by the bird flu epidemic
May 4, 2006

She wrote - Sanaa Mostafa:

Doctor Abdul Rahman Shahin the spokesman declared. To the Ministry of Health, the stability of a permission state Abdul Aziz Mohamed injured the number of 13 by the bird flu epidemic and that treats in Al Abasia's chest hospital. Doctor Shahin pointed to that the state the injured aged 27 years, and it stays in Al Shrabia region in Cairo. And she was exposed to the injury by the disease the effect of its confrontation to dead house birds in its village in Monofiya. And was injured she has entered Al Demerdash's hospital at the beginning of May, after the rise of its temperature and its injury with boredom [difficulty] with the respiration and a severe cough. And its transfer to Al Abasia's chest hospital decides. And taking samples took place from the injured peoples and the mixing to them, for their analysis in the central laboratories in the Ministry of Health.

http://www.alwafd.org/front/detail.php?id=12414&cat=smal&PHPSESSID=6014e3bdbed789f9132fa7392629c09e