EGYPT - Increase in the Ministry of Health's state of emergency re. bird flu

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Upgrade of emergency in the Ministry of Health to address the Anflonz a bird stabilize the situation and the disease infected 22
Feb 18, 2007

Sana, Mustafa wrote: Dr Hatim al-Jabali, minister of health and population Ore Yassin, the Supreme Committee for the stability of avian flu case the child, Mohammad Ahmad Sulayman injured bird influenza, aged >5 years< which addresses Section Sadr inside the hospital Manshiet Bakry. The minister also decided to lift [increase] the state of emergency in different areas of right Yeh nationwide, the rapid analysis Lalla Arusha Almkhalten bird home villages and hamlets nationwide,

Dr. Rahman Shahin Nati Min official of the ministry received a report from the ministry tamping Tour Ibrahim Kardane Media Advisor to the Office Regional of the World Health Organization in the Middle East hardy says that has happened to the avian influenza virus the danger is not, nor does it lead to the transmission of the disease from the injured avian influenza to someone properly. The disease is still transmitted from bird to bird and the j rights of H5N1 infection birds themselves. A report by the organization that is building Altamlfo [Tamiflu] of medicine until now accredited by the World Health Organization. The evolution has happened to the reduced effectiveness of H5N1 Altamlfo about 10% called for the report of the Organization of the Ministry of Health Ba Stmrar public awareness throughout the year and not poison Ahh slaughtering birds by conventional means and that the butchering of during the massacres. The report demanded that the organization is digging to bury the birds Navqh in the area of not less than 2 meters so as not playing by Haio Anat Kalkott and dogs. The ministry also decided to increase the health labs to quickly carry a for analyzes the face of increasing the required samples tested me n Almkhalten citizens of the dead birds. It was also decided to activate the plan to combat avian flu disease Bi n doctors and citizens to increase awareness especially in the pain Be remote and random.

The discovery of a new hotbed of South Qena

Qena pilgrims safety: Qena Governorate authorities announced the discovery of a new hotbed for lease Unza status of the birds Armant southern province and said inquiries Major General Magdi Ayoub Qena governor discovered that the new focus the village of Beni Helba, the Mohameed miles inside the home of Abu Haga c Mr. Mohammed's 15 dead chickens inside, the Commission veterinary medicine execution of 41 chickens, 8 swung into the cemetery and buried the health and immunization and vaccination of birds a the village that the disease appeared among Doajnha and nearby villages e with a distance of 7 km.

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Mutant in Egypt's bird flu virus not increased danger: WHO <!-- END HEADLINE -->
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A mutation in the deadly bird flu virus that has appeared in Egypt has not made the killer disease deadlier despite making it more drug-resistant, said World Health Organisation regional spokesman Ibrahim al-Kerdany.
"A mutation has appeared in the latest cases but it does not present a danger," he said in comment carried by the official MENA news agency, adding that the most important fact is that the disease continues to pass only from birds to humans and not between humans.
He added that Tamiflu, the most common anti-flu medication, is only 10 percent less effective against the mutation.
Since its appearance in Egypt in March 2006, 13 people have died out of 20 infections from the H5N1 virus, including at least two from Gharbiya province that suffered from a more drug resistant mutation.
None of those afflicted in the last few months had recovered, but experts say this was not due to increased virulence of the virus but because of delays in reporting symptoms.
Kerdany also called for raising awareness among women and children, who make up most of the victims, and stated the need for more laboratories to cope with a predicted rise in samples.
Outside Asia, Egypt is the country hardest hit by the virus.