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EGYPT - Jan 4 - Jan 6, 2008
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Theresa42
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The Egyptian media/some Egyptian authorities might, indeed, be referring to Tamiflu as a vaccine -- to be honest, I haven't really been paying attention to that in the latest news stories. Then again, it could be something getting "lost in translation" with the machine-translators.
If you'd like, I can double-check the translations using the "better" machine-translator (sakhr.com) and an Arabic-English dictionary (lingvozone.com) -- just gimme a link to an article in question.
Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
There've been instances from all sorts of countries in which people -- even health authorities -- refer to Tamiflu as a vaccine, which is obviously very misleading.
The Egyptian media/some Egyptian authorities might, indeed, be referring to Tamiflu as a vaccine -- to be honest, I haven't really been paying attention to that in the latest news stories. Then again, it could be something getting "lost in translation" with the machine-translators.
If you'd like, I can double-check the translations using the "better" machine-translator (sakhr.com) and an Arabic-English dictionary (lingvozone.com) -- just gimme a link to an article in question.
Theresa42
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Doubts about Anti-Bird Flu Vaccine Validity, Suspected Human Infections Increased
By Metwalli Salim, Omar al-Sheikh, Hamdy Qassim, Yasser Shmis, and Abdullah Mostafa 5/1/2008
Ministry of Agriculture sources and a number of agricultural experts and veterinarians unveiled that there are serious doubts about the validity of veterinary vaccines imported by private vaccine and serum companies and used to immunize poultry in Egyptian farms.
They called for tightening control over procedures of import and handling of vaccines through immunization.
The sources confirmed that many of these companies import cheap veterinary vaccines that do not conform to standards for the benefit of what they described as the 'Mafia of Vaccines'.
On the other hand, Dutch media reported that a vaccine against bird flu virus has been developed, noting that extensive tests conducted on the vaccine, which was developed by the British pharmaceutical firm GSK, in the laboratories of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam showed that the vaccine offers protection against not only the H5N1 virus but several other bird flu viruses that occur worldwide.
In terms of the spread of the virus in Egypt, Beni Suef and Sohag fever hospitals yesterday received 16 cases suspected of being infected with bird flu virus, including 9 women and girls and 6 children. Blood samples of the suspected cases were sent to the central labs of the Health Ministry for analysis to verify the infection.
Beheira governor Mohamed Sharawi issued a decree the day before last preventing the entry of birds into the province and imposing a L.E. 500 fine on each poultry-loaded car seized inside or outside the province without permission from the veterinary medicine.
In Menoufiya, Governor Hassan Hamida instructed the municipalities to educate the public through loudspeakers about the dangers of contacting with live birds for the sake of public health.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=88983
Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
Doubts about Anti-Bird Flu Vaccine Validity, Suspected Human Infections Increased
By Metwalli Salim, Omar al-Sheikh, Hamdy Qassim, Yasser Shmis, and Abdullah Mostafa 5/1/2008
Ministry of Agriculture sources and a number of agricultural experts and veterinarians unveiled that there are serious doubts about the validity of veterinary vaccines imported by private vaccine and serum companies and used to immunize poultry in Egyptian farms.
They called for tightening control over procedures of import and handling of vaccines through immunization.
The sources confirmed that many of these companies import cheap veterinary vaccines that do not conform to standards for the benefit of what they described as the 'Mafia of Vaccines'.
On the other hand, Dutch media reported that a vaccine against bird flu virus has been developed, noting that extensive tests conducted on the vaccine, which was developed by the British pharmaceutical firm GSK, in the laboratories of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam showed that the vaccine offers protection against not only the H5N1 virus but several other bird flu viruses that occur worldwide.
In terms of the spread of the virus in Egypt, Beni Suef and Sohag fever hospitals yesterday received 16 cases suspected of being infected with bird flu virus, including 9 women and girls and 6 children. Blood samples of the suspected cases were sent to the central labs of the Health Ministry for analysis to verify the infection.
Beheira governor Mohamed Sharawi issued a decree the day before last preventing the entry of birds into the province and imposing a L.E. 500 fine on each poultry-loaded car seized inside or outside the province without permission from the veterinary medicine.
In Menoufiya, Governor Hassan Hamida instructed the municipalities to educate the public through loudspeakers about the dangers of contacting with live birds for the sake of public health.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=88983
Theresa42
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Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
"Man-on-the-street" interviews with people selling/concealing poultry. Also, a bit about people smuggling poultry between governorates (usually during the night accd'g to the article).
Google-translated from Arabic:
End of the truce between avian influenza and Egyptians
5/1/2008
Darren achieve Farghali, Maha Al-Bahnasawi Wahba Abdel Hamid on Zalat - Hisham Allam
Despite all the warnings by experts from the return of bird flu in Egypt, last week witnessed the largest number of casualties with the beginning of the third winter of endemic in Egypt: 4 Ladies Bsitat Varguen life, and the incidence reached the 44 cases died, including 19.
With hospitals receiving dietary Abbasiyah in the governorates and dozens of suspected infected every day .. the return of bird flu in a ferocious not represent a surprise in itself, because the virus already endemic in Egypt, but statements Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture, which acknowledged the ministry's inaction during the summer months in the virus was the real surprise.
With the onset of winter, returned to the danger threatening the wealth estimated at 17 billion pounds, where 5 million citizens. . Claimed the disease kills First Bdjajat ordinary people and capital position, then I go to harvest laborers .. "Egypt today" [the newspaper] open the file of the return of bird flu, and monitor manifestations of smuggling and trading of live birds, and the absence of control on the market.
Sellers of live birds ignore government warnings and say: "for Oukadna at home .. Imotwa our children from hunger."
In the market Thursday - months markets selling live birds Afterc sellers Chicks and ducks and geese and their Aagafasm sidewalks market, and all of them took place in indifferent warnings [from the Dept of] Health considered by most a mere rumours. The others did not find a source of income other than the sale of these birds living within the market, to spend on their families, which will collapse - as saying if the government decided to declare war on them.
"We constituency with the Chicks and Hsalc us anything" .. This is what Abu Mohamed - chicks popular seller in the market Thursday - as he sleeps with land and municipal Balafrak cage full of living brought him to the market, cage Chicks, which places him directly Abu Mohammed is the source of livelihood of which spent six sons and that the sale is the Chicks The only thing we inherited from the father.
Abu Mohammed says: "I bought one of the Chicks small traders in Banha, after giving me the delivery of the secretariat to do I make value after the sale, but Maxbi in one cage no more than 20 pounds, and our profession is now 'profession risks', we exposed from time to time for inspection campaigns carried out by the Government, which always results in either imprisonment or confiscation Chicks."
Fifty years did not prevent them from carrying cage Chicks over her head for moving between different markets, but today in the market Thursday was sitting in the place in which it is used and put black scarf over the cage Chicks anticipation of the passage of men inspections, hours of terror or spend Khaled was sitting on one of sidewalks call vote, which forced many of the appeal
Saying: "My sweet chicks and breeding Betty" dismayed, right and left for fear that surprises them confiscated Chicks hiding inside the cage to govern so to death a family of 7 members, is the sole breadwinner, especially after her husband suffered stroke in his barred him from working, says Or Jack: "Chicks Mandhash flu and I do not know the government work us like LES."
Umm Khalid cage next to sit or good to the cage full of Etakit small, it may not exceed the gain or good husband in one of those chicks "quarter pounds", but in spite of that insists every morning to go to a market stretched to the ground in front of the cage and wait until begins its customers, who are accustomed to it, in the coming one after the other, say, or good: "case and stand days States and Zubain not like I", although this did not lose my client who, quite trust me,
But I put my hand on my heart, for fear that someone takes chicks, especially I help my husband who works in a factory cloth on the living conditions of Fratbh DD 300 pounds per month, and this sum of the seven Ajkovina and our children. Or add a good saying: "if the government do not work closely Amanana Tcolna any work for if we fail in the House Hnmut us and our children from hunger."
"No need called bird flu, the government Give us Ptharbena in eating our livelihood" .. Thus began Abu Mahmoud - chicken seller - modern When asked him about the fear of bird flu, saying: "twenty years ago and I chicks seller, I am the education on the roof of my house.
Thank God my health, like Jasmine, did not accept while anything which claimed the government, and is also known that the government Ptharbena in our livelihood, although we heard about bird flu since 6 years; did not stop for one day from breeding birds which is the only source of our livelihood, but what is impressed by the customer I let him come Bejav market all heard about new infections."
"If the disease is already likely to my children and I years ago" .. This is confirmed Umm Ahmed One vendors Chicks and ducks market Thursday sitting in front of a cage of chicks and another for Ducklings, where she said: "I live in a simple room my husband and I and my children four, along with some birds that I Nstrozk the education and either selling them or consume, even if bird flu already exist, for you are all birds that we share bed."
"Let in life want to eat live, so live off you, the reason why we got to theft and crime, because Pthrmona of halal job, you sure of the inspection" .. All of those expressions, accusations and sent us one of vendors Once we approach them, they cover cages Chicks Bmlabsaa, fearing the passage of the inspection commission, although our emphasis has several times we "not followed government" but they continued to scream saying "fear of God in us, Henrbi Aina Do."
Poultry producers admit lax in the fight against bird flu .. and the market is witnessing a war rumours after injury farms adult
Winter third of the bird flu in Egypt .. But hit a record in the number and Vyate .. one week claimed the lives of four women, and resumed activity after the deadly virus latency period during the summer as more innocent victims.
New bird flu problem this year is that the injuries were not limited to small producers, many of the big producers proved laboratory tests, virus infection their herds, and birds were secretly .. For their part poultry producers warned of the consequences of failure, which occurred during the last period in the action against the disease, which is recognized by Engineer Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture, and at the same time does not infringe on the responsibility side of the default.
Recognizes Dr. Mohamed El-Shafei, Vice Chairman of the General Federation had been some abuses of educators "who conduct them in a non-disciplined" and at the same time emphasizing that the position is still under control despite the intensity of incidence in a large number of farms in the last period, the spread in geographic scope and scale.
Talk to former Vice President of the Russian reveals an aspect of war rumors, which started two weeks ago as the emergence of injuries in the farms and producers of older companies, which affects their reputations in the market.
These rumors did not avail Shafei, and also recognizes that the emergence of the disease in areas previously vaccinated should prompt the government to reconsider the circulation of vaccine, the method of immunization "because it is clear that some players were not fortifications [vaccinated]."
Despite this show Shafei some unease, and why - from his point of view - that, until this moment, did not prove that the virus may alter, and thus "she is surrounded illness became significant", if activation procedures and preventive precautions are not followed through summer period, and most important of preserving the distances between farms by 500 meters, and the circulation of vaccines properly ..
It also demands that the Vice President of the Federation of producers that govern state control over the purchase and handling of vaccines, and to pass legislation to ensure thorough supervision from the government to import bird flu vaccines, in order to ensure the efficiency of vaccines.
Mr. Dr. Abdel Aziz, Chief of the Division of poultry wealth Cairo Chamber of Commerce and the government refuses to hold sole responsibility for inaction that has occurred, and emphasizes the shared responsibility between the Ministry of Agriculture and producers from returning fierce avian influenza this year.
Abdul Aziz confirms that many small producers are conducting the necessary tests, and finds that they have three reasons pushing them to escape the periodic analysis in the central laboratories of Veterinary Medicine in Cairo, the first of the distance between the governorates-intensive production in the Delta and Port Said and Ismailia, and the factor analysis Cairo, which constitutes a burden on small producers in shouldering the expenses go to Cairo with each cycle of production testing,
The second reason that the cost analysis of up to 500 pounds per farm, and small producers can not afford the result is a direct flight from the analysis, and the last of these reasons is the high Asarvat with low selling prices, which threatens the exit of many small producers from the market.
Eng Mahmoud Anani, a senior poultry producers expected a marked improvement in the coming weeks in the fight against bird flu with the return of the seriousness of the farms and producers Iqbal fortifications necessary to conduct timely assessments.
And because of the high rate of injuries unmatched in the last period to complacency, which occurred after the good performance over the past year in dealing with the crisis, and shows "result of the case reassuring after the summer free of avian influenza infections, wavered this year many farms in immunization procedures, but with escalating crisis again returned commitment to each farm and became interested in immunization and safety vital."
Only the coming days will prove the validity of some optimism imminent decline of the third wave of avian influenza, or mortality rates continued to rise.
Smuggling of poultry are among the second five o'clock .. on the way for a parallel "Egypt - Alexandria agricultural"
The study by the Centre for Information and Decision Support, of the Council of Ministers that, despite the decline of bird flu since the beginning in 2007, the share of Egypt's total cases that occurred in the world this year of about 44%.
The study pointed out that the proportion of families nursemaid bird in rural Egypt about 86%, as these families depend entirely dependent on the purpose of breeding birds as a major source of self-consumption of animal protein and generate additional income, while the rich families, which is a small percentage of raising birds, and therefore the more affected by the bird flu are poor Egypt.
As for the economic damage the study says that the total birds have been culled injury is the result of 34.4 million birds, valued at about 977.3 million pounds.
The largest proportion of losses resulting from the executions of white chickens in the farms, homes and chicken fattening, and decreased exports of poultry from 41.7 million pounds in 2004 to 1.6 million pounds in 2006, a decline that reached about 96%
And poultry prices rose markedly but declined after the drop in the relatively disease, but again rise since January 2007 to date, with an average kilo grams of poultry 8 pounds in 2005 and increased to 12 pounds in 2006 and dropped to 10.5 in March 2007.
Since the emergence of the disease so far issued by the Minister of Agriculture 7 resolutions banning ban the transfer and sale of live birds between provincial and imported from abroad and prevent circulation in the market, and developed requirements and specifications of particular massacres.
As witnessed in 2007 the last draft republican decree on the regulation and sale of poultry, but that so far not shown legislation criminalizes the transfer and sale of live birds during the spread of the disease, which made plantation owners resort to various tricks to smuggle birds.
When I tried "Egypt Today" monitor these trips hidden, we discovered that it is always done at night, and should begin the journey after two o'clock and ending fifth before dawn, a period in which less "ambushes" [random checks or check points] agricultural traffic on the roads, either in the event of non-completion of the long distance flight The driver resort to a village until the following night comes another person in the car owners of limited quantities of fodder to feed poultry.
"Ambushes" traffic on the Cairo-Alexandria agricultural road drivers known to appear .. I at the entrance to the city "attach", and the second bridge before "Berkat", or after the end of a bridge "cows". This, of course, coming to Cairo hand, so some drivers resort to the path parallel to the road agricultural begins with the city "Berkat" and ends after an ambush "attach"; To ensure "payload" be briefed "cages" poultry cell bee, or transfer cars "sand" large covered.
All these difficulties prices rose transport borne by the owners of the farms in an attempt to save what can be saved and exit less losses.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=88923
Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
"Man-on-the-street" interviews with people selling/concealing poultry. Also, a bit about people smuggling poultry between governorates (usually during the night accd'g to the article).
Google-translated from Arabic:
End of the truce between avian influenza and Egyptians
5/1/2008
Darren achieve Farghali, Maha Al-Bahnasawi Wahba Abdel Hamid on Zalat - Hisham Allam
Despite all the warnings by experts from the return of bird flu in Egypt, last week witnessed the largest number of casualties with the beginning of the third winter of endemic in Egypt: 4 Ladies Bsitat Varguen life, and the incidence reached the 44 cases died, including 19.
With hospitals receiving dietary Abbasiyah in the governorates and dozens of suspected infected every day .. the return of bird flu in a ferocious not represent a surprise in itself, because the virus already endemic in Egypt, but statements Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture, which acknowledged the ministry's inaction during the summer months in the virus was the real surprise.
With the onset of winter, returned to the danger threatening the wealth estimated at 17 billion pounds, where 5 million citizens. . Claimed the disease kills First Bdjajat ordinary people and capital position, then I go to harvest laborers .. "Egypt today" [the newspaper] open the file of the return of bird flu, and monitor manifestations of smuggling and trading of live birds, and the absence of control on the market.
Sellers of live birds ignore government warnings and say: "for Oukadna at home .. Imotwa our children from hunger."
In the market Thursday - months markets selling live birds Afterc sellers Chicks and ducks and geese and their Aagafasm sidewalks market, and all of them took place in indifferent warnings [from the Dept of] Health considered by most a mere rumours. The others did not find a source of income other than the sale of these birds living within the market, to spend on their families, which will collapse - as saying if the government decided to declare war on them.
"We constituency with the Chicks and Hsalc us anything" .. This is what Abu Mohamed - chicks popular seller in the market Thursday - as he sleeps with land and municipal Balafrak cage full of living brought him to the market, cage Chicks, which places him directly Abu Mohammed is the source of livelihood of which spent six sons and that the sale is the Chicks The only thing we inherited from the father.
Abu Mohammed says: "I bought one of the Chicks small traders in Banha, after giving me the delivery of the secretariat to do I make value after the sale, but Maxbi in one cage no more than 20 pounds, and our profession is now 'profession risks', we exposed from time to time for inspection campaigns carried out by the Government, which always results in either imprisonment or confiscation Chicks."
Fifty years did not prevent them from carrying cage Chicks over her head for moving between different markets, but today in the market Thursday was sitting in the place in which it is used and put black scarf over the cage Chicks anticipation of the passage of men inspections, hours of terror or spend Khaled was sitting on one of sidewalks call vote, which forced many of the appeal
Saying: "My sweet chicks and breeding Betty" dismayed, right and left for fear that surprises them confiscated Chicks hiding inside the cage to govern so to death a family of 7 members, is the sole breadwinner, especially after her husband suffered stroke in his barred him from working, says Or Jack: "Chicks Mandhash flu and I do not know the government work us like LES."
Umm Khalid cage next to sit or good to the cage full of Etakit small, it may not exceed the gain or good husband in one of those chicks "quarter pounds", but in spite of that insists every morning to go to a market stretched to the ground in front of the cage and wait until begins its customers, who are accustomed to it, in the coming one after the other, say, or good: "case and stand days States and Zubain not like I", although this did not lose my client who, quite trust me,
But I put my hand on my heart, for fear that someone takes chicks, especially I help my husband who works in a factory cloth on the living conditions of Fratbh DD 300 pounds per month, and this sum of the seven Ajkovina and our children. Or add a good saying: "if the government do not work closely Amanana Tcolna any work for if we fail in the House Hnmut us and our children from hunger."
"No need called bird flu, the government Give us Ptharbena in eating our livelihood" .. Thus began Abu Mahmoud - chicken seller - modern When asked him about the fear of bird flu, saying: "twenty years ago and I chicks seller, I am the education on the roof of my house.
Thank God my health, like Jasmine, did not accept while anything which claimed the government, and is also known that the government Ptharbena in our livelihood, although we heard about bird flu since 6 years; did not stop for one day from breeding birds which is the only source of our livelihood, but what is impressed by the customer I let him come Bejav market all heard about new infections."
"If the disease is already likely to my children and I years ago" .. This is confirmed Umm Ahmed One vendors Chicks and ducks market Thursday sitting in front of a cage of chicks and another for Ducklings, where she said: "I live in a simple room my husband and I and my children four, along with some birds that I Nstrozk the education and either selling them or consume, even if bird flu already exist, for you are all birds that we share bed."
"Let in life want to eat live, so live off you, the reason why we got to theft and crime, because Pthrmona of halal job, you sure of the inspection" .. All of those expressions, accusations and sent us one of vendors Once we approach them, they cover cages Chicks Bmlabsaa, fearing the passage of the inspection commission, although our emphasis has several times we "not followed government" but they continued to scream saying "fear of God in us, Henrbi Aina Do."
Poultry producers admit lax in the fight against bird flu .. and the market is witnessing a war rumours after injury farms adult
Winter third of the bird flu in Egypt .. But hit a record in the number and Vyate .. one week claimed the lives of four women, and resumed activity after the deadly virus latency period during the summer as more innocent victims.
New bird flu problem this year is that the injuries were not limited to small producers, many of the big producers proved laboratory tests, virus infection their herds, and birds were secretly .. For their part poultry producers warned of the consequences of failure, which occurred during the last period in the action against the disease, which is recognized by Engineer Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture, and at the same time does not infringe on the responsibility side of the default.
Recognizes Dr. Mohamed El-Shafei, Vice Chairman of the General Federation had been some abuses of educators "who conduct them in a non-disciplined" and at the same time emphasizing that the position is still under control despite the intensity of incidence in a large number of farms in the last period, the spread in geographic scope and scale.
Talk to former Vice President of the Russian reveals an aspect of war rumors, which started two weeks ago as the emergence of injuries in the farms and producers of older companies, which affects their reputations in the market.
These rumors did not avail Shafei, and also recognizes that the emergence of the disease in areas previously vaccinated should prompt the government to reconsider the circulation of vaccine, the method of immunization "because it is clear that some players were not fortifications [vaccinated]."
Despite this show Shafei some unease, and why - from his point of view - that, until this moment, did not prove that the virus may alter, and thus "she is surrounded illness became significant", if activation procedures and preventive precautions are not followed through summer period, and most important of preserving the distances between farms by 500 meters, and the circulation of vaccines properly ..
It also demands that the Vice President of the Federation of producers that govern state control over the purchase and handling of vaccines, and to pass legislation to ensure thorough supervision from the government to import bird flu vaccines, in order to ensure the efficiency of vaccines.
Mr. Dr. Abdel Aziz, Chief of the Division of poultry wealth Cairo Chamber of Commerce and the government refuses to hold sole responsibility for inaction that has occurred, and emphasizes the shared responsibility between the Ministry of Agriculture and producers from returning fierce avian influenza this year.
Abdul Aziz confirms that many small producers are conducting the necessary tests, and finds that they have three reasons pushing them to escape the periodic analysis in the central laboratories of Veterinary Medicine in Cairo, the first of the distance between the governorates-intensive production in the Delta and Port Said and Ismailia, and the factor analysis Cairo, which constitutes a burden on small producers in shouldering the expenses go to Cairo with each cycle of production testing,
The second reason that the cost analysis of up to 500 pounds per farm, and small producers can not afford the result is a direct flight from the analysis, and the last of these reasons is the high Asarvat with low selling prices, which threatens the exit of many small producers from the market.
Eng Mahmoud Anani, a senior poultry producers expected a marked improvement in the coming weeks in the fight against bird flu with the return of the seriousness of the farms and producers Iqbal fortifications necessary to conduct timely assessments.
And because of the high rate of injuries unmatched in the last period to complacency, which occurred after the good performance over the past year in dealing with the crisis, and shows "result of the case reassuring after the summer free of avian influenza infections, wavered this year many farms in immunization procedures, but with escalating crisis again returned commitment to each farm and became interested in immunization and safety vital."
Only the coming days will prove the validity of some optimism imminent decline of the third wave of avian influenza, or mortality rates continued to rise.
Smuggling of poultry are among the second five o'clock .. on the way for a parallel "Egypt - Alexandria agricultural"
The study by the Centre for Information and Decision Support, of the Council of Ministers that, despite the decline of bird flu since the beginning in 2007, the share of Egypt's total cases that occurred in the world this year of about 44%.
The study pointed out that the proportion of families nursemaid bird in rural Egypt about 86%, as these families depend entirely dependent on the purpose of breeding birds as a major source of self-consumption of animal protein and generate additional income, while the rich families, which is a small percentage of raising birds, and therefore the more affected by the bird flu are poor Egypt.
As for the economic damage the study says that the total birds have been culled injury is the result of 34.4 million birds, valued at about 977.3 million pounds.
The largest proportion of losses resulting from the executions of white chickens in the farms, homes and chicken fattening, and decreased exports of poultry from 41.7 million pounds in 2004 to 1.6 million pounds in 2006, a decline that reached about 96%
And poultry prices rose markedly but declined after the drop in the relatively disease, but again rise since January 2007 to date, with an average kilo grams of poultry 8 pounds in 2005 and increased to 12 pounds in 2006 and dropped to 10.5 in March 2007.
Since the emergence of the disease so far issued by the Minister of Agriculture 7 resolutions banning ban the transfer and sale of live birds between provincial and imported from abroad and prevent circulation in the market, and developed requirements and specifications of particular massacres.
As witnessed in 2007 the last draft republican decree on the regulation and sale of poultry, but that so far not shown legislation criminalizes the transfer and sale of live birds during the spread of the disease, which made plantation owners resort to various tricks to smuggle birds.
When I tried "Egypt Today" monitor these trips hidden, we discovered that it is always done at night, and should begin the journey after two o'clock and ending fifth before dawn, a period in which less "ambushes" [random checks or check points] agricultural traffic on the roads, either in the event of non-completion of the long distance flight The driver resort to a village until the following night comes another person in the car owners of limited quantities of fodder to feed poultry.
"Ambushes" traffic on the Cairo-Alexandria agricultural road drivers known to appear .. I at the entrance to the city "attach", and the second bridge before "Berkat", or after the end of a bridge "cows". This, of course, coming to Cairo hand, so some drivers resort to the path parallel to the road agricultural begins with the city "Berkat" and ends after an ambush "attach"; To ensure "payload" be briefed "cages" poultry cell bee, or transfer cars "sand" large covered.
All these difficulties prices rose transport borne by the owners of the farms in an attempt to save what can be saved and exit less losses.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=88923
Theresa42
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Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
Google-translated from Arabic:
Hassan Hamida: ambushes of security at all ports Menoufiya to cope with the march of the virus .. And tighten procedures on farms
Wrote Mitwalli Salem 5/1/2008
The General Hassan Hamida "governor Menoufiya, a member of the Supreme Committee for the control of avian influenza" decides that the deployment of ambushes fixed and mobile [random checks/check points] various outlets maintain with the rest of the neighbouring provinces to meet the Marching bird flu, and to make sure permits transfer and circulation of live birds within Menoufiya and free of the disease.
He said Hamida, told "Egyptian Today" following the end of the Higher Committee meetings to combat the disease, which was held at the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday, it was decided to tighten procedures for veterinary poultry farms and rural education and to make sure immunizations for the various types of birds, pointing out that the formation of a technical committee to follow-up immunization these farms.
He added: Decided to entrust the education of local citizens risk contact birds, in the interest of public health, through the passage of these devices to all the villages of the province to educate its population using loudspeakers, symptoms of the disease and the need for immediate reporting of any cases of suspected infection, and deal with all cases absolute transparency.
The governor of Menoufiya that will be periodic traffic to stores that sell live birds to ascertain the source, with the necessary sampling of birds of unknown origin that is seized to make sure that they are free from disease before slaughter Anflonzataior and poultry abattoir at the earliest, stressing the importance of coordination between the departments of agriculture and veterinary medicine and health and local authorities to take immediate action to contain the disease and curb.
He stressed that the mandate of the concerned departments to prepare a report on the situation of the disease and fight to take quick action to control it, pointing out that it had been decided to declare a state of emergency in various hospitals in the province to receive all cases of suspected infection and rapid transportation to hospitals and specialized pleased sampling and analysis to speed treatment and combating disease.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=88947
Re: EGYPT - Jan 4, 2008+
Google-translated from Arabic:
Hassan Hamida: ambushes of security at all ports Menoufiya to cope with the march of the virus .. And tighten procedures on farms
Wrote Mitwalli Salem 5/1/2008
The General Hassan Hamida "governor Menoufiya, a member of the Supreme Committee for the control of avian influenza" decides that the deployment of ambushes fixed and mobile [random checks/check points] various outlets maintain with the rest of the neighbouring provinces to meet the Marching bird flu, and to make sure permits transfer and circulation of live birds within Menoufiya and free of the disease.
He said Hamida, told "Egyptian Today" following the end of the Higher Committee meetings to combat the disease, which was held at the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday, it was decided to tighten procedures for veterinary poultry farms and rural education and to make sure immunizations for the various types of birds, pointing out that the formation of a technical committee to follow-up immunization these farms.
He added: Decided to entrust the education of local citizens risk contact birds, in the interest of public health, through the passage of these devices to all the villages of the province to educate its population using loudspeakers, symptoms of the disease and the need for immediate reporting of any cases of suspected infection, and deal with all cases absolute transparency.
The governor of Menoufiya that will be periodic traffic to stores that sell live birds to ascertain the source, with the necessary sampling of birds of unknown origin that is seized to make sure that they are free from disease before slaughter Anflonzataior and poultry abattoir at the earliest, stressing the importance of coordination between the departments of agriculture and veterinary medicine and health and local authorities to take immediate action to contain the disease and curb.
He stressed that the mandate of the concerned departments to prepare a report on the situation of the disease and fight to take quick action to control it, pointing out that it had been decided to declare a state of emergency in various hospitals in the province to receive all cases of suspected infection and rapid transportation to hospitals and specialized pleased sampling and analysis to speed treatment and combating disease.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=88947
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Any other papers talking about the above jump in cases in these regions which are more to the south?
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Any other papers talking about the above jump in cases in these regions which are more to the south?
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http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...8.767659,31.376953&spn=7.969458,11.096191&z=6
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The jump in Sohag / Beni Suef is pretty dramatic. Not much activity there previously
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...8.767659,31.376953&spn=7.969458,11.096191&z=6
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Commentary at
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/01050801/H5N1_Egypt_Spread_South.html
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Commentary at
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/01050801/H5N1_Egypt_Spread_South.html
AlaskaDenise
In Memoriam
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Jump in Suspect H5N1 Cases in Southern Egypt
Recombinomics Commentary 11:38
January 5, 2008
In terms of the spread of the virus in Egypt, Beni Suef and Sohag fever hospitals yesterday received 16 cases suspected of being infected with bird flu virus, including 9 women and girls and 6 children. Blood samples of the suspected cases were sent to the central labs of the Health Ministry for analysis to verify the infection.
The above translation describes a dramatic jump in hospital admissions in southern regions. Although the first confirmed case of the season was in Beni Suef, and confirmed cases were reported there a year ago, the recent admissions in the southern cities has been limited (see satellite map). These new additions represent a trend of daily increases in admissions.
However, there have been no announcements of new confirmed cases in the past week. A small number of earlier admissions has been declared negative, but further information on the earlier cases has not been cited in local media.
More information on test results from these hospitalized suspect bird flu cases would be useful.
.
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Commentary
Jump in Suspect H5N1 Cases in Southern Egypt
Recombinomics Commentary 11:38
January 5, 2008
In terms of the spread of the virus in Egypt, Beni Suef and Sohag fever hospitals yesterday received 16 cases suspected of being infected with bird flu virus, including 9 women and girls and 6 children. Blood samples of the suspected cases were sent to the central labs of the Health Ministry for analysis to verify the infection.
The above translation describes a dramatic jump in hospital admissions in southern regions. Although the first confirmed case of the season was in Beni Suef, and confirmed cases were reported there a year ago, the recent admissions in the southern cities has been limited (see satellite map). These new additions represent a trend of daily increases in admissions.
However, there have been no announcements of new confirmed cases in the past week. A small number of earlier admissions has been declared negative, but further information on the earlier cases has not been cited in local media.
More information on test results from these hospitalized suspect bird flu cases would be useful.
.
Treyfish
Moderator
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:tiphat: Rikk:tiphat: Egypt: Bird flu threatens pig farms
04/01/2008 CAIRO - Qabas:
"Egyptian Minister of Health Dr. Hatem mountain there is a stockpile of strategic real estate 'Altamflo' special treatment of disease birds, pointing to the dangers of inaction in the face of this disease and the need to work on the discovery Alambkrellhalat to provide treatment to them. The director of infectious diseases Kelmhamam symposium on the new developments in the treatment of avian influenza, said the number of casualties since the emergence of the disease in Egypt in March 2006 amounted to 43 cases of which 19 died and the case fatality rates of human infections in Egypt less than world rates, which amounted to 62% and ceased in Egypt, where 44 per cent only.
The Ministry of Health in the follow-up pig pens after the arrival of warnings from the World Health Organization about the spread of swine flu virus. Estimates indicate the presence of the pig pens with about 300 thousand pigs in the governorates of Cairo, Dakahliya, Assiut. She warnings WHO that pigs can receive avian influenza and human influenza occurs between cohesion within pig viruses could result in the most serious virus is able to invade the human body easily. "
http://tinyurl.com/2xlzpy
* Swine are reserved for non-Muslim western tourists.
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:tiphat: Rikk:tiphat: Egypt: Bird flu threatens pig farms
04/01/2008 CAIRO - Qabas:
"Egyptian Minister of Health Dr. Hatem mountain there is a stockpile of strategic real estate 'Altamflo' special treatment of disease birds, pointing to the dangers of inaction in the face of this disease and the need to work on the discovery Alambkrellhalat to provide treatment to them. The director of infectious diseases Kelmhamam symposium on the new developments in the treatment of avian influenza, said the number of casualties since the emergence of the disease in Egypt in March 2006 amounted to 43 cases of which 19 died and the case fatality rates of human infections in Egypt less than world rates, which amounted to 62% and ceased in Egypt, where 44 per cent only.
The Ministry of Health in the follow-up pig pens after the arrival of warnings from the World Health Organization about the spread of swine flu virus. Estimates indicate the presence of the pig pens with about 300 thousand pigs in the governorates of Cairo, Dakahliya, Assiut. She warnings WHO that pigs can receive avian influenza and human influenza occurs between cohesion within pig viruses could result in the most serious virus is able to invade the human body easily. "
http://tinyurl.com/2xlzpy
* Swine are reserved for non-Muslim western tourists.
Treyfish
Moderator
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:tiphat: K from Mi:tiphat: Saturday 5 2008 | 14:51 Beirut RSS Feed
Investigations
Health: No bird flu in Lebanon, but the threat seriously
B yen. The Ndorf, Saturday 5 2008
He Director General of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Walid Ammar that "fear of the arrival of the avian influenza virus exists in Lebanon, especially after the detection of some cases in neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in Haifa," but he assured that "Lebanon free even at this epidemic", calling citizens to "attention and report any suspect in the case."
He Ammar in an interview with the site "Lebanon now," that "the topic is troubling and serious and real threat," and added, "We are talking about the issue two years ago but the fear still exists and therefore we ministry work in accordance with the national plan without talking about it, not to worry citizens and add the concerns are new. "
Ammar pointed to the presence of "several steps works by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, which has always warned citizens who have poultry from mixing the chicken with wild birds." He added, "has already prevented fishing is still banned but the fishermen do not adhere to the laws, they do not have this constant hobby, so called bird pass safely, for it even if they are infected will not transmitted infections us if flying in our skies."
And the practical steps implemented by the Ministry of Health Ammar said: "We have built a system of surveillance and epidemiological terms for any situation when reveal and give meaning to medicine, and deliverance government hospitals to be ready for diagnosis and treatment in the event of outbreak of the epidemic, we have prepared necessary medicines. Further pursue the topic daily To this end organize training courses even private hospitals to prepare to deal with these cases in the event of an epidemic. "
Ammar, who spoke about the importance of the role of the media in educating citizens and inform them of the minimum information on the virus, advised the Lebanese "not to get close to any strange (ill) bird and not shoot because of the seriousness of the matter if the infected bird." He also called on citizens to "protect the birds to protect ourselves, although we have not yet reached the stage of transmission of the virus to humans is epidemic because it has not yet obtained genetic change allowing the virus to move to rights like any other disease."
Ammar added, "Every citizen has the birds must keep cages inside sealed so as not to be able to participate strange bird food with local bird."
In any case of suspected dying unusually conjunction with the illness of one bird owners, appealed Ammar citizens reported to the Ministry of Health to do its work and relate to the Ministry of Agriculture to inspect poultry dead, pointing out that this will happen from time to time, "but thank God, even pm Lebanon free of avian influenza. "
Ammar, assured that "all doctors districts aware seriousness of the issue and we have control of epidemics in various Lebanese areas." He said: "For some time now, for example Achtbihna person in northern Lebanon handed to a hospital in Beirut and Akhaddanah screened to the epidemiological investigation conducted in full, especially since this person had a high temperature and had a dead birds, but the tests showed that he was not suffering from anything serious."
http://www.nowlebanon.com/Arabic/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=25613
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:tiphat: K from Mi:tiphat: Saturday 5 2008 | 14:51 Beirut RSS Feed
Investigations
Health: No bird flu in Lebanon, but the threat seriously
B yen. The Ndorf, Saturday 5 2008
He Director General of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Walid Ammar that "fear of the arrival of the avian influenza virus exists in Lebanon, especially after the detection of some cases in neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in Haifa," but he assured that "Lebanon free even at this epidemic", calling citizens to "attention and report any suspect in the case."
He Ammar in an interview with the site "Lebanon now," that "the topic is troubling and serious and real threat," and added, "We are talking about the issue two years ago but the fear still exists and therefore we ministry work in accordance with the national plan without talking about it, not to worry citizens and add the concerns are new. "
Ammar pointed to the presence of "several steps works by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, which has always warned citizens who have poultry from mixing the chicken with wild birds." He added, "has already prevented fishing is still banned but the fishermen do not adhere to the laws, they do not have this constant hobby, so called bird pass safely, for it even if they are infected will not transmitted infections us if flying in our skies."
And the practical steps implemented by the Ministry of Health Ammar said: "We have built a system of surveillance and epidemiological terms for any situation when reveal and give meaning to medicine, and deliverance government hospitals to be ready for diagnosis and treatment in the event of outbreak of the epidemic, we have prepared necessary medicines. Further pursue the topic daily To this end organize training courses even private hospitals to prepare to deal with these cases in the event of an epidemic. "
Ammar, who spoke about the importance of the role of the media in educating citizens and inform them of the minimum information on the virus, advised the Lebanese "not to get close to any strange (ill) bird and not shoot because of the seriousness of the matter if the infected bird." He also called on citizens to "protect the birds to protect ourselves, although we have not yet reached the stage of transmission of the virus to humans is epidemic because it has not yet obtained genetic change allowing the virus to move to rights like any other disease."
Ammar added, "Every citizen has the birds must keep cages inside sealed so as not to be able to participate strange bird food with local bird."
In any case of suspected dying unusually conjunction with the illness of one bird owners, appealed Ammar citizens reported to the Ministry of Health to do its work and relate to the Ministry of Agriculture to inspect poultry dead, pointing out that this will happen from time to time, "but thank God, even pm Lebanon free of avian influenza. "
Ammar, assured that "all doctors districts aware seriousness of the issue and we have control of epidemics in various Lebanese areas." He said: "For some time now, for example Achtbihna person in northern Lebanon handed to a hospital in Beirut and Akhaddanah screened to the epidemiological investigation conducted in full, especially since this person had a high temperature and had a dead birds, but the tests showed that he was not suffering from anything serious."
http://www.nowlebanon.com/Arabic/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=25613
Treyfish
Moderator
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EGYPT: No bird flu pandemic despite recent deaths - health officials
<TABLE style="BORDER-RIGHT: #bbbbbb 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; MARGIN: 2px 5px 8px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; WIDTH: 120px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #bbbbbb 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-TOP: 3px" align=right>
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=ImgCreditCaption style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Poultry sellers in Seyede Zeinab market in old Cairo, Egypt. Avian influenza viruses occur naturally among birds but can be passed to humans through close contact with infected birds.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>DUBAI, 3 January 2008 (IRIN) - Four humans have died of bird flu in Egypt in the past week but health officials deny the country is gripped by an influenza pandemic.
?There is still no fear that the virus has transformed into an influenza pandemic,? John Jabbour, a medical consultant for emerging diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, told IRIN.
Sixteen other suspected cases were admitted to hospital on 2 January, according to Amany Nakhla, the regional planning assistant for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regional office, in Cairo.
According to media reports, the H5N1 strain has been detected among poultry in the Nile Delta, especially those reared in homesteads.
All four deaths in the past week were of women from the Nile Delta region and they brought to 19 the number of people who have died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu since avian flu was first detected in Egypt in 2006. Three of the four women were infected by domestic birds in their homes. The fourth was a poultry seller.
The WHO has said some of those who died having contracted the H5N1 virus strain showed moderate resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug.
Before their deaths the last reported case of a human death from bird flu was in June 2007. ?Avian flu is a behavioural disease and as a long time has passed since it [last] appeared in the country, people went back to their previous habits of raising poultry inside their homes because it is the only source of income for many of them,? Jabbour said.
Precautionary measures
Egypt has taken extensive precautionary measures against bird flu since it appeared in the country in 2006. ?We formed a higher committee to combat bird flu which convenes every month... The committee includes representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the different provinces and security forces,? Abdel Ghaffar Abdel Nasser, head of the disease surveillance unit at the Ministry of Health, told IRIN.
?We reached an advanced stage in our global pandemic plan on the national level, too, and we are working now at the provincial and hospital level. This plan focuses on defining the responsibilities of each party in case the disease becomes a global pandemic,? Adel Nasser noted.
?The awareness campaigns we conducted were very fruitful. For example, all the cases among children reported last year were cured. Mothers immediately took their children to hospital once they suspected that they [the children] had some bird flu symptoms,? he said.
?What we noticed recently is that people are becoming lazy in reporting the death of their poultry or the appearance of symptoms? Many of those who go to hospital after the appearance of bird flu symptoms still lie to doctors when asked if they raise poultry at home,? he said.
Transportation of birds
The government has said that the large number of people who keep poultry at home makes it difficult to eradicate the disease. Because of this the government declared an emergency in the Delta region in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus. It has also warned that it will take strong measures against farms that do not follow the rules for raising poultry.
The government also banned the transport of birds from one province to another without permission. ?Before moving the birds, dealers should inform the veterinary medicine unit which in turn will take some samples of the birds and send them to the laboratory for testing. Permission is issued if the results are negative,? said Saber Abdel Aziz, head of the general directorate of poultry epidemics and diseases at the Ministry of Agriculture.
The vehicles that transport live poultry are stopped for inspection at different checkpoints throughout the country. ?There are at least 100 checkpoints in every province and security forces and veterinary specialists are available in three shifts,? he added.
Abdel Aziz said the ministry had increased its budget for vaccinations this year. ?We are planning to give 200 million vaccination doses this year compared to 150 million last year.?
In the second phase of its vaccination campaign, which stared on 15 December and which will end on 15 March, the ministry aims to vaccinate 85 million domestic birds.
?The vaccines are free of charge for domestically-bred birds,? Abdul Aziz said. The first phase of the campaign, which started in June and ended in December 2007, targeted 76 million birds in all. :tiphat:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76083
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EGYPT: No bird flu pandemic despite recent deaths - health officials
<TABLE style="BORDER-RIGHT: #bbbbbb 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; MARGIN: 2px 5px 8px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; WIDTH: 120px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #bbbbbb 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-TOP: 3px" align=right>
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=ImgCreditCaption style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Poultry sellers in Seyede Zeinab market in old Cairo, Egypt. Avian influenza viruses occur naturally among birds but can be passed to humans through close contact with infected birds.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>DUBAI, 3 January 2008 (IRIN) - Four humans have died of bird flu in Egypt in the past week but health officials deny the country is gripped by an influenza pandemic. ?There is still no fear that the virus has transformed into an influenza pandemic,? John Jabbour, a medical consultant for emerging diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, told IRIN.
Sixteen other suspected cases were admitted to hospital on 2 January, according to Amany Nakhla, the regional planning assistant for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regional office, in Cairo.
According to media reports, the H5N1 strain has been detected among poultry in the Nile Delta, especially those reared in homesteads.
All four deaths in the past week were of women from the Nile Delta region and they brought to 19 the number of people who have died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu since avian flu was first detected in Egypt in 2006. Three of the four women were infected by domestic birds in their homes. The fourth was a poultry seller.
The WHO has said some of those who died having contracted the H5N1 virus strain showed moderate resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug.
Before their deaths the last reported case of a human death from bird flu was in June 2007. ?Avian flu is a behavioural disease and as a long time has passed since it [last] appeared in the country, people went back to their previous habits of raising poultry inside their homes because it is the only source of income for many of them,? Jabbour said.
Precautionary measures
Egypt has taken extensive precautionary measures against bird flu since it appeared in the country in 2006. ?We formed a higher committee to combat bird flu which convenes every month... The committee includes representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the different provinces and security forces,? Abdel Ghaffar Abdel Nasser, head of the disease surveillance unit at the Ministry of Health, told IRIN.
?We reached an advanced stage in our global pandemic plan on the national level, too, and we are working now at the provincial and hospital level. This plan focuses on defining the responsibilities of each party in case the disease becomes a global pandemic,? Adel Nasser noted.
?The awareness campaigns we conducted were very fruitful. For example, all the cases among children reported last year were cured. Mothers immediately took their children to hospital once they suspected that they [the children] had some bird flu symptoms,? he said.
?What we noticed recently is that people are becoming lazy in reporting the death of their poultry or the appearance of symptoms? Many of those who go to hospital after the appearance of bird flu symptoms still lie to doctors when asked if they raise poultry at home,? he said.
Transportation of birds
The government has said that the large number of people who keep poultry at home makes it difficult to eradicate the disease. Because of this the government declared an emergency in the Delta region in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus. It has also warned that it will take strong measures against farms that do not follow the rules for raising poultry.
The government also banned the transport of birds from one province to another without permission. ?Before moving the birds, dealers should inform the veterinary medicine unit which in turn will take some samples of the birds and send them to the laboratory for testing. Permission is issued if the results are negative,? said Saber Abdel Aziz, head of the general directorate of poultry epidemics and diseases at the Ministry of Agriculture.
The vehicles that transport live poultry are stopped for inspection at different checkpoints throughout the country. ?There are at least 100 checkpoints in every province and security forces and veterinary specialists are available in three shifts,? he added.
Abdel Aziz said the ministry had increased its budget for vaccinations this year. ?We are planning to give 200 million vaccination doses this year compared to 150 million last year.?
In the second phase of its vaccination campaign, which stared on 15 December and which will end on 15 March, the ministry aims to vaccinate 85 million domestic birds.
?The vaccines are free of charge for domestically-bred birds,? Abdul Aziz said. The first phase of the campaign, which started in June and ended in December 2007, targeted 76 million birds in all. :tiphat:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76083
Theresa42
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Not a peep, as far as I have seen. Hopefully there'll be some better reporting of these cases tomorrow (i.e some names), but I have a feeling they'll get "forgotten" over the weekend.
Theresa42
Well-known member
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Here's a mention of 2 new suspected cases from Sohag. Also, one from Beheira -- could be one of the unnamed ones from Beheira we heard about yesterday. (Fourth story on page.)
Google-translated from Arabic:
3 goals avian influenza in the lake [Beheira] and Sohag
Jan 5, 2008
Three cases have been detained on suspicion of being infected with avian influenza and Sohag governorates of the lake [Beheira].
Karem Guentoc - lake [Beheira]:
Detained Hospital Dietetic Alexandria couple Mohamed Fathalla "50 years" homemaker Rashid on suspicion of the safety of avian influenza virus because Mkhalttha bird Bmenzlha. After her sudden rise in temperature, red face and narrow throat. Samples have been taken and bird contact, and sent to the central factor.
Sohag - Huda Hosni:
Two were detained Daryll disease avian influenza virus Hospital Sohag two Hanan Farouk Abodev 25 years of village children Aizaz, status Sohag, and Hanan Mohammed Khalaf 22 years from the village Aljbab, status surged .. Samples were taken from patients and sent to labs central Cairo.
The Commission to maintain the destruction of all birds in the homes of patients who developed by the cases.
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/local/detail09.asp [<< not a permalink]
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Here's a mention of 2 new suspected cases from Sohag. Also, one from Beheira -- could be one of the unnamed ones from Beheira we heard about yesterday. (Fourth story on page.)
Google-translated from Arabic:
3 goals avian influenza in the lake [Beheira] and Sohag
Jan 5, 2008
Three cases have been detained on suspicion of being infected with avian influenza and Sohag governorates of the lake [Beheira].
Karem Guentoc - lake [Beheira]:
Detained Hospital Dietetic Alexandria couple Mohamed Fathalla "50 years" homemaker Rashid on suspicion of the safety of avian influenza virus because Mkhalttha bird Bmenzlha. After her sudden rise in temperature, red face and narrow throat. Samples have been taken and bird contact, and sent to the central factor.
Sohag - Huda Hosni:
Two were detained Daryll disease avian influenza virus Hospital Sohag two Hanan Farouk Abodev 25 years of village children Aizaz, status Sohag, and Hanan Mohammed Khalaf 22 years from the village Aljbab, status surged .. Samples were taken from patients and sent to labs central Cairo.
The Commission to maintain the destruction of all birds in the homes of patients who developed by the cases.
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/local/detail09.asp [<< not a permalink]
Theresa42
Well-known member
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Terrific. Somebody trying to smuggle dead chickens into a feed factory (whatever that is) -- and the chickens turned out to have bf. Thankfully these folks got caught.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Before smuggling to feed factory
Seizure of 4 thousands of dead chickens infected with avian influenza in Ismailia
Jan 5, 2007
Ismailia - Magdi soldier:
Been thwarted an attempt to smuggle four thousand chickens dead of a feed factories in Ismailia found to be infected with avian influenza disease.
The governor Ltd. Fakhrani has given directives control the entrances and exits to maintain control of the car and loaded fugitive quantities of live poultry infected with avian influenza.
Those campaigns resulted in the seizure of the car No. 55754 transfer Dakahlia governorate on board, about four thousand chickens were dead on the way to one of feed factories in Ismailia of recycling.
And to medically examine dead poultry by veterinary supervision of Dr Ismail Shmud director general of veterinary medicine show her avian influenza has been disposed of the quantity seized in a cemetery burials health compatible with the specifications and conditions of the environment and liberated the record No. 351 offences against the commander of the hill great car.
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/accedents/detail03.asp [<< not a permalink]
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Terrific. Somebody trying to smuggle dead chickens into a feed factory (whatever that is) -- and the chickens turned out to have bf. Thankfully these folks got caught.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Before smuggling to feed factory
Seizure of 4 thousands of dead chickens infected with avian influenza in Ismailia
Jan 5, 2007
Ismailia - Magdi soldier:
Been thwarted an attempt to smuggle four thousand chickens dead of a feed factories in Ismailia found to be infected with avian influenza disease.
The governor Ltd. Fakhrani has given directives control the entrances and exits to maintain control of the car and loaded fugitive quantities of live poultry infected with avian influenza.
Those campaigns resulted in the seizure of the car No. 55754 transfer Dakahlia governorate on board, about four thousand chickens were dead on the way to one of feed factories in Ismailia of recycling.
And to medically examine dead poultry by veterinary supervision of Dr Ismail Shmud director general of veterinary medicine show her avian influenza has been disposed of the quantity seized in a cemetery burials health compatible with the specifications and conditions of the environment and liberated the record No. 351 offences against the commander of the hill great car.
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/accedents/detail03.asp [<< not a permalink]
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Updated map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=e...0296685271.000442accf347f22ad5d4&t=h&z=6&om=0
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Updated map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=e...0296685271.000442accf347f22ad5d4&t=h&z=6&om=0
Giuseppe
Emeritus
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Avian-to-human transmission may result after contact with animals (symptomatic or not but seeding viruses).
Presence of animals in houses, bedrooms, kitchens, slaughtering without subsequent handwashing, utilization of manure, contaminated surfaces, feeding other animals with faeces and more other.
In this light avian influenza in human can be classified as a 'behavioral disease'.
Other, a pandemic influenza virus, that transmits human-to-human at rapid pace, with no respect to health, wealth status.
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Avian-to-human transmission may result after contact with animals (symptomatic or not but seeding viruses).
Presence of animals in houses, bedrooms, kitchens, slaughtering without subsequent handwashing, utilization of manure, contaminated surfaces, feeding other animals with faeces and more other.
In this light avian influenza in human can be classified as a 'behavioral disease'.
Other, a pandemic influenza virus, that transmits human-to-human at rapid pace, with no respect to health, wealth status.
- Status