Re: EGYPT - January 6+ General Bird Flu News
Long report on the bf discussion in the (I think) Egyptian Parliament today. A representative from the WHO was there.
Sounds like the plan is to vaccinate all poultry in Egypt, including (esp.) all backyard poultry. There was lots of discussion on exactly how to go about doing that. Compensation for culling was discussed. Also, that awareness of the dangers of the disease must be increased so that people will stop denying that they keep poultry, etc.
Also, something about members of the U.S. CDC and the WHO going to be in Egypt for the next 2 weeks in order to (I'm guessing) assess the situation and do testing(??) especially in Al Menoufiyah and Al Gharbiyah governorates.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Minister of Agriculture: The intensification of efforts to cope with bird flu
Education household - the danger is
Jan 30, 2007
Over four full hours
[in Parliament, I think]. Hot discussions on the issue of bird flu after a full year of emergence in Egypt.
Forum hosted all parties to the case. It reviewed all the efforts that have been made and are still being made to meet this uninvited guest. Also reviewed all the challenges and fears that haunt everyone.
In the first talked Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture of the enormous efforts in the prosecution of the disease. That led to full control in licensed farms. With the persistence of the problem in the household of Education that will be very difficult to control. The vaccination of poultry is the only guarantee that the transfer of the disease to humans. The ministry is currently trying to reach the spawning sources to ensure the vaccination of all poultry in life one day.
He praised Dr. Good human
representative of the World Health Organization full cooperation between the ministers and governors in the implementation of the national plan, which had been consolidated and developed.
He emphasized that the coming days will witness a new phase to assess the Egyptian experience through up from the base of the pyramid through field visits to the provinces most vulnerable to infection, namely Bank of Menoufia, a careful assessment of what was implemented. Dr. Governor of Giza Fathi Saad, a member of the National Committee to combat the disease that the situation in Egypt is good and despite the endemic disease in Egypt, but that under control and evidence that the infection will not exceed fifteen per month, while the center and arrived at the beginning of the emergence of the disease to the 292 center in one week.
Mohamed Barakat opened editor-in-chief of news and facts Forum reference to the issue of avian flu is not new to the Forum has been discussed twice for the significance and gravity of this disease is the wave of heavy landed on Egypt before we can not only sympathize with the people and also to the enormous effort that has been, despite some Maitsourh that there was negligence because the survival of avian influenza so far. And I would imagine that this reaped We are with us today all parties to the case What we hope to be a design popular on the salvation if I may use the expression Understand the causes of this disease Aezoha of behaviors human beings and the lack of understanding the seriousness of leniency with the case and surprised by the deal some with contemptuously severe, which may be a result of inadequate information or the nature of Egyptian Tstshl things Therefore, we will begin with Mr. Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation to us of the fact and extent of the problem in Egypt because, as has often been the rumors and charged the interests of personal and vaccinations and others.
Particular challenges
Started Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation modern by thanking the Forum Akhbar for dialogue, which is attended by for the third time and who is keen everyone to participate it and confirmed that all the Netzarim on the round do not want to hide anything and affirmed that everybody making huge efforts in the confrontation even if he were public opinion deems not sufficient because we in order to reach of this provision about the adequacy of what has been must be made to the nature of governance and the Egyptian people and we part of its nature and priorities and how to deal with the information lightly and preference shorten the ways and actions even rumors that we faced was left behind by personal interests tried to establish a linkage between the steps that we have undertaken, Compensation and it is directed for our purposes. All of this talk leads to a lack of seriousness in confronting the problem. And add that we all know since the entry disease Egypt can us a special status and particular challenges, confronting many of the nations, even those that at the very stage of our growth or less Indeed confirms that we are not alone in the face of this disease The incidence and started in the Southeast Asian countries and then proceeded to Turkey, Europe and Latin in previous years and recently arrived some African countries and their position even now Absent is transparency We
We do not know the position of disease in Nigeria or Sudan and elsewhere and when tasked accompanied President of the Republic of Eritrea in his visit to Sharm el-Sheikh admitted to me satisfactorily avian influenza have the But they did not pay importance because most their dependence on the sources of animal protein of other sheep and cows Baksena in Egypt poultry is the animal protein the first All-spectral depend on them and work with them and infringe the crisis everyone from Alexandria and to Aswan and when we know that 63% of the wealth with in Lower Egypt and the rest is unassessed Central Egypt and the Supreme and Sinai we find that the core of the problem in Lower Egypt and compounding the crisis was that villages convergent and the concentration of the farms high did not Saves position only the awareness of the plantation sector regulator in dealing with the problem and their cooperation with the vaccination and the commitment to safety standards vital The result was not to the emergence of an injury and the one in the commercial sector orderly since the the month of July last.
Domestic poultry
But the problem is that 12% poultry industry exists in houses, when requested from the cabinet's information center information on the families educator for poultry the countryside, explained that there 4.5 million families on raising a CHICKEN did not specify the preparation in the rural and urban Therefore Vmshkltena today are pedagogy household rural because the security sole non-transmission of the disease of the human person is to vaccinate poultry which is soar, the difficulty of its implementation in this sector the large reality affirms
all cases of human casualties in houses except two cases and 100% of the cases who died on the part of the of Education household and all of them were women except one case In this informal sector which there are no accurate statistics, however, difficult to access to the 4.5 million families, we found that the solution in the access of the chicks and vaccinated and here confronted us a new problem namely the labs unloading deployed in the countryside and confined the in 1470 Mfrkha But still the problem existed because there organs of the incubation of small in the houses reach card 200 Egg only is the sans license. Then we go into the maze of other municipal nestling weigh 20 kilograms and 40 kilograms farms, which needs certain organs of the vaccination was the best solution to provide the injection, despite the difficulty of the problem but it is not impossible to control and guide is the rise in the proportion of awareness during the year that has passed since we announced the emergence of the disease in Egypt in February 17 last year.
Offset losses
For Educational household can not prevent it, because it represents a source of income for many families Egyptian simple been able to do as many have to settle the issue and preferred to keep away from the Education household for the prevention of avian influenza and therefore tried and continue to try to reach a source of hatching to ensure vaccination and management more accurately, to reach out to the villages through the mayors and commissions veterinary vaccination and control, we can not say that the disease has is heavy guest seeing its effects, which have been devastating for the industry. At the outset and now almost poultry industry for the production of what she was submitting to the markets before in October 2005 and we have succeeded in compensation losses we faced in the period the price rises, and happened actual decrease in the price of eggs and chickens and import which no longer represents the importance of to the Egyptian market and we want now to ensure that the of Industry for such crisis is once again and the price rises, despite the fact that inputs fodder production of maize and other increasingly rare and which is what we must build it and that the any decline in prices a particular figure will lead to losses industry specific If we succeed in the protection of the family sector through the immunization we will have often have we crossed a substantial stage of prevention for patients why we have prepared a contingency plan from 3 to 5 years results depend on our success in the control of the the household sector as happened with the Commercial and when we evaluate the performance and action system must not flagellate introspection and this does not mean I say that we have achieved all that was required But part thereof not negligible, especially We are a people does not abide instructions and difficult to control of the its conduct as happened in many of the States that succeeded in eliminating the disease.
Denial of the disease
Mohamed Barakat and transports helm of the talk in the direction of the evaluation of the experience of the Egyptian confrontation of the disease neutrality does not accept the tender by the question d. Good human representative of the World Health Organization's global vision for the experiment without courtesies.
D and responded. Humankind affirming that the disease still fodder, moves in the special circumstances of the human person Secondly is an illness of rule of behavior with all the mean meaning of the word and painful details confirm this and the most prominent pose additional problems in the area of maintaining the health of human beings is the denial of infected to the presence of disease and when we tried the search for the reason that and especially that the treatment in the early hours more effective The result was that is apprehension simpletons from the consequences of the emergence of any case is that the first reason of fear of executions all birds the village which means ruining severely in the source of livelihood especially that they informed been for Fezhm in their villages completely Some people have thus imagines that the treatment simple It is possible to be without informing official bodies.
Therefore the awareness is the most important, but with the provision of alternatives, including compensation.
Braced virus
And on the localizable the virus in Egypt confirm the reports of the the Organization that it is localizable already the sense that it exists for a period of over six months, but there are some monitor epidemiol?gica the forces of through the withdrawal of samples continuous in the farms and Education household and statistics avers that the virus has been isolated and there was courageous decisions taken by the Egyptian government the execution of of live birds and the removal of the nests in large cities addition to vaccinated commercial farms and remained the problem of of Education household in the countryside namely vexing and Resolution amend the Behaving in would not be changed overnight and the situation now at the Ministry of Health, is already better, but not a sufficient, was Our problem that every ministries have plans different and we asked NATIONAL PLAN one even do not collide plans and the government responded Egyptian and Strategies were developed this plan and have to say when implementation are concentrated in the cooperation between the ministries and governorates in the performance and increasingly complex problems in the dispersion of performance government between the preserving the food security and industry, the economy and rumors and especially that the disease strikes poultry which constitute 40% of the sources of animal protein for the Egyptians and for the the World Health Organization were the higher the cost because the confrontation in Egypt need to provide medical doctors on the high degree of training in the first line of defense and the Ministry of Health already submitted Extensive training sessions and succeeded in the face of and remedy the shortcomings medical and remained the problem of refraction of disease is to address the larger.
He added. Humankind will begin,
over the coming few days a new stage of assessing experience the Egyptian visits for a period of two weeks from representatives of the Organization of the Center for Disease Control the city of Atlanta of America and with experts from the World Health Organization so as to the beginning of base of the pyramid and not its summit where we will begin with villages and houses, simple to determine the degree of awareness of the may have and the availability of doctors Trainers which is contrary to what we were doing in the previous occasions audited the plans governmental organizations large and therefore
Our starting this time in the two governorates most vulnerable to infection in Bir disease recently, Menoufia, Western [Al Gharbiyah] would be examined and follow-up of all the parties to the case over the three days of each of them and after that we will come back of the plan nationalism and we are sure we Sneraha into new allow us accuracy than in determining the extent adequacy of the current procedures to confront the disease also APPEAR us tens of new questions about the locations of therapies and quantities and medical prescriptions and was set amounts to in the injury and to those who will fly and how is dealing between the different actors involved in the plan, nationalism a spirit the Action Team also need to be emphasized to include action system organizations of civil society the side of governmental efforts because the enthusiasm alone is inadequate and we have complete conviction of that no plan is external any hand we have to interference in the national life.
For the two transmission of the virus from humans to humans in Indonesia must swear experiences dealing with avian influenza for the first groups did not show the injury only in migratory birds, only because these countries, mostly in Europe to have a strong system succeeded in isolating the disease and other countries could awareness sound isolation from rights and the third group arrived in the person and the fourth arrived from person to person on a small scale.
Here intervention Professor Mohamed Barakat, wondering how to make sure that the case of Indonesia has already moved from humans to humans, especially to families around the world simple and may have various means of transmission without awareness.
D and responded. Hassan human, such a point dissected from all the experts and scientists Organization and other international bodies and develop into account this possibility and others were making sure that they human beings to human beings and the transmission of the virus from one person to another in this manner deadly confirms that the virus stupid because the virus smart does not kill all pleasure even left to the same area for the transition from one person to another, but avian influenza virus the tomb with pleasure, although it appeared in more than 80 nations but he settled in the countries least in much of including Egypt.
Our good
She helm dialogue about d. Fatehi Saad Governor of Giza, and member of the Supreme Committee for control of avian influenza commissioned paid to the described scientific as one of the most important experts in the diseases poultry lifelong process as a veterinarian and talked saying: put forward by Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture a compendium of the general situation in Egypt since the emergence of the epidemic in Egypt in the February 17 of last year and the translation of genuine of what happened, but there are some points what has been stated need further elucidation We in a good position approximates is very good from the reality of accurate data were presented transparently all parties and informed the evidence of this that after the four weeks the first in the appearance of disease started curve that less summit had infection in the week, which followed the announcement of the first case the sacrificing the disease and started cases declining model examines It is enough that since June 10 last did not show situations in the Shab'a been reported or displayed watchful positive role being played by the lab the Central for poultry affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture in the farms and houses, and the popular markets and the results exist in d. Mona made with the plant manager and will be sent to the Ministry of Health because there continually open channels with the exception of one case was discovered a few days ago at a farm here and intervention Amin Abaza, referring to the incident and explained it in the farm is not licensed to engage in the activity of non-compliance of the safety standards and other requirements vital to health.
A new breed
Dr. Fatehi Saad A COMMENT Abaza saying poultry farms the disease was under control to a large extent and it remains on the problem of birds rural household although it in general increased the number of Oilfields the positive by the end of last August and the beginning of last September and which was apart from the migration of birds which is not true and the problem in the emergence of a new breed especially to increase the cases with the onset of winter, but not comparable with what happened at the beginning of the emergence of the epidemic [i.e. February 2006] we have had 292 hotbed positive in one week and we have arrived to the situation of each month then what we consider to increase in cases during the winter did not exceed 15 hotbed in the month especially that our definition of hotbed mean gathering birds or an agricultural farm out by an injury and the mostly household purposes rural of some of them in cities because some people did not abide by and when we evaluate the disease Nlkhsh in the explicit wording that the disease exists and the endemic but he been control and addressing which - mouthing is the immunization and control on education household rural has raised Professor Mohamed Barakat an important point at the beginning of the talk: we need for the opinion of people for my assessment of the efforts that have been made and that we should be on the conviction on the popular level
The necessity of overcome any barriers behavioral and the particular interests to combat this imminent threat on everyone and particularly in the 4.5 million families which practices of Education household for poultry in the countryside, a figure which I think it is inaccurate despite the my respect for the source of this census has discussed with the Major General by Abu Bakr Al-Guindi the President of Agency for Mobilization and Statistics recently and assured me that the last census explained that the 45% of the population of Egypt in the countryside or about 30 million inhabitants, more than 20% of whom educators for poultry Therefore, there are the utmost importance of immunization in the labs spawning municipal from the head because the immunization gives immunity till six months, which was appropriate period because the the length of stay poultry does not exceed often than six months up to 24 months in the poultry Bayyadah the sense they need four doses and safety full and if been done in the labs spawning - Baladi would lighten the us the burden of traffic on those of houses and the ministry, provided 30 million doses free of charge from antimalarial drug of avian influenza and a great, a huge been fortification by.
Amin Abaza, and the intervention of saying we hope that international assistance be more than that during the first confront the disease, but there are clear indications that it may increase in the coming period, and so far we have succeeded in immunizing 60% of the rural household birds Education.
Following d. Fathi Saad vision d. Hassan humankind explaining that he was speaking from the viewpoint of the World Health Organization, which that we respect of course and we trust important but when look to the request of the Organization not to immunization before a specific period we find that there negative aspect hidden the embezzled the injury of exist only that there positive aspects of the industry, for that would minimize the transmission infection and reduces from the quantity of the virus rose by 1 to 100 of the quantity in the birds fortified compared to those without fortified and especially if we consider that the disease was transmitted under certain circumstances of human beings and likelihood of infection human the list of when there are, promiscuity of the birds a strong way and when we compare between the kilometers per human casualties and hot we find 269 the injury of mankind around the world died, 163 and thousands and thousands of hotbeds of birds.
The Minister of Agriculture commenting on the partial effects d. But human fears people from reporting infection if it is true must be addressed immediately, which is normal because it is the execution of all birds in the vicinity called only if the birds immune.
http://www.elakhbar.org.eg/issues/17091/0112.html
Edit: Similar (same?) report here:
http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/ahtml/aflu0548.htm
