Re: EGYPT - Poultry H5N1 Outbreaks in Al Minufiyah & Al Qalyubia + OIE Map
Re: EGYPT - Poultry H5N1 Outbreaks in Al Minufiyah & Al Qalyubia + OIE Map
Outbreak in poultry also in Qena governorate.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Avian influenza attack over Egypt in the holidays and they reveal government statements
Dec 29, 2007
Avian influenza attacked more than 8 Egyptian governorates during the Eid al-Adha as appeared several hotbeds infected with H5N1 in the governorates of Menoufiya, East [Ash Sharqiyah] and West [Al Gharbiyah], Qaliubiya, Beni Suef, Qena, Cairo, was the surprise that these cases emerged in the farm, which claimed officials with the Ministry of Agriculture said that it had no hope of avian influenza in return Other farms, but the days have proved that the officials of agriculture, like the rest of the officials in the Egyptian government statements love without achieving concrete results and returned risk of avian influenza again.
And the seriousness of the problem, said Dr. Mona Mehrez President of the National Laboratory of the control of poultry production that the risk of avian influenza virus is still present it is possible to return the same force that it was in the beginning appear especially Egyptian media no longer play the role required of it in an optimal manner, which prompted citizens to forget the seriousness of the disease despite the material and human losses caused to them.
She described Dr Mona Mehrez Egyptian people, the good people forget so quickly if it was to the detriment of their health Accused plantation owners default because they did not play a vital security measures to counter the disease.
And / Mona Mehrez on areas exposed to the virus in several provinces, as follows:
* The discovery of the injury for 30 chickens village comprising Alanaguib Bahmon Menoufiya Governorate.
* Wounding more than 20 chickens REMY status Bio Eastern [Ash Sharqiyah] Province.
* Injury farm village organised Bakry Qaliubia governorate.
* As well as several provinces of Beni Suef hotbeds, Cairo and Qena.
And demanded d / Mona Mehrez media that the role required to fully - and the need to educate citizens, as provided several tips to follow to tackle the disease, namely:
* Educational need domestic birds in places closed to prevent mixing with wild birds and migratory.
* Non-disposal of dead birds shifting in the street or in the water bodies even going to infection
For the commercial sector
* Upgrading safety vital farm
* A good cleansing programme and continuing prior to the beginning and end of the session, as well as follow-up laboratory good
For his part, admitted Dr. Hamid Samaha Chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services that the Commission did not complete the tasks to vaccinate all poultry farms had been vaccinated only 60% of the farms [and that's not counting backyard poultry - T42] As for the rest of the farms have not been vaccinated, pointing out that the Commission has provided more than 75 million worshippers to begin the second phase of vaccination that this particular phase of the most important stages, because the virus is active in the winter.
For its part, Cairo Governorate declared a state of maximum emergency to cope with bird flu and to siege There is a case for maintaining domestic birds, and immediately issued Abdel Azim Wazir Cairo governor need to close all its stores of live birds in order to face the disease, stressing the importance of tightening control over the entrances Cairo to prevent the entry of live birds from neighboring governorates of Cairo.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health had announced that recent tests proved injuring two people infected H5N1 that causes avian influenza.
Amr said Qandil Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Health: "There were two cases in the province of Damietta first and second in the province of Menoufiya, laboratory results confirmed today they reportedly avian influenza."
He added that Qandil LIFT number of new cases of human bird flu infections in Egypt to 41.
She died last Wednesday Ola Younis 25 years affected by avian influenza disease in the province of Beni Suef south of Cairo on the same day that it was her illness diagnosed as infected with severe infection.
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