Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection - birds

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Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

A new infection of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus among domestic fowls has been discovered in Egypt, the official news agency MENA reported Saturday.
The Health Ministry said that new infection was discovered in Luxor, some 680 km south of Cairo. Tests on domestic birds at the city's Najaa al-Abayda Lab turned up positive for the H5N1 virus, said the ministry's spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin.
The area has been quarantined and the birds were being culled, he said.
On Oct 30, an Egyptian woman died of bird flu virus and became the country's seventh fatal human case of the disease.
Egypt reported the first human bird flu case March 18. Since then, it has detected 14 human cases with the last case reported on May 18. Of the 14, six died while the rest recovered.
- By Xinhua


http://www.indiaenews.com/middle-east/20061111/28374.htm

 

[Sharpe]

Re: Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection - birds

Luxor is where a woman died of bird flu in May.

Avian, case suspicion in Egypt
May 25, 2006

Perhaps an other human case of contagio

A woman Egyptian ricoverata in hospital could have been contagiata from virus the H5N1 of the avian infuence. The number of the persons infected in Egypt would salt therefore to 15, six di.le which is passed away. Atiyat Mohamed, 48 years, original a near country Luxor, has been ricoverata endured after the appearance of the first symptoms of the disease. They are in course the tests in order to verify if features of virus the H5N1.

http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/mondo/...olo311224.shtml

 

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection - birds

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The Ministry of Health: The discovery of a new site for the birds of avian influenza infection in Luxor
Nov 11, 2006

Today the discovery of a positive new site took place by the bird flu In Luxor city to house birds ..And the confirmation of the analyses positivity in the central laboratory to the censorship the veterinary is on the domestic production in the Ministry of Agriculture. He stated that doctor Abdul Rahman Shahin the spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population and said The new focus was discovered in "a tribal Al Znia" Ababdeh** hamlet [of] Luxor city to chicken and ducks and geese and the Ministry of Health groups, the veterinary services and the police carry out the execution of all birds the present is in this injured focus.

http://www.alwafd.org/v2/News/news_description.php?news_id=190

**Ababdeh people - nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Aswan in Egypt.