Egypt reports new human bird flu case

[DB]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/18/content_4563680.htm
Egypt reports new human bird flu case

CAIRO, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian health authorities announced a new human bird flu case in a central Egyptian governorate, the official MENA news agency reported on Wednesday.

Health Ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin was quoted as saying that a 75-year-old woman from the governo<!--ADV_CONTENT-->rate of Minya,some 220 km south of Cairo, contracted the deadly H5N1 strain ofbird flu virus due to direct contact with backyard poultry.The woman was hospitalized on May 12 and has been treated with anti-viral Tamiflu drug, said the spokesman.

It was the 14th human case since the outbreak of the deadly disease in Egypt in March, he said.

Out of the 13 cases reported before the new case, five have died and the other eight have recovered.

Egypt reported its first human bird flu case on March 18 after the country found its first outbreak in poultry on Feb. 17.

The Egyptian government has since taken tough measures to curb the spread of the fatal disease, which has killed over 100 people world wide since its latest outbreak in southeast Asia in late 2003.

Most victims were infected after close contact with sick birds.The virus currently can only jump from birds to humans, butscientists fear that it could mutate into a form capable ofpassing easily among humans and thus spark a global pandemic.

 

[Goju]

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Gee thanks DB... always can count on you for icing on the cake - how old? 79?
Is she the oldest to be infected?

Age doesn't protect you?
gesh

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Gee thanks DB... always can count on you for icing on the cake - how old? 79?
Is she the oldest to be infected?

Age doesn't protect you?
gesh

Goju she is 75 not 79

 

[Goju]

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75 - 79 whats the difference - she's **** old for H5N1!
Hope she survives

 

[Laidback Al]

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I believe the oldest previously reported WHO case was a 69 year old man from Viet Nam in 2005.

 

[Sally Furniss]

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75 - 79 whats the difference - she's **** old for H5N1!
Hope she survives

Goju the differnce is. It's hard to keep good records if people don't take the care to report carefully.

 

[Theresa42]

Al Minya governorate

Al Minya governorate

Haven't had any human H5N1 cases from Al Minya before -- although there was (at least) one suspected case back in March.

There have, however, been several outbreaks of H5N1 confirmed in poultry in Al Minya.

Al Minya is south of Cairo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Minya

 

[DB]

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Sixth Egyptian dies of bird flu

A 75-year-old woman died of bird flu in Egypt on Thursday, the sixth death caused by the disease, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said.

John Jabbour said the woman was from Minya in southern Egypt.

She had been in contact with infected poultry, he said, quoting information provided by the Egyptian authorities.

Jabbour said the case had been reported too late for the antiviral Tamiflu treatment to have any effect.

Infected people need to receive Tamiflu within two days of the appearance of bird flu symptoms, he said.

"This is what is going on in Egypt. Contact with infected poultry and late reporting of symptoms," Jabbour said.

The WHO has confirmed that 13 people have been infected with bird flu in Egypt.

Eight of those infected have fully recovered.

The United Nations' chief bird flu expert this week praised Egypt's response to bird flu.

Surveillance of bird flu had helped to keep the human case mortality rate very low, he said.

Egypt's first human bird flu infection was reported in mid-March.

 

[hawkeye]

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"This is what is going on in Egypt. Contact with infected poultry and late reporting of symptoms," Jabbour said.

Exactly HOW MUCH of this is going on?

 

[Mingus]

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Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 8



18 May 2006

The Ministry of Health in Egypt has confirmed the country's 14th case of
human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case occurred
in a 75-year-old woman from the Al Minya governorate. She developed
symptoms on 11 May and died on 18 May.

As with all other cases in Egypt, her infection has been linked to
exposure to diseased birds.

Of the 14 cases in Egypt, six have been fatal.

 

[Theresa42]

Zeinab Mahmoud Mohamed

Zeinab Mahmoud Mohamed

This lady looks like she was too tough to succumb to bf -- or any other disease! Sounds like she denied keeping poultry....

Machine translated from Arabic:

The death of the first injury by the bird flu in Minya
May 19, 2006

Minya - Mokhtar Mahrous:

The first injury state was dead by the bird flu in Minya yesterday and she the sixth state that throws its death affected by the disease on the republic level. Zeinab Mahmoud Mohamed was 75 years from the village of Al Bihou belonging to Samalut center the result of its mixing has been injured since 15 days by severe fatigue to the house birds. And a person the doctors are its state that it is senility diseases specially that it denied its mixing of the birds. One of the doctors doubted [suspected] the state and decided its transfer to the university hospital and the analyses result came a positive. And two days after the attempt of the control on the virus the mrs. took its breaths yesterday's dawn so that the death toll rises by the disease to 6 persons.

http://www.alwafd.org/front/detail.php?id=12624&cat=smal&PHPSESSID=789b7f46fab623ee493f018b60f66614

 

[Theresa42]

Some additional details on Zeinab Mahmoud Mohamed (6th death)

Some additional details on Zeinab Mahmoud Mohamed (6th death)

Machine translated from Arabic:

After the death of the sixth victim: the need family is Zeinab it confirms the failure of the doctors in a diagnosis of satisfied bird flu
May 24, 2006

Minya - Mokhtar Mahrous:

And Minya Governate called a new victim from the victims of an influenza epidemic the birds, Al Bihou village in Samalut district escorted the village daughter body the need is Zeinab Mahmoud Mohamed after a conflict that continued 5 days with the sick, amid a big sadness from the peoples, and fears of the fall of another victim because of the disease [reference to the child reported to be a suspected case], under the non move the health officials in the governorate, and taking the preventive measures for the limitation of the appearance of other states, and it is considered the state of the sixth citizen on the level of the republic and the initial one in Minya Governate. The delegation moved to the citizen family house, and it met with its five sons, and the formed is from 4 girls and who the death news distressed confirming its struggle and its suffering in their upbringing, and they loaded the preservation officials the responsibility the result of their neglect in the blockade of the disease that Audi is with the life of their mother.

Soad Aql Galal the eldest daughter of the victim, said: we got rid of the birds in the house since more from two weeks, and we did not know that the nestlings are injured, and we were surprised with the disease of my mother and did not show us one of that it is the fatal disease, and that the lag of the disease diagnosis he is the reason in the death of my mother, and confirmed Wafaa Aql the second daughter to the victim the astonishment state that injured the family their mother death result, and she added that its mother works Daeh in the village and enjoys all the love of the village people, and fear a fulfillment that the injury of her mother took place outside the house and her touch of birds outside the house, he is the reason in its injury, because their birds slaughtered them since more than two weeks and the disease of its mother started in the appearance of its symptoms since 5 days before the death. [Some of the family members seem to think she didn't catch bf from the household poultry.]

A greeting and sublime is Al Anbtan the other of the victim, returned the death of their mother to the neglect, and said: the doctors who supervised the state why they diagnose the disease of their mother despite that the asking for the work of analyses took place, but the doctors return you her disease to the diabetes and that the rise of the diabetes ratio is in the blood behind the disease of their mother.

Mokhtar Abdin is one of the victim relatives he said: the disease that injured the victim injured it before the death by five days and have been presented to more from a doctor and unfortunately the disease diagnosis did not take place despite the rise of a temperature largely and the failure of all medicines in the stability of the state the decrease of a degree the heat, but the village doctor hurried into its transfer to the university hospital of Minya what we knew that it is injured with this killing virus, demanding with the necessity of the supervision and the health enlightenment to the villages peoples who became subject to the destruction to the non care of the officials.

Abdul Tawwab Mohamed Shehata an employee in Minya cement plant, added that the dead birds take place unfortunately its casting into the streets and the canals, and the fortification [vaccination] of the nestlings, which threatens with the rise of the states of the village did not take place.

http://www.alwafd.org/front/detail.php?id=2380&cat=mohafazat

 

[sharon sanders]

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