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Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Jeremy

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Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
<!--BEGIN ARTICLE-->CAIRO -- The Egyptian government says it has begun slaughtering all pigs in the country as a precautionary measure against the possible spread of swine flu.
The Health Ministry says the slaughter of the country's 300,000 pigs will begin immediately.
The ministry has stated several times that there are no cases swine flu in the country, however neighboring Israel has reported two.
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Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Ridiculous! Completely, utterly ridiculous and uncalled for!
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Government of Egypt, please, there is no flu in pigs.
There is only a new flu in humans. Pigs do not transmit this flu to humans like the bird flu ( birds to humans) did. This is totally different.
Ask expert virologists about this new Human flu.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

It is this lack of common sense that will welcome the spread. The man power and resources being used to kill the pigs (which have no virus) should be used toward preparation in the event it shows up (which appears that at some point it will).
 
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Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
<!--BEGIN ARTICLE-->CAIRO -- The Egyptian government says it has begun slaughtering all pigs in the country as a precautionary measure against the possible spread of swine flu.
The Health Ministry says the slaughter of the country's 300,000 pigs will begin immediately.
The ministry has stated several times that there are no cases swine flu in the country, however neighboring Israel has reported two.
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This is a stupid and useless action that will only add to the food crisis already ongoing in egypt.
This will only add starvation and poverty and will stop notting.
This H1N1 is a Human flu now.
This is the perfect example of the kind of colateral dammage that a misleading name + ignorance + political cowardness can do.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

It could add a lot more than to the food problem if the pig carcasses are not properly disposed of. 300,000 pigs could add up to a sizable pile of dead meat rotting in the sun of a hot climate. That is all that would be needed the possibility of plague on top of a flu pandemic.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Is H5N1 in pigs in Egypt now? If so, perhaps they don't want the two to mix.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

There is a massive implication on food supply to the region, even for muslims in an area where there are general food shortages. I do not feel that this decision is taken lightly whenthere have been food riots in the very recent past.

Pigs could act as a mixing vessel for H5N1 and human swine flu, on the assumption that this virus is still capable of infecting pigs. Thus this decision may be being made on sound scientific risk grounds. We dont know how much of a probelm there may be of H5N1 infection in pigs, in a region where the virus is endemic.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

That was what I thought. If this is the case, then I suspect that something very bad is happening in Egypt and they are trying to contain it. JMO..
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

WHO expresses the fear of transmission of swine flu in Egypt because of the farms

29/Apr/09
Al-Masry Al-Youm
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/...
World Health Organization expressed concern on the transmission of swine flu infection in Egypt, because of the proximity of pig farms of the population, said the regional office of the organization - based in Cairo - Egypt is currently free of swine flu, but the problem is the presence of pigs near the humans.

"There is, consequently, fear of infection,"said Dr Hussein Gezairy, Regional Director of the World Health Organization at a press conference yesterday: "the problem must be eliminated, either dispose of or transfer of pig farms to places far from population centers"

SNIP

Something is up here - my bet is that it is down to H5N1 reassortment fears.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LT902087.htm


Egypt order to cull all pigs "a mistake"-UN agency
29 Apr 2009 15:19:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

ROME, April 29 (Reuters) - Egypt's order on Wednesday to cull all the country's pigs is "a real mistake", the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation's chief veterinary officer told Reuters.

"It's a real mistake. There is no reason to do that. It's not a swine influenza, it's a human influenza,
" said Joseph Domenech, adding the FAO had been trying to reach Egyptian officials but has so far been unsuccessful.


Egyptian cabinet spokesman Magdy Rady put the number of pigs that could be culled at between 300,000 and 400,000, adding that farmers would be compensated.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart, Editing by Peter Blackburn)
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LT902087.htm


Egypt order to cull all pigs "a mistake"-UN agency
29 Apr 2009 15:19:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

ROME, April 29 (Reuters) - Egypt's order on Wednesday to cull all the country's pigs is "a real mistake", the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation's chief veterinary officer told Reuters.

"It's a real mistake. There is no reason to do that. It's not a swine influenza, it's a human influenza," said Joseph Domenech, adding the FAO had been trying to reach Egyptian officials but has so far been unsuccessful.

Egyptian cabinet spokesman Magdy Rady put the number of pigs that could be culled at between 300,000 and 400,000, adding that farmers would be compensated.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart, Editing by Peter Blackburn)

OooooF! Maybe they'll change their mind.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Farmers in the most populous Arab country said the state had begun confiscating animals. State news agency Mena said Egypt had also culled thousands of birds as a precaution.

"They have destroyed us. The pigs were our livelihood," said 21-year-old Hanan Ahmed, whose family runs a small farm with around 25 pigs in Cairo.

"They took them. They kidnapped them. And they beat them and us. They said they will take them to the slaughterhouse and kill them there," she added, saying she had received no compensation.

The H1N1 swine flu virus is spread by people, not pigs. But culling swine, largely viewed as unclean in Muslim Egypt, could help quell any public panic.

In the southern village of Deir Abu Hennes, workers suffocated 25 piglets in plastic sacks and killed dozens of adult pigs and gave the meat to their owners, a local official said.

Some farmers there took their pigs to a graveyard to try to hide them from authorities, but the animals were found and killed on the spot, the official and residents said.

Abaza said he was seeking the army's help with the slaughter, which Egyptian state media reported could take up to a month to complete.

In one slaughterhouse near Cairo, workers wearing masks used their boot-clad feet to hold down the snouts of pigs while they tested them for illness prior to slaughter.

"The issue of slaughtering more than 300,000 heads of pig is a difficult one, especially since private pig slaughterhouses are not enough. We will seek the help of armed forces slaughterhouses," Abaza told Reuters.

"The meat will be preserved in freezers after it is removed from the bones and will be offered for sale to consumers," he said.

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Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

1700 was also the execution of the removal of birds and 220 straw ..
مطاردات مثيرة للخنازير فى مقابر ومنازل المنيا​
A witch-hunt pigs in the Upper Egyptian tombs and houses


الأحد، 3 مايو 2009 - 15:15​
Sunday, May 3, 2009 - 15:15
الخنازير تربى بالمنازل فى بعض المحافظات​
Domestic pigs are raised in some provinces
المنيا ـ حسن عبد الغفار​
El Hassan Abdel-Ghaffar
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واصلت حملات مكافحة الأنفلونزا فى المنيا جهودها فى مسح القرى والمدن للبحث عن الطيور الحية والخنازير والتخلص منها، حيث تمكنت من إعدام 1750 طائراً ودجاجة بمركزى مغاغة والعدوة، والقبض على 30 رأس خنزير مهربة داخل المقابر فى البياضية.​
Continued campaigns against influenza in the survey efforts in the Upper Egyptian villages and cities in search of live birds, pigs and disposal, where the execution of the 1750 birds and chickens Megaga centers and enemy, and the arrest of 30 smuggled inside a pig's head in the village cemetery.

وأكد مدير مديرية الطب البيطرى بالمنيا، أن الحملة توجهت إلى مركز مغاغة لأنه يعد بؤرة نشطة لانتشار أنفلونزا الطيور، حيث ظهرت به حالة إصابة إيجابية تم علاجها بالقاهرة و12حالة اشتباه، وقال إن الحملة تمكنت من ذبح 1700 طائر ودجاجة تمت مصادرتها من عدد من محلات بيع الطيور ومن بعض المنازل، وتم تحرير 12 محضراً لأصحاب محلات الطيور وإزالة 220 عشة بمنازل الأهالى، وهو الأمر نفسه الذى تم بمركز العدوة.​
The Director of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine and queens, the campaign went to the scene of the Center because it is an active focus for the spread of avian influenza, showing the positive cases were treated in Cairo and 12 suspected, and said that the campaign was able to slaughter 1700 birds and chickens have been confiscated from a number of shops selling birds In some houses, and liberated the 12 minutes of bird owners and the removal of 220 people shanty houses, the same thing, which was the status of the enemy.

وفى سياق متصل تمكنت الحملة من إعدام 50 خنزيراً بقرية دير الجرنوس بمركز مغاغة كانت تربى داخل المنازل، وتبحث اللجنة تحليل عدد من رؤوس المواشى كانت تخالط هذه الخنازير بقرية شم البحرية بمركز مغاغة، حيث لا يوجد قرار بذبح هذه المواشى إلا بعد أخذ عينة منها وتحليلها.​
In the context of the campaign has related to the execution of 50 pigs from the village of Deir Jernos the status of a bell was raised in the home, and the committee will consider the analysis of a number of head of cattle had contact with these pigs village smell the status of the marine scene, where there is no decision to slaughter these animals, however, after taking a sample and analysis.

الجدير بالذكر أن الحملة بدأت تستهدف المقابر بعد أن تم اكتشاف أكثر من 30 رأس خنزير مخبأة داخلها بقرية البياضية.​
It should be noted that the campaign targeted the graves began after the discovery of more than 30 pig's head, hidden inside the village, the village.:tiphat: http://tinyurl.com/dmabuy
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

If they are going to cull pork and poultry I would expect protein shortages to add to the bread/grain problem. This could further weaken the human population's ability to fight off disease. I hope it does not cause more civil unrest.
 
Re: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu

Could the Egyptian decision have something to do with reports of human-to-pig transmission of the SF virus in Canada?
 
Swine flu: Egypt kills 11,000 pigs to counter virus

Swine flu: Egypt kills 11,000 pigs to counter virus

Swine flu: Egypt kills 11,000 pigs to counter virus

Cairo, 8 May (AKI) - Egyptian authorities have destroyed 11,000 pigs in what they say is a bid to contain the risk posed by the worldwide outbreak of swine flu. According to Jamal Mubarak, son of the president and deputy-secretary of the National Democratic party, said the issue deserved "maximum attention".

"At the moment not a single case of anyone affected by the swine flu virus has been found in the country," Mubarak told the local daily, al-Ahram. "The situation deserves maximum attention."

Despite assurances from the United Nations' World Health Organization that there is no risk of contracting the virus from pork consumption, Egyptian authorities are expected to accelerate the slaughter of all the pigs in the country next week.

There are reportedly animals waiting to be killed in abbattoirs in al-Qalaj and al-Munib.

The cull has sparked tensions with members of Egypt's Coptic Christian community of over six million people, from which most of the country's pig farmers come.

Authorities have also increased security checks because of fears that pork meat sales will continue in secret.

In Egypt there has only been one suspected case of swine flu reported - a 32-year-old pregnant woman.


The young woman went to hospital with a high fever, but the results of her medical tests have not been confirmed by the ministry of health.

Panic over swine flu in Egypt has been heightened by the fact that it suffered at least 26 deaths from bird flu- the highest number of any country outside Asia.

But the World Health Organization has stressed that pork products would not be a source of infection and influenza viruses are not known to be transmissible to people through consumption of processed pork or other pork products.

Cooking meat will readily inactivate any viruses potentially present in raw meat products, WHO said in a statement.

WHO said on Thursday that 2,371 people in 24 countries now had confirmed cases of swine flu.

Mexico has reported 1,112 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 42 deaths.
 
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The smuggling of pigs from the stables ?15 May? .. لايزال مستمراً Still continues

كتب هيثم دبور ١٤/ ٥/ ٢٠٠٩ Haitham wrote Dabbour 5-14-2009

لم يتغير شىء فى زرائب ?١٥ مايو? منذ أن تفجر وباء أنفلونزا الخنازير، وإصدار الدولة قراراً بذبح الخنازير، خاصة أن مشكلات زرائب ?١٥ مايو? استثنائية، حيث تعدها الدولة لأن تكون أكبر مزرعة خنازير بطاقة تصل إلى ٢٥٠ ألف رأس خنزير على مساحة ٢٣٠ ألف فدان، إلى جانب أن موقع الملاصق للمساكن، حيث لا يفصل بينهما سوى مقابر المسلمين والأقباط، ومساكن متعهدى بناء المقابر، Has not changed anything in the stables ?15 May,? since the outbreak of swine flu epidemic, and the issuance of the decision to slaughter pigs, in particular the problems of stables ?15 May? exceptional, as prepared by the State to be the biggest pig farm card up to 250 A pig's head on an area of 230 feddans, in addition to the site adjacent to the housing, where there is only separated by the graves of Muslims and Christians, haulage building housing the graves,

ويتخذ أصحاب الزرائب من أرض ?مخر السيل? موقعاً لها، و?مخر السيل? هو سهل جاف موصول بنهر النيل لاستخدامه فى تصريف المياه فى حالة السيول، وهو ما يهدد المنطقة التى يسكنها ٣٠٠٠ شخص يعملون فى تربية الخنازير بالغرق، كما يهدد مياه المصرف فى حالة فتح السدود بتلوث شديد بفعل الزرائب، وتضم زرائب ١٥ مايو نحو ٢٠ ألف رأس خنزير تمتد بعمق ٣ كيلو مترات. And take the owners of the land stables ?Mkr stream? signed it, and ?Mkr stream? is connected to a dry plain of the Nile River in the discharge of water used in the event of flooding, which threatens the region, which is home to 3000 people are engaged in raising pigs drowning, also threatens the water in the bank Where dams severely contaminated by the stables, and stables on May 15 with about 20 thousand head of pigs ranging in depth 3 km.

واكتفت الداخلية بأن تضع على كل مدخل من مدخلى الزرائب ?كشكاً أمنياً? يتناوب عليه ثلاثة ضباط، يمنعون الاختلاط بين سكان ١٥ مايو وأهالى الزرائب، ويمنعون دخول المصورين والصحفيين ووسائل الإعلام إلى منطقة ?١٥ مايو?، إلا أن طبيعة المنطقة الممتدة فى عمق الصحراء مع وجود مداخل ومخارج عبر ?التبة المرتفعة? التى تكشف المنطقة، تسمح لأهالى الزرائب بتهريب الخنازير وهو ما يردده أهالى ?١٥ مايو?، ويقول رجائى أحمد، موظف بالمعاش: ?تربطنى علاقة قوية بأصحاب الزرائب، Only that the interior of each entrance to the stables of the Portal ?kiosk security? rotates by three officers, preventing mixing between the inhabitants and the people of May 15 stables, and prevent the entry of photographers and journalists and the media to the ?15 May?, however, that the nature of the region that extends deep into the desert with The presence of the entrances and exits through the ?high Altbp?, which reveals the region, allowing people smuggling pig stables is what people ?15 May?, says Rajaei Ahmed, an employee pension: ?I have a strong relationship with the owners of stables,

حيث أخبرنى أحدهم أنهم توجهوا بنحو ٢٠٠ خنزير الجمعة الماضى لذبحها فى مجزر البساتين، ولكنه أعادها مرة أخرى لأن دورهم لم يحدد بعد?، وشدد على أن النقل بين الزرائب والمجزر مرتين فيه خطورة شديدة نظراً لمرورهم بالكتل السكنية، موضحاً أن أحد أصحاب الزرائب أخبره بأن دورهم تحدد بعد شهرين من الآن. He told me that one of them as they went about 200 last Friday to a pig slaughter in the abattoir orchards, but he returned once again, because their role has yet been set ?, and stressed that the transport between the stables and slaughterhouse two very serious view of the residential blocks through, pointing out that one of the stables told that their determined after two months from now.

سكان الزرائب أصبحوا أكثر عنفاً فى مواجهة المصورين لاعتقادهم أن الضرر الواقع عليهم سببه الأساسى الإعلام، لدرجة جعلت بعض أهالى الزرائب يتسلقون ?التبة? بمجرد رؤية عدسات التصوير، يؤكد ذلك يحيى العراقى أحد سكان ?١٥ مايو? قائلاً: ?فوجئنا باعتداء بعض سكان الزرائب على عدد من مصورى القنوات الفضائية أثناء تصويرهم خلال الأيام السابقة، وقذفوا المصورين بالحجارة، Population stables have become more violent in the face of photographers in the belief that the damage caused to the Basic Information, to the extent that some people climbing the stables ?Altbp?, just by looking at the cameras, the one that the Iraqi population Yahya ?15 May,? saying: ?Some residents were surprised attack on stables the number of satellite channels, cameramen photographed during the course of the previous days, and threw stones at the photographers,

ورغم أن الأمر لم يسفر عن اشتباكات بين الأهالى وأصحاب الزرائب، فإنهم يهربون الخنازير بسهولة نتيجة اتساع المنطقة، ووجود عدد من المخارج الجبلية التى يعتمدون عليها بعيداً عن أكمنة الشرطة?. Although it did not result in clashes between residents and owners of stables, they are fleeing pigs easily result in the whole region, and the presence of a number of exits the mountain on which they depend away from the ambush, police ?.

أما رؤوف، أحد سائقى العربات نصف النقل التى تنقل القمامة والخنازير فى الوقت ذاته فيقول: ?لم يتم ذبح أو إعدام أى خنزير حتى الآن، وكان من المقرر أن يتم ذبح ٢٠٠ خنزير الجمعة الماضى، ثم تأجلت العملية إلى الأمس، ثم تأجلت مرة أخرى ويتردد أن دورنا فى الذبح سيكون بعد شهرين من الآن نتيجة قلة الطاقة الاستيعابية للمذابح، والكمائن الموجودة فى مدخلى الزرائب تدقق بشكل كبير على القمامة التى نحملها وعلى ما تحويه السيارات?. The Rauf, one half of the drivers of transport vehicles transporting garbage and pigs at the same time, says: ?not been any death or slaughter of a pig so far, and was scheduled to be the slaughter of 200 pigs last Friday, then postponed to yesterday's operation, and then postponed again, and reports that our role in the slaughter will be, after two months from now due to a lack of absorptive capacity of the massacres, ambushes and stables located in the Portal scrutiny largely on garbage, which we hold and the car contained ?.

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