EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Five_new_suspected_bird_flu_cases_h_02092007.html

Five new suspected bird flu cases hospitalized, one positive

Published: Friday February 9, 2007

Cairo- Five Egyptian patients suspected of being infected
with the bird-flu virus and one positive patient have been
hospitalized across Egypt, Egypt's independent al-Masry al-Youm
newspaper reported Friday.

Three thousand birds had been killed and 35,000 others vaccinated,
the newspaper reported.

All the cases raised poultry domestically and were suffering from
respiratory problems and fever, symptoms similar to bird flu, the
report added.

Laboratory tests indicated that the virus was present in two new
villages in Menoufiyah governorate.

Local authorities and the Health Ministry, meanwhile, cordoned off
the area containing the virus.

? 2006 - dpa German Press Agency

Thanks, Niko! See comment on this story over here:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16323

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

From Reuters

Six Egyptians being tested for bird flu - MENA

10 Feb 2007 19:28:23 GMT

Source: Reuters

CAIRO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Six Egyptians were being tested for bird flu in a town south of Cairo on Saturday after displaying flu-like symptoms, state news agency MENA reported.

They are from several villages near the town of Fayoum and range in age from three to 40, MENA said, adding that one of them, a 24-year-old female, was in critical condition.

MENA quoted a Health Ministry source as saying all six were known to have been in contact with poultry, and that biological samples had been sent for testing in the ministry's laboratories.

Samples were also taken from the poultry, as a number of them had died, he added.

On Monday, a 17-year-old Egyptian girl died of H5N1, making her the 12th Egyptian to die of the virus.

In January, the World Health Organisation said that two people who had died of bird flu in Egypt were found to have a strain of the virus which has shown moderate resistance to the frontline antiviral Tamiflu.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10351259.htm

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

From Reuters

Six Egyptians being tested for bird flu - MENA

10 Feb 2007 19:28:23 GMT

Source: Reuters

CAIRO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Six Egyptians were being tested for bird flu in a town south of Cairo on Saturday after displaying flu-like symptoms, state news agency MENA reported.

They are from several villages near the town of Fayoum and range in age from three to 40, MENA said, adding that one of them, a 24-year-old female, was in critical condition.

(...)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10351259.htm

I'm guessing that this 24 year-old is this person:

Doctor Hussein Sophie Aboutalb said, the Ministry of Health deputy in Al Fayyum Um Hashem's detention took place Fatah Abd Al-Salam "23 a year", from a village an ash turned [Dar ashes] and suffers from a double pneumonia and a rise in the temperature, and it became clear that it was the intermixture of birds in its house where it died 7 chicken.

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

Six suspected cases of human bird flu in Egypt
Feb 10, 2007

CAIRO (AFP) - Six Egyptians were hospitalized after showing symptoms of bird flu amid fears of a global surge in infections by the deadly virus, the official MENA news agency said.

The six, including a three-year-old girl and a 24-year-old woman in critical condition, are from villages around the town of Fayoum, south of Cairo, and are known to have come into contact with poultry, MENA said.

Test samples for the six were sent to health ministry laboratories, MENA said, adding that the poultry was also being tested as some of the birds had had died.

Egypt -- the Arab world's most populous state -- is on a major route for migratory birds. The H5N1 strain of bird flu was first diagnosed in humans in Egypt in March, 2006.

On February 6, a teenage girl became the fifth Egyptian to die of bird flu in six weeks.

With 12 deaths overall, Egypt is the fifth most affected country in the world and the worst-hit outside Asia.

David Nabarro, who heads the United Nations' efforts to coordinate the fight against the disease, warned recently that a surge in outbreaks should be expected in the coming months.

According to the World Health Organization, a total of 166 people have now died from bird flu around the world. Experts fear the virus could cause a pandemic by mutating into a form that is transmissible between humans.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070210/wl_africa_afp/healthfluegypt_070210212522

 

[HenryN]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

It is worth noting that this is the same region with S227N.

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

It is worth noting that this is the same region with S227N.

Yes, indeed! Here's a map showing the Al Fayyum governorate area and the neighboring Beni Suwayf governorate:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64031&postcount=27

 

[HenryN]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

The HA and NA sequences from Beni Suef and Fayyoum are VERY similar, including an 3 BP deletion in HA. However, S227N is in the most recent isolate from Fayyoum.

I expect more to come soon.

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

The HA and NA sequences from Beni Suef and Fayyoum are VERY similar, including an 3 BP deletion in HA. However, S227N is in the most recent isolate from Fayyoum.

I expect more to come soon.

Thanks, Doc!

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

Names/ages/locations of the 6 sus cases from Al Fayyum. Note that two of them -- Nadia Ahmed Abdullah (38) and the 3 year-old, Emad Saad -- are from the same village/area of Al Fayyum city(?) ("from the West in Al Fayyum district")...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The suspicion of the injury of 6 persons by Anflounz disease the birds in Al Fayyum
Feb 10, 2007

Al Fayyum / A Sh . أ : Doctor Hussein Sophie Abu Taleb the Ministry of Health deputy referred in Al Fayyum 6 case to the Fever Hospital for its isolation and its putting under observation for the suspicion of its injury by the bird flu.

And he said that the conditions Al Mkhtgza are Naglaa Ahmed Atiya / 24 years / house lord [housewife] from the village of Al Hit facility in Atsa center and its condition is critical and the child is Emad Saad's names / 3 years / from the West in Al Fayyum district and Hoda Kamel Ismail / 40 years / from Dmou's facility Atsa center is Nayel's Ramadan Wibrhim / 27 years / a teacher from a village then Maine hand in Sinnuris district and Nadia Ahmed Abdullah / 38 years / from the West in Al Fayyum district and Hussein Shehata on Shahat / 30 years / from Arafa mill Atsa center.

And he added that it became clear that the six the suspect persons in their injury by the disease they from the contacts to the birds and taking samples has taken place from them they were sent to the central laboratories in the Ministry of Health for their analysis.

And he pointed out that taking samples took place from the birds that sent to the veterinary laboratories especially and numbers of them and all have dead who Al Tioralmnzlia [avian influenza] and was imitator in their disease by the bird flu they suffer from the pneumonia and the rise of temperatures.

http://www.07770500.com/News_Service/News_details.asp?id=13090

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

Names/ages/locations of the 6 sus cases from Al Fayyum. Note that two of them -- Nadia Ahmed Abdullah (38) and the 3 year-old, Emad Saad -- are from the same village/area of Al Fayyum city(?) ("from the West in Al Fayyum district")...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The suspicion of the injury of 6 persons by Anflounz disease the birds in Al Fayyum
Feb 10, 2007

Al Fayyum / A Sh . أ : Doctor Hussein Sophie Abu Taleb the Ministry of Health deputy referred in Al Fayyum 6 case to the Fever Hospital for its isolation and its putting under observation for the suspicion of its injury by the bird flu.

And he said that the conditions Al Mkhtgza are Naglaa Ahmed Atiya / 24 years / house lord [housewife] from the village of Al Hit facility in Atsa center and its condition is critical and the child is Emad Saad's names / 3 years / from the West in Al Fayyum district and Hoda Kamel Ismail / 40 years / from Dmou's facility Atsa center is Nayel's Ramadan Wibrhim / 27 years / a teacher from a village then Maine hand in Sinnuris district and Nadia Ahmed Abdullah / 38 years / from the West in Al Fayyum district and Hussein Shehata on Shahat / 30 years / from Arafa mill Atsa center.

(...)

http://www.07770500.com/News_Service/News_details.asp?id=13090

This is the second teacher reported to be a sus case in the last couple of days -- they are from different governorates, though:

And the hospital of Damietta fevers declared the detention of two women for the suspicion, one of them from Al-Roda Village, and the second from Fariskur, while the detention of a teacher took place in Ashmun in Monofiya in the hospital of Minuf fevers, while Qena Governorate declared a detention house lord [housewife] after the discovery of an injury focus in its house.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=63978&postcount=35

 

[Theresa42]

Re: EGYPT - Suspected case news/tracking - Jan 23+

New Egypt tracking thread here:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16372