Egypt - Woman hospitalized in Damietta - Positive for avian influenza - Mediareport - Health Directorate of Damietta denies

[Gert van der Hoek]

"Veterinary Damietta": Completion of immunization of the focus of avian influenza

jan 7, 2018

The Directorate of Veterinary Medicine in Damietta has completed the vaccination of poultry and farms in the area of ​​"Shatt Jaribah" in Damietta after the discovery of the first positive focus of bird flu in the region after the results of analysis of one of the women of the region that the sample was positive and infected with Avian Influenza virus and was detained at Damietta Fever Hospital.

A source in the Department of Veterinary Medicine in Damietta, that all the birds were executed in the house of the infected lady, where she was Is raising poultry at the top of her home, adding that this area will be under medical supervision for 21 days.So as to be sure to eliminate the disease in it permanently, noting that many of the birds were executed in those focus.

The source said that the Directorate received two reports of the arrival of two women to the hospital Damietta fevers suffer fromTte symptoms of bird flu were withdrawn and sent to the central laboratories of the Ministry of Health for analysis and confirmed the results positive one, while the result of the other sample has not yet been shown.

Dr. Ihab Shukry, Director General of Veterinary Medicine in Damietta, said that the Directorate has started implementing the plan to face the bird flu in the winter season, where the random sampling of the selected areas and samples were drawn and sent to the central laboratories for analysis, stressing that the process of examination and follow-up by rapid deployment teams Across the province.

Shokry pointed out that the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine "Damietta Department Veterinary Extension Department" organized a symposium on medical culture in cooperation with the Society Development Society in the first department of Damietta on bird flu, foot and mouth diseases and common diseases between humans and animals. And the diseases that are transmitted.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Health Directorate of Damietta denies what was published by an independent newspaper on bird flu

jan 9, 2018

Damietta Health Directorate denied what was published in an independent newspaper on January 7, 2018, on the discovery of a focus of infection with bird flu virus.

Dr. Ramadan Al-Khatib, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Damietta and according to information and data in the surveillance department of the Directorate of Health in Damietta until the date of 9 January 2018 and according to all the data of the analysis of suspicious cases coming from the central laboratories at the Ministry of Health that there is absolutely no positive cases of bird flu in Damietta Governorate.

Al-Khatib added that the Health Directorate in Damietta reserves the right to take legal action against publishing false information without reference to the facts and correct information. Attached below is a copy of the false news which was published without any official statements, which is totally incorrect.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Execution of 1000 white chickens infected with bird flu in Damietta

[FONT=&quot]Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:26 P[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]The Directorate of Veterinary Medicine in Damietta managed to control a bird flu site in the Shatt Jaribah area. A total of 1000 white chickens were executed and executed, and measures were taken to encircle the site at a distance of 5 kilometers in the vicinity of the discovered site.

The Directorate of Veterinary Medicine Damietta has taken its actions after receiving the result of samples drawn from the home of a citizen in the village of Shatt Jaribah, where he was raising 1000 white chickens and began to appear symptoms of Zergan and death.[/FONT]

Dr Amr Badir, a doctor of Al-Kaho, administered the veterinary department of Damietta to withdraw the samples. The results were positive and infected with avian influenza. ​