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MOH "does not appear strains of avian flu mutated in Egypt"
Monday, September 5, 2011 - 15:09
Dr. Nasr El-Sayed, Assistant Minister of Health Affairs of Preventive Medicine and endemic diseases, the absence Egypt completely from any strains mutated from avian flu, pointing out that the bird flu virus is divided into two types, the first birds, and the other affects the humans which has not seen any mutation since it emerged in Egypt in 2006.
The total number of cases since 2006 reached 151 cases, in addition to the registration of 32 infection since January 2011, and the percentage of deaths by 34%, a figure which is very low compared to the proportions world, which up to 62%, pointing out that the ministry of all the procedures for surveillance and prevention to follow up any new infections, especially that bird flu is endemic in Egypt. and about the warnings of a number of health experts from strains mutated.
Dr. Nasr El-Sayed says that there is no reason to panic or fear of those warnings in Egypt, especially in light of the procedures epidemiological surveillance carried out by the ministry, as well as the absence of any other strains of the virus in Egypt, pointing out that citizens can in case of suspicion of any injury [call] general emergency number 137. The number health experts with the United Nations released a warning of the spread of strain mutant of avian influenza virus, the resistance to vaccines current, and that the stock's main drugs for the disease may be useless, and warned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the occurrence of a rapid spread of influenza virus, especially with the emergence of semantics the presence of mutated strain of bird flu in Asia, and urged the Organization to step up surveillance and prepare for a different strain of the H5 virus that hit that 565 people since it first appeared in 2003 and the killings of 331 of them.
http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=486755&SecID=97&IssueID=0
MOH "does not appear strains of avian flu mutated in Egypt"
Monday, September 5, 2011 - 15:09
Dr. Nasr El-Sayed, Assistant Minister of Health Affairs of Preventive Medicine and endemic diseases, the absence Egypt completely from any strains mutated from avian flu, pointing out that the bird flu virus is divided into two types, the first birds, and the other affects the humans which has not seen any mutation since it emerged in Egypt in 2006.
The total number of cases since 2006 reached 151 cases, in addition to the registration of 32 infection since January 2011, and the percentage of deaths by 34%, a figure which is very low compared to the proportions world, which up to 62%, pointing out that the ministry of all the procedures for surveillance and prevention to follow up any new infections, especially that bird flu is endemic in Egypt. and about the warnings of a number of health experts from strains mutated.
Dr. Nasr El-Sayed says that there is no reason to panic or fear of those warnings in Egypt, especially in light of the procedures epidemiological surveillance carried out by the ministry, as well as the absence of any other strains of the virus in Egypt, pointing out that citizens can in case of suspicion of any injury [call] general emergency number 137. The number health experts with the United Nations released a warning of the spread of strain mutant of avian influenza virus, the resistance to vaccines current, and that the stock's main drugs for the disease may be useless, and warned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the occurrence of a rapid spread of influenza virus, especially with the emergence of semantics the presence of mutated strain of bird flu in Asia, and urged the Organization to step up surveillance and prepare for a different strain of the H5 virus that hit that 565 people since it first appeared in 2003 and the killings of 331 of them.
http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=486755&SecID=97&IssueID=0