Re: Lethal bird flu found in Saudi poultry farm
Re: Lethal bird flu found in Saudi poultry farm
Google-translated from Arabic:
The Saudi Ministry of Agriculture declared a state of emergency to face bird flu
.. and the state of confusion the Gulf markets
Nov 20, 2007
Riyadh - Abdalnbe Shaheen:
The Gulf Cooperation Council states yesterday, the high commission in the case of the continuous work designed to precautionary measures to prevent the transmission of an avian influenza pandemic to man, after his appearance in a number of governorates of the Riyadh region at the time
it declared the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture is virtually a state of emergency and opened centers in most cities of Saudi Arabia to receive reports of avian influenza.
Chaired by the Director-General of the Executive Office of the Council of Health Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Dr. Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja emergency meeting of the members of the executive body yesterday morning at the Executive Office of the embassy district of Riyadh and in the presence of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health of Saudi Affairs Executive Dr. Mansour bin Nasser sensory.
Khoja confirmed that the Gulf Cooperation Council has taken action to prevent disease and hospitality, where avian influenza formed a supreme committee from the ministries of health-and municipal-Agriculture and the National Authority for the protection of wildlife, and emerged from a committee headed by the general managers of departments involved in these ministries, which in the case of the constant whenever called to be so.
He added that the ministries concerned and put its pilot was created as reference laboratories and the Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture uses advanced techniques.
Khoja said that there was coordination with the ministries of a continuing relationship for a hypothetical plans in the face of this disease and to the top of all the ministries concerned with the follow-up developments of the avian influenza disease and setting up courses to observers Aloabaiin diseases common with the competent authorities, and workshops continue.
He pointed out that property insurance antiretroviral GCC countries are communicated to the Council states the latest update of position on the issue according to the World Health Organization, as well as the cumulative cases of human infections with HIV H5N1 and deaths posted on the WHO.
Are Member States submit periodic publications issued by the World Health Organization in various territories with everything that is new in this topic.
Execution of 200 thousand chickens
For its part, the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture is virtually a state of emergency and opened centers in most cities of Saudi Arabia to receive communications avian influenza, announced yesterday, Monday, the discovery of avian influenza disease in a third poultry Bakherj located north of Al-Kharj province on the path of Riyadh Al-Kharj.
Having started the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture and committees in charge of a number of relevant government departments in addition to the workers specialists executed more than "200,000" chickens infected with avian influenza disease.
This project [poultry farm] has discovered where the disease recently near the first project [poultry farm] where the discovery, which confirms the disease transmission among poultry projects near some of which prompted citizens to demand from stakeholders in this regard to follow up on this project until it is transmitted infection and detection by to make sure they this epidemic.
Elsewhere, the Assistant Under-Al-Kharj province, Abdel Rahman bin Salem yesterday with a visit to this project for poultry briefed on the work of the commissions in charge of the execution of this chicken injured urged committees responsible for these projects to redouble efforts to besiege the disease and control its spread and before traveling to other poultry projects.
It will be hunting migratory birds on this project [poultry farm] so as not to cause injured in the transmission of another project.
The security men roads and security patrols significant efforts to prevent the citizens and residents of access to the site of the execution of infected poultry disease avian influenza.
Concern in the market
The increased concern in the community roots in Saudi Arabia after the discovery of avian influenza disease in some poultry farms in various parts of the provinces of the central region Kingdom, in particular near the capital Riyadh and farms that feed markets Riyadh tonnes of poultry, fresh daily, especially poultry and monopolize most dishes round Saudi Arabia.
The prevailing fears among poultry shops and restaurants in Riyadh result of the spread of the disease very quickly in many farms, which may reflect negatively on the demand of consumers to purchase, which will cause a decrease in prices significantly and substantial material losses estimated at millions in this important sector, with forecasts indicate prosperity meat market red considerably in the coming period by the emergence of this disease, turning most consumers to buy.
Mohamed Al-Habash, "restaurant manager," It did not take note so far is clearly reluctant customers on request chicken, but it emphasized that concern them controlled by the spread of the disease, pointing out that chicken is the largest request in restaurants in general and most dishes containing chicken which may expose them to big losses in the event played on the client request and especially red meat is very expensive for poultry meat restaurants achieved their profits high.
While referring Marwan Al-Absi "restaurant manager" What concerned about the many questions customers are infected poultry Is Avian even if through kidding sometimes the result of what Iqraunh and hear through the media every day, and that the demand for red meat has increased markedly during these days than portending disaster-as he put it in the event that the crisis persisted as rumors spread among the people very quickly and be negative repercussions on the poultry sector and restaurants in general, which is expected to incur significant losses.
The Mazar Karni "meat seller," The market is red meat recovery during the past three days is unusual, pointing out that he has achieved good sales which, depending on its customers view the fears of poultry meat and they may be infected with Avian.
Medical sources warned of the danger of development witnessed by the avian influenza pandemic noting that the disease started to take serious curves represented in rebellion on the types of antiretroviral drugs to him.
The sources confirmed that the firm is currently transmission of the disease from birds to humans in two ways firstly by addressing meat birds infected by the epidemic-smoked well, with the second way through inhalation of ashes and residues of these birds that are exposed mostly Almlamsin of these birds are either the education or dealing with one form or another, adding that the most serious of these types of infection is through inhalation.
It showed that the symptoms of avian flu are similar to many other types of influenza, with fever infected rights and congestion in the throat and coughing and could develop symptoms up to infections and incineration in the eye, and said
it had not been proven scientifically at the present time transmission of the virus from another person, however, did not rule out an this is especially since the disease develops staggering and manipulated or evaded drugs for resistance, indicating that the drugs currently available may not be effective if the disease was discovered late, if most of the limited usefulness in the early days of infection.
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