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Regarding the bolded sentence in Florida1's post from last evening:
The reports emphasized that there had been no cases of the disease alter in Egypt or in the world so far. (Fla1 - What!?)
I think this may be a poor translation of the statement typically included in news articles reassuring the public that there is as yet no case of H5N1 "alter" in such a way as to make sustained transmission probable - i.e., no pandemic as of today in Egypt or elsewhere.
Bird Flu in Egypt - National Committee for Combating Bird Flu stresses retreat of disease 29/3/2008
The reports discussed by the National Committee for Combating Bird Flu in its meeting chaired by Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Ameen Abaza on 28/3/2008 said that cases of infection whether in birds or humans witness a continuous retreat as the cases detected during the first 3 months of 2008 reached 3 cases as compared to 15 cases during the same period of the previous year.
The repots mentioned that the recovery percentage for the children under 10 years reached 100%.
Spokesman of the Committee Ambassador Ayman Al-Qaffas said at a press conference on 27/3/2008 that the Committee will continue its meetings as long as the disease is there noting that a draft law was prepared for facing transmission of birds among governorates.
The law will be submitted to the People's Assembly for ratification and will include severe punishments, he added.
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is one of WHO’s six regional offices around the world. It serves the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, which comprises 21 Member States and the occupied Palestinian territory (West Bank and Gaza Strip), with a population of nearly 583 million people.
The Regional Office, together with country offices in 18 countries of the Region, works with governments, specialized agencies, partners and other stakeholders in the field of public health to develop health policies and strengthen national health systems. Countries of the Region are represented in the World Health Assembly, WHO Executive Board and Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean.
New confirmed human influenza case in Egypt
Case number: 47
Reported on 8 March 2008
The Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt has announced a new human case of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection. The case is an 8-year-old male from Etsa District, Fayum Governorate. He was hospitalized on 3 March 2008 in Fayum Fever Hospital and his first sample was negative and the second sample in 6 March 2008 was positive (the new regulation of the Ministry of Health and Population since December 2007, if the first sample was negative the patient remain hospitalized for second sample in day 3 of hospitalization). He was confirmed as being infected with A (H5N1) by the Ministry of Health and Population Central Public Health Laboratories on 7 March at 9:30 pm and NAMRU-3 on the 8<sup>th</sup>.
On suspicion of being infected with avian influenza
كفر الشيخ عبدالقادر الشوادفي:
Kafr El-Sheikh Abdul Kader Ahawadwi:
احتجز مستشفي الحميات بكفر الشيخ 9 حالات من مراكز مختلفة للاشتباه في إصابتها بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور.
Hospital dietary branch detained Sheikh 9 cases from different centres on suspicion of being infected with avian influenza disease.
الحالات التي تم احتجازها هي نجية عبدالواحد سعد "60 سنة" ربة منزل من مركز كفر الشيخ وفايزة محمد عبدالعزيز "42 سنة" ربة منزل من مركز قلين وروضة عبدالحميد سعد "5 سنوات" مركز كفر الشيخ وسعاد علي أحمد "44 سنة" ربة منزل مركز الرحمانية بحيرة وحبيبة زكريا علي "سنة" من مركز كفر الشيخ ومريم صبحي محمد "سنة" مركز المحلة ومبروكة محمد طه "45 سنة" مركز سيدي سالم وفتحية رمضان إبراهيم من مركز كفر الشيخ ومصطفي علي سالم من قرية محلة القصب.
Cases that have been detained are Njie Abdulwahid Saad "60 years" homemaker from the Centre and Kafr El-Sheikh Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Fayza "42 years" homemaker from the Centre Kulain kindergarten and Saad Abdul Hamid "5 years" status and Kafr El-Sheikh Saleh Ali Ahmed "44 years" homemaker centre ICT Lake and Habiba Zakaria for "years" from the Centre Kafr El-Sheikh, Mariam Mohamed Sobhi "the year" status Mahalla member Mohamed Taha "45 years" Mr. Salem Center and Fathia Ramadan Ibrahim from the Centre and Kafr El-Sheikh Mostafa Al-Salem from the village of reeds.
Egyptian man dies of bird flu - WHO official
05 Apr 2008 19:06:59 GMT
Source: Reuters
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CAIRO, April 5 (Reuters) -
An Egyptian man has died of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, bringing the number of fatalities in Egypt to 21, a World Health Organisation official said on Saturday.
Cairo-based WHO official John Jabbour told Reuters the 19-year-old victim had died on Friday after falling ill following contact with infected birds.
A 25-year-old woman died of bird flu last month.
It is the third winter the virus has struck after lying low during Egypt's hot summers.
The deadly virus first arrived in Egypt in early 2006.
About 5 million households in Egypt depend on poultry as a main source of food and income, and the government has said this makes it unlikely the disease can be eradicated despite a large-scale poultry vaccination programme.
Deaths from bird flu total more than 230 worldwide since 2003 and have been reported in several African and Asian countries. Egypt has been the worst-hit country outside of Asia.
(Reporting by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Caroline Drees) For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/
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Bird flu kills young man in Egypt, bringing toll to 21
The Associated PressPublished: April 5, 2008
CAIRO, Egypt:
A young man died in northern Egypt from avian influenza bringing the toll of the deadly virus in the country to 21, said the state news agency Saturday quoting health officials.
Mohammed Idris, from the northern province of Beheira, was admitted to the hospital in the port city of Alexandria with a high fever and respiratory problems on Thursday and did not respond to treatment with Tamiflu, Deputy Healthy Minister Nasr al-Sayyed told MENA.
Idris makes Egypt's 48th case and 21st fatality from the H5N1 virus which has devastated chicken populations around the world, but has yet to become widespread among humans, despite fears the virus might mutate into something more virulent.
The virus is typically contracted by those involved in the care and slaughter of poultry, which in Egypt is generally women and children.
There has only been one other case of an adult male dying from the disease in the country.
Egypt's last fatality was on March 4, when a woman in Fayyoum oasis, just south of the capital Cairo, succumbed to the disease.
Egypt, which is a major route for migratory birds and home to nearly a billion chickens, according to the U.N.'s food agency, has the most human cases of the disease in the world after Indonesia and Vietnam.
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Egypt reports new bird flu death
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CAIRO - An Egyptian teenager died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu on Saturday, the health ministry said, the 21st person to succumb to the virus since it was discovered here in 2006.
Mohammed Idris Hassan Ibrahim, 19, from the Nile Delta province of Beheira died in hospital, health ministry official Nasr al-Sayyed told the state MENA news agency.
"The boy had been taken to a hospital in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on April 3 after complaining of high fever and shortness of breath," Sayyed said.
"He had been exposed to infected poultry," he said.
Ibrahim was the 48th reported case of human bird flu in the country.
In January, four people died of the disease in just one week, after safety precautions had been relaxed with the belief that the virus had disappeared when no case had been reported in six months.
Last month, a woman died from the virus in Cairo after she was unsuccessfully treated with Tamiflu.
Egypt's location on major bird migration routes and the widespread practice of keeping domestic fowl near living quarters have led to it being the hardest-hit country outside Asia.
The government says it is conducting a vigorous campaign to combat the spread of the virus through vaccinations and raising awareness, but experts and officials have warned against people dropping their guard.
Earlier this year, Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali warned against slackness in the preventative measures taken to fight bird flu.
Health ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahin has repeatedly urged the public to remain vigilant and deplored the relaxation of precautions.
Officials have called for the banning of raising fowl in towns, and transporting them between provinces without authorisation.
They have also warned sick people that failure to report they have been in contact with contaminated domestic fowl makes it more difficult to detect the virus and to treat it.
Women and children have borne the brunt of the virus because of their role in taking care of domestic fowl.
The WHO said earlier this year that countries around the world had improved their defences against bird flu, but the situation remained critical in Egypt and Indonesia where the risk of the H5N1 virus mutating into a major human threat remains high.
A total of 238 have been killed by the virus worldwide.
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The death of a new avian influenza virus in Egypt
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القاهرة-محرر مصراوي- توفيت الحالة 21 نتيجة الإصابة بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور من بين 48 حالة إصابة منذ ظهور المرض بمصر فى شهر فبراير عام 2006 وذلك عقب تعرضه لطيور نافقة مصابة بالمرض .
CAIRO - Editor TOM - died situation 21 result avian influenza illness among 48 cases since the emergence of the disease in Egypt in February 2006, after he was dead birds infected with the disease.
وقالت وكالة أنباء الشرق الأوسط نقلا عن الدكتور نصر السيد مساعد وزير الصحة للشئون الوقائية والرعاية الصحية الأساسية وتنظيم الأسرة ان الشاب المتوفى هو محمد ادريس حسن ابراهيم الذى يبلغ من العمر 19 سنة وكان يقيم بالقصر الأخضر - كبانية أبوقير - محافظة البحيرة.
The Middle East News Agency quoted Dr. Nasr Mr. Assistant Minister of Public Health for preventive and primary health care and family planning that the deceased man is Mohamed Idris Hassan Ibrahim, a 19-year-old and was living in minors Verde - builders authority - Beheira Governorate.
وأشار الدكتور نصر السيد الى ان الشاب كان قد دخل مستشفى حميات الإسكندرية يوم 3 ابريل وهو يعانى من ارتفاع فى درجة الحرارة وضيق بالتنفس والتهاب رئوى أيمن ،وتم إعطاؤه عقار التاميفلو فور الاشتباه فى إصابته بالمرض.
And Dr Nasr that Mr. Young had entered a hospital salt Alexandria on April 3 is suffering from high temperature and narrow breathing and pneumonia Ayman, were given drug Tamiflu ® immediately suspected his illness.
ويعد الأطفال والنساء أكثر الفئات تعرضا للإصابة بالمرض حيث شهدت البلاد فى الشهر الأخير إصابة ثلاثة أطفال تتراوح أعمارهم بين 4 الى 11 عاما بأنفلونزا الطيور كما لقيت سيدة تبلغ من العمر 25 عاما حتفهم بسبب أصابتها بالمرض.
The children and women more vulnerable to the disease as the country witnessed in the last month injuring three children aged between 4 to 11 years, avian influenza was also a woman, aged 25 years, died from her illness.
ويرجع تزايد عدد المصابين بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور فى مصر إلى وقوعها على طريق الطيور المهاجرة وانتشار تربية الدواجن فى المنازل، وهو ما يفسر أن أكثر الذين لقوا حتفهم جراء المرض من النساء والأطفال.
Because of the increasing number of people diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt to occur on the path of migratory birds and the spread of poultry in homes, which explains that most of those who died of the disease are women and children.
ويخشى الخبراء من تحور الفيروس ليصبح قادرا على الانتقال بسهولة بين البشر، مما يهدد بوباء قد يودي بحياة الملايين في أنحاء متفرقة من العالم.
Experts fear the virus to alter be able to move easily between humans, threatening epidemic had kills millions in the four corners of the world.
الاهتمام بنقل الأحداث بجميع أنواعها, وتوفير معلومات كاملة إلى كل شرائح المجتمع ووضعها أمام عين القارئ دون تحريف أو تزييف, كما نتناول تغطية متميزة لكل القرارات والنشاطات الحكومية وما يتبعها من ردود أفعال, تناول أبرز ما اهتمت به الصحف العربية والعالمية, ورؤيتها للشأن المصري الداخلي, ومحاولة وجود نافذة على العالم لرؤية أكثر اتساعا إنسانيا وثقافيا وحضاريا, عالم يموج بالاضطرابات والنزاعات, تغيب أحيانا الحقائق, وتتوه المعلومات وسط زحام لا نهائي من الأخبار, نختار لكم أبرز ما يدور عربيا وعالميا, لنطرحه في ألوان صحفية شتى دون تحيز, لتكون على اتصال مباشر بقريتك الكونية, ومتابعات لما وراء الأخبار وتقصي للحقائق عبر تحقيقات ميدانية تهم المواطن المصري في كافة المجالات, متابعة القصص الانسانية والجانب الاخر من التغطية الخبرية في قالب مشوق وجذاب, وتغطية الاخبار الخفيفة من مصادرنا, يهتم بأهم الأحداث الاقتصادية في مصر من خلال رصد وتحليل أبرز المتغيرات والقضايا الاقتصادية التي تهم المواطنين بشكل لحظي, ويهتم بأبرز الموضوعات التقنية في مصر والعالم, وتطورات فيروس كورونا
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توفيت الحالة 21 نتيجة الإصابة بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور من بين 48 حالة اصابة منذ ظهور المرض بمصر في شهر فبراير عام 2006 وذلك عقب تعرضه لطيور نافقة مصابة بالمرض.
21 died situation result of avian influenza illness among 48 cases since the emergence of the disease in Egypt in February 2006, after he was dead birds infected with the disease.
صرح د.نصر السيد مساعد وزير الصحة للشئون الوقائية والرعاية الصحية الأساسية وتنظيم الأسرة بأن الشاب المتوفي هو محمد إدريس حسن إبراهيم الذي يبلغ من العمر 19 سنة وكان يقيم بالقصر الأخضر كبانية أبوقير محافظة البحيرة وهو طالب بحقوق الاسكندرية.
For his. Insist Mr. Assistant Minister of Public Health for preventive and primary health care and family planning that the deceased man is Mohamed Idris Hassan Ibrahim, a 19-year-old and was living in minors green builders authority preserve the lake, a student of human Alexandria.
Avian Flu Kills an Egyptian Man; Death Toll Increases to 21
By Abeer Allam
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt, the country with most deaths from avian influenza outside Asia, said a 19-year-old man died of bird flu, bringing to 21 the total number of people killed by the virus over the past two years.
Mohamed Idris, from the west Nile Delta province of al- Bohaira, developed a fever and breathing difficulty and was sent to Alexandria Hospital on April 3, Hamdi Mahmoud, a spokesman for the health ministry, said today in a telephone interview from Cairo.
``He was exposed to infected dead poultry at home,'' Mahmoud said. Idris was given Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu antiviral medicine but it was too late for him to survive, according to Mahmoud.
As many as 48 Egyptians have been infected with avian influenza, most of them have been women or girls handling household poultry. As many as five million Egyptian households raise chickens in their backyard for food or extra income.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza is known to have infected 378 people in 14 countries since 2003, killing 238 of them as of April 3, according to the World Health Organization. Indonesia and Vietnam are the only countries that have had more human deaths than Egypt, with 107 and 52 victims respectively.
To contact the reporter on this story: Abeer Allam in Cairo on aallam@bloomberg.net Last Updated: April 6, 2008 13:16 EDT
Avian Flu Kills an Egyptian Man; Death Toll Increases to 21
By Abeer Allam
As many as 48 Egyptians have been infected with avian influenza, most of them have been women or girls handling household poultry. To contact the reporter on this story: Abeer Allam in Cairo on aallam@bloomberg.net Last Updated: April 6, 2008 13:16 EDT
I believe the above comment shoud read "at least 48 Egyptians have been infected with avian influenza." The confirmed cases represent a LOWER limit. The confirmed mild cases suggest the true number of H5N1 cases in Egypt is MUCH higher than the confirmed cases.
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An Egyptian youth died Saturday 5/4/2008 of bird flu, bringing to 21 the number of fatalities since the virus first appeared in February 2006.
Mohamed Idris Hassan from Behira, 135km north of the capital Cairo, died on Saturday, the Health Ministry said.
The 19-year old was admitted to the Alexandria Fiver Hospital on April 3 suffering from high temperature, respiratory problems and pneumonia after contacting with infected birds.
8 April 2008
The Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt has announced a new human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
The case is a 19-year-old male from Kafr El-Dawar District, Behera governorate. He developed symptoms on 30 March was hospitalized on 31 March and died on 4 April. The case was confirmed as being infected with A(H5N1) by the Central Public Health Laboratories and by Cairo-based US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3) .
Investigations into the source of his infection indicate a history of contact with sick and dead poultry.
Of the 48 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 21 have been fatal.
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