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Re: EGYPT - Kuwait press: bird flu in Cairo and Sohaj
It's amazing how the news can change in a week. I mean, compare, the below two statements 10 days apart. Let me just say, guys and girls, the situation in Africa is not looking good right now, and it is likely mirrored in other targets of Siberian bird migration like India and Europe--though not being confirmed. Last year, we started getting hints that bird flu had arrived in Africa on October 9th as seen by the below quote of mine, but it was not confirmed officially until January or February. It is only September 12th, and new breakouts are already occurring in the Nile River Valley again, probably from reintroductions.
September 2nd: Egypt has anew raised the level of preparedness to confront possibilities of bird flu comeback especially after four new cases were reported in Cairo and Sohaj governorates.
September 12th: The highest committee of the bird flu declared with the presidency of doctor Hatem the mountain the Minister of Health the declaration of the maximum state of emergency in the hospitals and the departments of the chest diseases and the fevers in the health units for the confrontation of the danger of the bird flu....
The meeting revealed the appearance of 19 foci injured by the bird flu virus in the farms and the house birds in the governorates.
It's amazing how the news can change in a week. I mean, compare, the below two statements 10 days apart. Let me just say, guys and girls, the situation in Africa is not looking good right now, and it is likely mirrored in other targets of Siberian bird migration like India and Europe--though not being confirmed. Last year, we started getting hints that bird flu had arrived in Africa on October 9th as seen by the below quote of mine, but it was not confirmed officially until January or February. It is only September 12th, and new breakouts are already occurring in the Nile River Valley again, probably from reintroductions.
Originally posted by vaffie
On October 9th, it was confirmed that farms in the Benghazi area of northeastern coast of Libya had bird flu, according to govt documents obtained by the Libyan media.
On October 18th, dead birds and eels were reported at an important migratory bird lake in northeastern Algeria.
Beginning in October and continuing for a couple months, several hundred camels died in northeastern Mali on the border with Algeria for unknown reasons. Being investigated. No further information.
Around October 20th, cormorants and a buzzard were found dead on the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Simultaneously, government officials banned all live poultry sales and said poultry raising was now illegal--eat em or lose em.
On October 23rd, Al Anbaa news reported 40 dead birds in southern Kuwait coast from possible bird flu.
October 25th had the first report from southern Yemen: "Large numbers of chicken perished in south Yemen triggering fears bird flu, reports said Monday. The Daily al-Ayam reported an unidentified disease is spreading quickly among birds in the province of Kabita, and cats and dogs that ate the dead birds also perished. The paper said sick chickens stopped eating and [?]" (http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2005/10/).
On October 27th, chickens died suddenly in Hora in the Northern part of the Negev Desert. Investigation was made into it, but no further information given.
On October 30th, on the island of St. Helena off the coast of South Africa, 68 chickens in three different parts of the island died suddenly--"all with the same symptoms" (not described). Photographs were sent to South Africa for an explanation--nothing further has been heard about it either from South Africa or St. Helena.
http://www.falklandnews.com/public/...=3543&source=11
On October 18th, dead birds and eels were reported at an important migratory bird lake in northeastern Algeria.
Beginning in October and continuing for a couple months, several hundred camels died in northeastern Mali on the border with Algeria for unknown reasons. Being investigated. No further information.
Around October 20th, cormorants and a buzzard were found dead on the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Simultaneously, government officials banned all live poultry sales and said poultry raising was now illegal--eat em or lose em.
On October 23rd, Al Anbaa news reported 40 dead birds in southern Kuwait coast from possible bird flu.
October 25th had the first report from southern Yemen: "Large numbers of chicken perished in south Yemen triggering fears bird flu, reports said Monday. The Daily al-Ayam reported an unidentified disease is spreading quickly among birds in the province of Kabita, and cats and dogs that ate the dead birds also perished. The paper said sick chickens stopped eating and [?]" (http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2005/10/).
On October 27th, chickens died suddenly in Hora in the Northern part of the Negev Desert. Investigation was made into it, but no further information given.
On October 30th, on the island of St. Helena off the coast of South Africa, 68 chickens in three different parts of the island died suddenly--"all with the same symptoms" (not described). Photographs were sent to South Africa for an explanation--nothing further has been heard about it either from South Africa or St. Helena.
http://www.falklandnews.com/public/...=3543&source=11
September 2nd: Egypt has anew raised the level of preparedness to confront possibilities of bird flu comeback especially after four new cases were reported in Cairo and Sohaj governorates.
September 12th: The highest committee of the bird flu declared with the presidency of doctor Hatem the mountain the Minister of Health the declaration of the maximum state of emergency in the hospitals and the departments of the chest diseases and the fevers in the health units for the confrontation of the danger of the bird flu....
The meeting revealed the appearance of 19 foci injured by the bird flu virus in the farms and the house birds in the governorates.
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