EGYPT - Feb 16th - Feb 23rd

[Theresa42]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry

News from the village where the 5 year-old confirmed case, Muhammad Ahmed Suleiman, is from. Family bought 20 chicks, 18 of which died. Family/neighbors tested. Poultry in area culled....

Google-translated from Arabic:

After injuring the 24 bird influenza
The declaration of a state of emergency in the eastern village Alpteh
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health: The child's family, Mohamed Suleiman bought 20 chicks. The disease infected
To strengthen the town 13 thousand bird. Free
Feb 17, 2007

Timor-Abd-al-Ati Mohammed: Yahya said that the East-Majid governor been to declare a state of maximum emergency after the injury to the child pw D Suleiman Ahmed Sakr [Muhammad Ahmed Suleiman] "five years" from the village center Alpteh m seedlings market with the avian flu and there is a result the positive samples and transfer the injured to hospital, the child MUNCH Yeh Bakry Cairo and accountable for treatment.

The governor added that he was sending a team of health and medicine Alpes applauded and police bodies, the environment and the City Council to m the situation came down No. 24 Alpteh village and all corresponding brain mud direct of the situation at home and they grandfather, and his father, his brother, daughter and neighbors and notes that the health status of all c handheld.

Dr. Sayed Abul Khair Mahmoud, undersecretary of the Ministry of right e He moved to the village at the head of a medical team was withdrawn appointed AT survey hours and nose and Serme "blood samples" of them was sent the central labs to the ministry. In addition to a workshop to all indirect Almkhalten Yen case of the houses nearby. The 10 samples taken from the house the birds and 10 samples brother irrigation of birds nearby houses and clearing house situation, neighboring houses to the streets surrounding the house of the case e.

Attributed Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health of a child to a family the purchase of 20 chicks and breeding home. The child was dealing with. The death of 18 chickens and the virus moved from Aldja c injured him as the temperature was transferred to the felt Healed.

Added Dr. Attiya Mustafa, undersecretary of the Ministry of veterinary medicine that action had been taken immediate preventive villages e and the execution of 17 and Djajtin Hurchier duck and duck house Child The execution of 30 birds Bashch highest rooftops and village buried and dredging Balformalin places.

He noted that 13 thousand were vaccinated bird village since four e fortify months will be again today, "Saturday" Palm committees and the general situation is reassuring.

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/accedents/detail03.asp

[Theresa42]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry

Neighbor -- also a child -- of 5 year-old confirmed case also hospitalized...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

Bidding farewell the victim "13" to the bird flu in Al Fayyum and cutting off the electricity about the poultry shops in Monofiya
Feb 18, 2007

A village bid farewell to the wish of line in Al Fayyum yesterday, Nadia Mohamed Abdul Hafez's body that the victim became a number "13" to the bird flu.

And Abir Ali Khalaf, the student by the secondary stage and the victim daughter, said that she was hoping the recovery of her mother, after the doctors took the initiative in their reassurance about its health condition, but its departure news was faster, and its sister "Rasha" said: its [her] late mother was breeding poultry in the house, died all since 17 a day, and from her a proper did not remain a single duck that the health committee took, the one that attended to the house last Wednesday, and she explained that the disease symptoms appeared on their mother after the death of these birds.

And in the eastern [Ash Sharqiyah], the Health Department imposed the quarantine on the son village, after the reaching the certainty of the child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman injury from the age 5 years by the bird flu.

And doctor Ahmed Al Azzazi the Health Department deputy declared in the eastern [Ash Sharqiyah], about the detention of child Shaimaa Abdul Nabi Abdul Azim in the hospital of Zagazig fevers, for its injury by symptoms similar to the bird flu, and Shaimaa stays in the house neighboring child Mohamed's house that moved from the hospital of the Mashtool of the central market to Al Bakri's facility hospital in Cairo the day before yesterday.

And in Monofiya [Al Minufiyah], doctor Mostafa Al Maraghi the Ministry of Health deputy declared the cutting off of waters and electric current About the shops of selling the alive birds until they do not return to the exercise of their activity.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=48502&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16782

[Theresa42]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

The authorities report that the neighbor of the 5 year-old positive case has tested neg -- at least on initial tests. They also deny that the 5 year old has died. Hat-tip to pugmom for finding this article!

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The Ministry of Health is denied the death of condition 22 is by the bird flu disease
Feb 18, 2007

The banishment of doctor Nasr Al Sayed the Ministry of Health undersecretary by the preventive sector Sunday is a validity what was announced around the death of child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman "5 years" from a center "Mashtool the market" Sharqiya Governorate and injured by the bird flu disease, confirming that the general child condition is stable and in an improvement.

And doctor Nasr said that the child was suffering last Wednesday [Feb 14] from a rise in the temperature and have been transferred to the hospital of Al Mrg chest and taking a sample took place from him and after the positivity of its injury was confirmed by the bird flu disease that its giving Al Tamiflou drug took place and it was transferred to Al Bakri's facility hospital last Friday where its condition settled.

And it's worth mentioning that that condition is the injury no. 22 injured by the disease since its appearance in Egypt in February from last year and until now and between these conditions 13 case was dead.

This comes in the time that the child analyses results suspect of their injury by the bird flu came in it "a passivity" [negative], where the child Shaimaa Abdul Nabi Abdul Azim left from Petite village in Sharqiya Governorate from the hospital of Zagazig fevers after she proved the analyses of the taken samples from them their passivity and their non injury are by the bird flu disease.

And doctor Sayed Abul Kheir the Ministry of Health and Population deputy by the eastern [Al Sharqiya] stated that this child has been detained in the hospital after the appearance of symptoms on her that resembles the bird flu symptoms during the examination operation of the contacts to the child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman Saqr from the same village.

And doctor Abu Al-Khayr added that the analysis of samples took place from the earring [?] and the nose to all of the contacts to the child and have came all a negative to the disease.

And the Ministry of Health has declared last Friday the death of a woman after its injury by bird flu disease so that the condition no. 13 that was dead for its injury by the virus in Egypt.

And Nadia Abdul Hafez was "37 years" and she lives in a village they promised the line is the district of "Etsa" in Al Fayum Governate she entered the hospital of Al Fayyum fevers 12 February and she suffers from a rise in the temperature with the presence of a pneumonia, and have been transferred to Al Sadr's hospital by the Abbasid one day of 14 of the same month and its giving the necessary treatment took place just after its entrance of the hospital, and the investigation's holding of the epidemic investigation to all family individuals.

http://www.nilenews.tv/news/newsdetails.aspx?Show=1185

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16798

[Theresa42]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

From the article/machine-translation above:

...samples took place from the earring [?] and the nose...

That should read samples "from the throat and the nose."

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

2 more sus cases from Al Fayyum...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The suspicion of the injury of two women by the bird flu
Feb 19, 2007

Al Fayyum - The Fever Hospital in Al Fayyum received two women for the suspicion of their injury by the bird flu disease.

The two Mrs. are Samia Eissa Abdul Salam 36 of Srsna village in Tamiyah district and Sahar Mohamed Ghanem 27 years from Sonbat village in Al Fayyum district.

And the birds have dead in the women houses and injured by symptoms that resemble the bird flu and immediately he decided doctor Hussein Abu Taleb the Ministry of Health deputy in Al Fayyum decided their referral to the Fever Hospital and taking the preventive measures took place with the partnership of systems of bodies concerned in the veterinary medicine, the provision and the local units.

http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Politics/February/19/flu_fayoum.aspx

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16804

[HenryN]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02190702/H5N1_Egypt_Emerge_Converge.html

[HenryN]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

19 February 2007
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced a new human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection. The case was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory and by the US Naval Medical Research Unit No.3 (NAMRU-3).
The 5-year-old boy was admitted to hospital with symptoms on 14 February, and his condition remains stable. The boy was exposed to sick birds one week prior to the onset of symptoms. Contacts of the boy remain healthy and have been placed under close observation.
Of the 22 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 13 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_02_19/en/index.html

[HenryN]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

Update on case number 21 avian influenza and new confirmed case number 22
Egypt update (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office)
18 February 2007
Case Number: 21
Gender: Female
Age: 37 year
Governorate: Fayyoum
Prognosis: Died on the 16<SUP>th</SUP> of February 2007 (1:00 am)New confirmed human case of avian influenza on 15 February 2007

Case Number: 22
Gender: Male
Age: 5 years
Governorate: Sharqiah
Occupation: Child
Specimens: Throat swab and blood specimens; all specimens were tested positive for H5N1 in both the Central Public Health Laboratory and NAMRU-3. Samples were taken on the 15<SUP>th</SUP> of February 2007
Date of onset of symptoms: 14 February 2007
Clinical history: the patient was admitted to Shbeen Kanater fever hospital on 14 February 2007 and transferred to General Manshiet Al Bakri Hospital on the 15<SUP>th</SUP> of the same month. He is currently treated with Tamiflu.
Prognosis: His condition is stable and still alive.
Exposure status: the patient was exposed to backyard infected birds one week before the onset of symptoms. Direct and indirect contacts are still under surveillance. They are healthy until this date. The house was immediately disinfected following the confirmation of the case.

This brings up the total number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 22 with 13 deaths.

http://www.emro.who.int/

[Theresa42]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

Authorities try to contain bird flu
Feb 19, 2007

An outbreak of bird flu in Russia has been contained, Russian authorities said, while Egypt continues to battle the largest epidemic of the virus outside of Asia.

[*snip* - posted in Russia thread]

Epidemic

In Egypt, five-year old Mohamed Ahmed Soliman is the youngest sufferer and the 22nd person in the country to contract the virus.

He contracted the virus at home where his family keeps chickens, ducks and geese. But doctors say so far he's responding well to treatment.

Yossri Ragab, a doctor at Mansheyat Al-Bakry Hospital in Cairo, told Al Jazeera: "In severe cases like his, we use lots of antibiotics to prevent any minor microbic infections in the chest. He's better now."

The Egyptian government ensures farmers vaccinate their birds when they are one day old but the virus has still claimed 13 lives since the first cases were reported in Egypt in late 2004.

Most of those who have died kept birds at home, considered an Egyptian tradition in both urban and rural areas.

The practice has been banned by the government but the restriction is largely ignored by the public.

Amr El-Kahky, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Egypt, said: "It will take more than talk and awareness campaigns to convince people to get rid of the birds they keep. For many Egyptians living in poverty the birds are their only source of food and at the same time their greatest threat."

The H5N1 virus has caused 270 reported human infections worldwide since 2003 and as of last month had killed 164.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BCC647B3-5EEB-4D60-A904-6FEB197F07F9.htm

There's a photo of Mohamed Ahmed Soliman with the article. He doesn't look too sick -- he's sitting up wearing a mask -- no ventilator or anything.

[Anne]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

Hi theresa, the boy is globaly well.
I ve seen him at the French TV in a reportage ( because the french Minister for health went to Egypt this WE , and was in hospital )

[Theresa42]

Re: Egyptian 5-year-old contracts bird flu - ministry / neighbor [child] also hosp

Hi theresa, the boy is globaly well.
I ve seen him at the French TV in a reportage ( because the french Minister for health went to Egypt this WE , and was in hospital )

Good news that he isn't too sick! Thanks, Anne!

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

Another sus case in Qina...

Machine-translated from Arabic:

"The health" denies the death of a new victim by the bird flu ..And a detention 3 women in Al Fayyum and Qina
Feb 19, 2007

The Ministry of Health and Population yesterday denied, the death of child Mohamed Ahmed Solaiman "5 years", and he is the condition a number 22 in the injuries of bird flu, in the time that he visited in it the French Minister of Health a random is Bratran and the delegation accompanying him, the child is in Al Bakri's facility hospital yesterday.

And doctor Nasr Al Sayed said, the Ministry of Health deputy of the preventive medicine: the child is his condition a stable, and the treatment in the hospital after the confirmation of positivity of the samples taken from it days ago.

And the pious the mountain the French Minister of Health doctor Hatem the Minister of Health yesterday, and the French minister declared the approval of his government on an offering towards 30 million protective masks of [to] Egypt as an aid in any emergency situations for fighting the outbreak of the bird flu.

And in Al Fayyum, doctor Hussein Sophie Aboutalb, the Ministry of Health deputy, confirmed the detention of two women yesterday from two Srsna villages and Sonbat after the appearance of symptoms similar to the bird flu, and the certainty of their mixing the birds, and the samples analysis neighbour.

And in Qina the Egyptian doctor Mohamed Diaa confirmed the Ministry of Health deputy the detention of a woman from Al'aodayseya Village for its suffering from a rise in the temperature and an inflammation by by the throat after the certainty of its mixing the birds, and the veterinary medicine systems in Al-Qalyubia continue their chases of the operations of the circulation of the alive birds, where they could seize 300 violations, and the seizure took place on 26 thousand birds.

And in Damietta the departments of health and medicine and the veterinary ones and the police continue the house removal of Al Ashsh in the cities.

And doctor Ahmed Al Sayyed pointed on, the veterinary medicine deputy in the governorate, to the fortification [vaccination] of one million and 400 thousand house and running bird is the fortification of all of the house birds.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=48590&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16824

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

One new sus case in Al Gharbiyah (+ one we've already heard about). Also, a neg reported from Al Gharbiyah. Total number of sus cases to date in Al Gharbiyah now 300.

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The detention of two conditions for the suspicion of the bird flu in the district [Mahalla]
Feb 20, 2007

Tanta - Atef Deibis: Yesterday the detention of two new conditions took place inside fevers hospital and exported El-Mahalla El-Kubra to the clash in their injury by the bird flu disease and they are Shadia Ahmed Hammam "31 years" house lord [housewife] and resident in the height village El-Mahalla El-Kubra center and have been detained in the district chest hospital and Raafat Abu Ismail's satisfaction "20 years" a worker from district village behind Samanoud district and have been reserved by the district fevers after their feeling of a rise in the temperature and sharp pains in the bones. And taking a sample took place from their blood and throat touch for their sending to the central laboratories in the Ministry of Health and softened for the treatment the drug of "Al Tamiflou" as a preventive measure.

On the other hand the analysis results confirmed the passivity [negative] of Sattouta Mostafa Al Neanai's sample "35 years" from the village of Bltag belonging to Koutor center and that was detained in the district fevers hospital for the suspicion of its injury by the disease and the permission to it for getting took place from the hospital and hence the number of suspicion cases rise to 300 case in Gharbiya Governorate through the last period.

http://www.alwafd.org/v2/News/NewsDetail.php?

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16850

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

Sounds like all sus cases so far in February have tested neg -- apart from the people who tested pos, of course.

In this article, the total number of sus cases to date is reported as 2365. On Feb 11th (the first day we heard such a large number) the figure was 2,292 -- so that's 73 sus cases in the last couple of weeks, I guess.

Google-translated from Arabic:

Health: Negative results for the bird influenza infection in February
Feb 20, 2007

Cairo - MENA: Dr Nasr, first undersecretary Mr. Loza danger of Health and Population for preventive that all cases of a suspected cases of avian influenza infection that careful n nationwide by the results of the analysis labs pain Rkzih it negative.

He said Mr. Nasr said in a statement Tuesday that the total-h machines suspicion since the emergence of the disease in February Almad j and so far in 2365 amounted to a case of suspected were Alntae c all negative except 22 cases, the results have been positive and advertised in a timely manner.

He pointed out that 13 cases died of these cases, The recovered eight cases, With the situation currently reserved for a child in the hospital MUNCH Yeh Bakry. Explaining that his condition is similar to the cure.

http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Local/february/20/birdflu.aspx

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16884

[Theresa42]

Re: Egypt - Tracking, News - Human Feb 10+

Hat-tip, pugmom! 5 new sus cases...

2 sus cases in Qina: Fattah (42) and Ghada Ashraf Mahmoud (10) -- wonder if they're related?

2 sus cases in Al Gharbiyah (Western): Badriyah Hamid Talha (55) and Mohammad Ashraf (16)

1 in Al Minufiyah: Ozh Ghani Dehashan (55)

Google-translated from Arabic:

The detention of five cases in Qena, Menoufia, Bank [Mahallah, Al Gharbiyah] of injured symptoms similar to bird flu
February 20, 2007
Mohammed Hamdi Mahmoud Menshawi, and just Durra

Viral detained hospitals in the area and Qena, Ashmoun. Yesterday, five cases of infected symptoms similar to influenza Altio in Qena, Viral woman detained Hospital Fattah 42 years wa built Ghada Ashraf Mahmoud 10 years symptoms of infection similar to the avian flu, after the death of a number of poultry Pmenzhama in a Hmeidat the body of the city of Qena, Said.

Mohammad Zia Egyptian Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Qena the range Rayya took samples of cases to be sent to labs in central Cairo.

In Western [Al Gharbiyah] detained two Mahala pathogenesis of infection the symptoms similar to bird flu, two Badriyah Hamid Talha 55 from an estate "Ha dead S." in Smnod, Shawl and Mohammad Ashraf 16 years Garshin of in Tanta, said. Izzat Khalil director of the hospital that cases suffer from the TR Tva in the heat and inflammation of the throat and asthma, the samples taken them with the grant Automatic Altamevl [Tamiflu].

In Lower detained pathogenesis of Ashmoun Ozh Ghani Dehashan is 55 years on Kafr Zlabiah in Ashmoun Lalla harvest similar symptoms of the disease.

He said Dr. Mustafa Excerpts Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health maintaining that he had been taking samples from the patient for examination and camels G. competent bodies to move to the place of residence of the p JPY Almkhalten of them, It birds found in the home.

Dr. Abdul Hamid received Abohibh Director medicine Albee Terje governorates of communications Maher Fathi Abochamh villages e Shtanov in Ashmoun Benfouk eight of the total 15 poultry pen e dairy at his home,

Turning team of agriculture and health and medicine Baytar j, The sampling of the birds dead and sent to the Mam l central birds dead and buried in the cemetery healthy and execution of birds live remaining after sampling.

http://12.47.45.221/article.aspx?ArticleID=48713&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16951