Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

[FluBossie]

Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

HLT-EGYPT-BIRD FLU
Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

CAIRO, March 10 (KUNA) -- The 24th human case infected with bird flu was recorded Saturday, when an Egyptian child was diagnosed positive of the disease this evening by health officials.

Mohammad Ibrahim, four, of al-Daqhalia governorate north of the capital Cairo, was suffering from high temperature when admitted to hospital, as his tests came positive of the avian influenza, Egyptian health ministry said in a statement.

Thirteen human death cases were reported since the virulent virus infiltrated in Egypt in February 2006, in addition to substantial economic loses suffered by poultry business.

Since the virus re-emerged in Asia in 2003, outbreaks have been confirmed in around 50 countries and territories, according to data from the World Organization for Animal Health.

The virus has killed 168 people since 2003, according to World Health Organization (WHO). Countries with confirmed human deaths are: Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Laos, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. (end) bna.

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http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=960088

[Theresa42]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

As posted by FluBossie above, another 4 year old from Nabarouh district, Ad Daqahliyah governorate, confirmed with H5N1. Hat-tip to pugmom for finding this article!

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The Ministry of Health the 24 condition injury by the bird flu disease confirms
March 10, 2007

Saturday the twenty fourth human injury by the bird flu disease was confirmed, and she [he] is to a child called Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim (4 years) from Nabarouh district Dakahlia Governate.

And a statement of the Ministry of Health explained that the condition entered Mansoura chest hospital on current 8 March, and he suffers from a rise by the temperature with a seepage and its giving the necessary treatment has taken place. And the statement added that the neighbours of the work of the epidemic investigation of all family members, pointing out that it takes place the follow-up of condition through a group of the specialized children professors in Al Bakri's facility hospital.

The worth mentioning is that the bird flu disease has caused the death of 13 conditions since the emergence of the disease in Egypt before a year and the death cases were resulting from mixing the victims to birds that was brought up in house barns so that I orphan in them the consideration of the health conditions.

http://www.nilenews.tv/news/newsdetails.aspx?Show=1877

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18408

[sharon sanders]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

Thanks Pugmom.

[HenryN]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

Egyptian 4-year-old tests positive for bird flu

Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:44AM GMT
CAIRO (Reuters) - A 4-year-old Egyptian boy has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 24th human case in the most populous Arab country, health ministry and World Health Organisation officials said on Sunday.
A health ministry official said the boy had contracted the disease after coming into contact with infected household birds. He was in "good condition," the official said.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1113445620070311

[Laidback Al]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

Saturday the twenty fourth human injury by the bird flu disease was confirmed, and she [he] is to a child called Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim (4 years) from Nabarouh district Dakahlia Governate.

The child is from the same district as the most recent confirmed case, 4 year old Sara Al Sayed Borhan.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_03_01/en/index.html

[Niko]

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A few more details...

(Adds details, quotes) By Alaa Shahine CAIRO, March 11 (Reuters) -

A 4-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the deadly bird flu virus, bringing to 24 the number of Egyptians who have tested positive for the disease, Health Ministry and World Health Organisation officials said on Sunday.

The ministry said Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim from the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia had fallen ill with the H5N1 virus after coming into contact with infected poultry. "He is in a good condition," Amr Kandeel, head of communicable disease control at the ministry, told Reuters.

Hassan el-Bushra, regional adviser for communicable disease surveillance for the World Health Organisation, said Ibrahim had started to show symptoms on Wednesday and was hospitalised a day later with a high fever. He was receiving the antiviral drug Tamiflu. "We do not wish illness to anyone but we are happy that people are reporting symptoms earlier," Bushra said.

Egypt has the largest known bird flu cluster outside Asia, with 13 deaths out of the 24 reported human cases. Officials have said the high mortality rate is partly because sufferers failed to report to hospitals fast enough after developing symptoms, either because they did not suspect bird flu or feared authorities would confiscate their poultry. Around five 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.

Bushra said Ibrahim came into contact with dead poultry in the first three days of March. The Health Ministry said in a statement his family was being tested for the deadly virus.

Bird flu initially caused panic across Egypt and did extensive damage to the poultry industry. The government has said poultry production has recovered to 2 million birds a day, the same level as before the outbreak.

(Additional reporting by Cynthia Johnston)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11136308.htm

[Theresa42]

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Boy tests positive for bird flu in Egypt
Published: Monday, 12 March, 2007, 09:29 AM Doha Time

CAIRO: A four-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the deadly bird flu virus, bringing to 24 the number of Egyptians who have tested positive for the disease, health ministry and World Health Organisation officials said yesterday.

The ministry said Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim from the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia had fallen ill with the H5N1 virus after coming into contact with infected poultry.

?He is in a good condition,? Amr Kandeel, head of communicable disease control at the ministry, said.

Hassan el-Bushra, regional adviser for communicable disease surveillance for the World Health Organisation, said Ibrahim had started to show symptoms on Wednesday and was hospitalised a day later with a high fever. He was receiving the antiviral drug Tamiflu.

?We do not wish illness to anyone but we are happy that people are reporting symptoms earlier,? Bushra said.

Egypt has the largest known bird flu cluster outside Asia, with 13 deaths out of the 24 reported human cases.

Officials have said the high mortality rate is partly because sufferers failed to report to hospitals fast enough after developing symptoms, either because they did not suspect bird flu or feared authorities would confiscate their poultry.

Around 5mn 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.

Bushra said Ibrahim came into contact with dead poultry in the first three days of March. The health ministry said in a statement his family was being tested for the deadly virus. Bird flu initially caused panic across Egypt and did extensive damage to the poultry industry. The government has said poultry production has recovered to 2mn birds a day, the same level as before the outbreak.

Previous cases of infection were usually accompanied by exposure to sick birds. Generally, if a person is infected, the Egyptian health ministry monitors the rest of the family members for signs of the disease.

Several weeks ago, the Egyptian government had suspected that a mutated strain of the virus with ?reduced susceptibility? to the Tamiflu vaccine had emerged.

Medical experts confirmed shortly afterwards that the virus had in fact not mutated to a new and more dangerous strain transmitted between humans.

- Agencies

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=137574&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

[Theresa42]

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4 year-old pos boy's father also sick -- hospitalized as a suspected case. Plus, 14 new sus cases in five different governorates -- Dakahlia, Al Gharbyiyah, Qina, Al Minufiyah and Al Qalyubia....

Machine-translated from Arabic:

Emergencies in "Dakahlia" after the stability of a child injury by "the bird flu" ..And 14 new suspicion conditions in five governorates
March 12, 2007

The fevers hospitals detained in four governorates yesterday 14 persons injured by symptoms similar to the bird flu, while the analyses proved the injury of a child from Mansoura by the disease, and the bird flu fighting institutions in Dakahlia raised the readiness degree, after the transfer of a positive condition to a child Mohamed Mahmoud claims Reham [aka Mohamed Mahmoud Barham] "5 years" [or 4 years] from Bahut Village Nabarouh district to Al Bakri's facility hospital in Cairo.

And its [his] mother Warda Hassan said that her child felt rise in the temperature, and its [his] grandmother accompanied him to the central hospital of Nabarouh, and when she informed the doctor of the presence of dead birds at them in the house that one of the nurses informed that they will inform of them, for being an injured and its grandson by the disease,

She hastened with the escape from the hospital, and it forced the child uncle into its taking and its grandmother to the hospital, and have been transferred to the Mansoura chest hospital, and the transfer of child to Al Bakri's facility hospital [children's hospital] has taken place, where the analyses proved yesterday its injury by the disease, while the detention of the father of the injured child took place for the suspicion.

And in the same context, a detention took place of 14 a conditions to the suspicion of its injury by symptoms similar to the bird flu is in the governorates of Dakahlia and the western ones [Al Gharbyiyah] and Monofiya, Qina and Al-Qalyubia.

And in Damietta, the discovery of a new focus [of poultry] injured by the bird flu took place in the disbelief of Arabs Fariskur center.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=50965&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18503

[Theresa42]

Possible relationship between 4 year olds?

...while the analyses proved the injury of a child from Mansoura by the disease, and the bird flu fighting institutions in Dakahlia raised the readiness degree, after the transfer of a positive condition to a child Mohamed Mahmoud claims Reham [aka Mohamed Mahmoud Barham] "5 years" [or 4 years] from Bahut Village Nabarouh district to Al Bakri's facility hospital in Cairo.

Note that the 4 year old girl (confirmed case) from Nabarouh district, Dakahlia, is Sara Al Sayed Barham:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=68470&postcount=23&highlight=Barham

Barham is not a last name in Egypt -- at least not as Westerners understand last names. In these cases, Barham should be the (first) name of each of the kids' paternal grandfather(s).

So, they might not be related and each just have a paternal grandfather named Barham -- definitely a possibility. Or, they could be cousins living in neighboring villages in/around Nabarouh.

[HenryN]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

>>Mohamed Mahmoud claims Reham [aka Mohamed Mahmoud Barham<<


So is Reham another spelling of Barham?

[Theresa42]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

>>Mohamed Mahmoud claims Reham [aka Mohamed Mahmoud Barham<<


So is Reham another spelling of Barham?

Yeah, that's right. Google translates the name as "Barham" whereas Sakhr translates it as "Reham" (or "by Reham") [Barham ... Ba rham ... By Reham...].

Sara's name via Google = Sarah Mr. Barham
Sara's name via Sakhr = Sara Al Sayed is by Reham

Mohamed's name via Google = Mohamed Mahmoud Barham
Mohamed's name via Sakhr = Mohamed Mahmoud is by Reham

The names written in the original Arabic are:

Sara = سارة السيد برهام
Mohamed = محمد محمود برهام

This -- برهام -- is Barham or 'by Reham'.

Here's an example of a translation where Sara's name came out 'Reham' (or 'by Reham'):

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=68870&postcount=1&highlight=Reham

[Theresa42]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

But remember -- Barham or Reham or whatever is not a surname.

Mohamed Mahmoud Barham = Mohamed son of Mahmoud son of Barham.

Barham, then, should be the first name of Mohamed's paternal grandfather.

Same should be true for Sara.

The question is, is it the same Barham or not?

[HenryN]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/03120701/H5N1_Nabarouh.html

[Theresa42]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

Barham = by Reham = Ibrahim, apparently!

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=70262&postcount=7&highlight=Ibrahim

The thing is, there are no (or not really) any vowels in the Arabic alphabet, so I can see how the machine-translators might have a problem.

The transliteration of "Barham" from Arabic is really just Brhm -- one has to fill in the vowels as best one can. So, you can get Barham -- by Reham -- and Ibrahim....

[Commonground]

Re: Four-year old marks 24th human bird flu case in Egypt

Are these 14 new suspected cases in addition to the 17 (?) last week?

Quote from Post #5 Egypt Diary:

A detention 17 cases symptoms similar to the bird flu
March 5, 2007