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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
Danfiq is halfway between Qina and Luxor on the Nile
Danfiq is halfway between Qina and Luxor on the Nile
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
Egyptian 10-year-old girl dies of bird flu virus
Sat 9 Jun 2007, 9:15 GMT
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By Cynthia Johnston
CAIRO, June 9 (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Egyptian girl who contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus died on Saturday, bringing the number of fatalities from the disease in the most populous Arab country to 15, the health ministry said.
The girl, identified as Mayyada Tuhami, is reported to have fallen ill on June 1 after coming into contact with infected household birds but did not enter hospital until roughly a week later, delaying potentially life-saving treatment.
Her case followed a nearly two-month warm weather lull in human bird flu cases in Egypt, where 35 people are known to have contracted the virus since it was first detected in Egyptian poultry in early 2006.
The Egyptian health ministry said in a statement that the girl, from the southern town of Qena, had been admitted to hospital on Thursday with a high fever and a pulmonary infection, and was put on an artificial respirator.
"She died at dawn on Saturday and is considered the 15th death from bird flu in Egypt," the statement said.
Bird flu did extensive damage to the country's poultry industry and the economy as a whole after its arrival in Egypt, which has more confirmed human bird flu cases than any other country outside of Asia.
Most of those who have fallen ill in Egypt were reported to have had contact with sick or dead household birds, primarily in northern Egypt where the weather is typically cooler than in the south.
But in a sign of a change in how the disease may be occurring in Egypt, all but two of the past 11 human cases have occurred in central or southern parts of the country.
Bird flu experts in Egypt have said they would typically expect fewer human cases of the disease during Egypt's sweltering summer months, and in 2006 there was a summertime lull in human cases between May and October.
Experts fear that the bird flu virus might mutate or combine with the highly contagious seasonal influenza virus and spark a deadly pandemic which could circle the globe and kill millions.
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. The government still finds it hard to enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
The high for tomorrow in Qena is forecast to be 109 F (cooling down to 96 by Wednesday)
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
Her case followed a nearly two-month warm weather lullIf 109 F is a lull....what's normal?The high for tomorrow in Qena is forcast to be 109 FComment
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
The lull was in cases (and associated with warm weather, which is also true for seasonal flu away from the equator).Originally posted by Commonground View PostComment
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
Bird Flu claims 10-year old child in Egypt, 15th victim
Health 6/9/2007 2:33:00 PM
CAIRO, June 9 (KUNA) -- A ten-year old Egyptian girl has been the country's 15th bird flu victim, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
Other 20 people have recovered since the virus hit the country.
The child was admitted into the Fever Hospital in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena on Thursday suffering high temperature and pneumonia after contact with sick birds, the Ministry spokesman Abdulrahman Shahin said.
The child, who was too ill to be moved to Cairo, was put on a ventilator on arriving at the hospital.(end) rg.msa KUNA 091433 Jun 07NNNN
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (96): EGYPT
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ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
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[1] Egypt: 35th case
Date: Fri 8 Jun 2007
Source: Microbes.info, Reuters report, Fri 8 Jun 2007 [edited]
<http://www.microbes.info/news/bird_flu.php>
Egypt: girl infected with bird flu according to MOH and WHO
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CAIRO: A 10 year old girl from southern Egypt has been infected with the
deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, and is in "very critical" condition, a World
Health Organization (WHO) official said on Friday [8 Jun 20007]. "There is
a new human case just reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH). She is a 10
year old female. She has a history of contact with backyard birds," said
John Jabbour, an official with WHO in Cairo.
This fresh infection brought the number of human cases of avian influenza
[H5N1] in Egypt to 35, of whom 14 have died. Egypt's state news agency MENA
reported that the girl, from the southern town of Qena, was in hospital on
a respirator.
The disease first hit Egypt in 2006 and did extensive damage to the poultry
industry and the economy as a whole. Egypt has the highest number of
confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia. Most of those who fell ill
were reported to have had contact with sick or dead household birds,
primarily in northern Egypt. But the government still finds it hard to
enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.
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communicated by:
ProMED-mail rapporteur Mary Marshall
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[2] Egypt: 15th death
Date: Sat 9 Jun 2007
Source: Reuters Foundation AlertNet, Sat 9 Jun 2007 [edited]
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09359169.htm>
Egypt: 10 year old girl dies of bird flu virus infection
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A 10 year old Egyptian girl who contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus died on
Saturday [9 Jun 2007], bringing the number of fatalities from the disease
in the most populous Arab country to 15, the health ministry said. The girl
is reported to have fallen ill on 1 Jun 2007 after coming into contact with
infected household birds but did not enter hospital until roughly a week
later, delaying potentially life-saving treatment.
Her case followed a nearly 2 month warm weather lull in human bird flu
cases in Egypt, where 35 people [including this 10 year old girl - Mod.CP]
are known to have contracted the virus since it was 1st detected in
Egyptian poultry in early 2006.
The Egyptian health ministry said in a statement that the girl, from the
southern town of Qena, had been admitted to hospital on Thursday [7 Jun
2007] with a high fever and a pulmonary infection, and was put on an
artificial respirator. "She died at dawn on Saturday and is considered the
15th death from bird flu in Egypt," the statement said.
Bird flu did extensive damage to the country's poultry industry and the
economy as a whole after its arrival in Egypt, which has more confirmed
human bird flu cases than any other country outside of Asia. Most of those
who have fallen ill in Egypt were reported to have had contact with sick or
dead household birds, primarily in northern Egypt where the weather is
typically cooler than in the south. But in a sign of a change in how the
disease may be occurring in Egypt, all but 2 of the past 11 human cases
have occurred in central or southern parts of the country.
Bird flu experts in Egypt have said they would typically expect fewer human
cases of the disease during Egypt's sweltering summer months, and in 2006
there was a summertime lull in human cases between May and October. Experts
fear that the bird flu virus might mutate or combine with the highly
contagious seasonal influenza virus and spark a deadly pandemic which could
circle the globe and kill millions.
Around 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. The government still finds it hard to enforce
restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.
[byline: Cynthia Johnston]
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communicated by:
ProMED-mail rapporteur Mary Marshall
[Up to the present the Egyptian Ministry of Health has had considerable
success in preventing death by prompt administration of antivirals. The
delay in hospitalisation may have contributed to the unfortunate death of
this young girl.
A map of Egypt showing the location of Qena in the southern part of the
country is available at: <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/egypt.gif>.
- Mod.CP]
[see also:
Avian influenza, human (90): China, WHO 20070604.1809
Avian influenza, human (89): Viet Nam 20070602.1788
Avian influenza, human (88): Indonesia 20070601.1771
Avian influenza, human (87): Indonesia, WHO 20070531.1755
Avian influenza, human (86): Indonesia 20070531.1753
Avian influenza, human (85): China, WHO 20070530.1743
Avian influenza, human (84): China 20070527.1699
Avian influenza, human (62): China, Egypt, WHO 20070331.1103
Avian influenza, human (61): China, Indonesia 20070329.1080
Avian influenza, human (58): Egypt, China (Hong Kong) 20070326.1046
Avian influenza, human (55): H9N2, China (Hong Kong SAR) 20070320.0975
Avian influenza, human (46): China 20070304.0752
Avian influenza, human (44): China, Egypt, WHO 20070301.0732
Avian influenza, human (43): China, Egypt 20070228.0718
Avian influenza, human (07): Indonesia, China WHO 20070110.0109]
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, in critical condition
New Confirmed Human Case of Avian Influenza in Qena Governorate
8 June 2007
Case number: 35
Reported on : 8 June 2007
The Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt, has officially reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza on 8 June 2007. The case is a female child aged 10 years old from Qena Governorate. The date of onset of symptoms is 1 June 2007 and admitted to Luxor International Hospital on 6 June 2007 where she was put on Oseltamivir (Tamiflu). During that day her condition was critical showing bilateral pneumonia and she was put on ventilator. The case has a history of contact with backyard birds.
The girl died on the 9<SUP>th</SUP> of June 2007.
This brings up the total number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 35 with 15 deaths.
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, dies
Just for comparison, the last case of bf in Egypt last year/season was 75 year-old Zeinab Mohamed Mahmoud from Al Minyah governorate in central Egypt. She died on May 18, 2006. (Then it was quiet all summer until October.)...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Machine-translated from Arabic:
The 15 condition death by the bird flu disease to an Egyptian child that was injured on Thursday
June 9, 2007
Cairo - أ ش أ - The Saturday fifteenth condition was dead between the bird flu patients and she is the child Mayyada Tohami's wounds "10 years" from its critics position Qena governorate.
And doctor Abdul Rahman Shahin the spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population stated that the condition has entered the hospital of Qina fevers entered Thursday and she suffers from a rise in the temperature and a pneumonia after its mixing to birds suspected in their injury by the bird flu disease, and their [her] condition was critical then have been referred to the international hospital of Luxor after the impossibility of its transfer to Cairo for the lag of its condition where its putting on the respirator took place.
It's worth mentioning that the conditions total injured by the bird flu disease is since its appearance in February from Last year until now 35 case reached from it 15 case was dead and 20 was cured.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, dies
The 10 yr-old who just died was from Danfiq in Qina governorate....
Google-translated from Arabic:
The death of an Egyptian girl with avian flu
June 9, 2007
Cairo: Medical sources announced today, Saturday, for the death of an Egyptian girl after illness bird flu, becoming the 15th victim of the disease since it was discovered in Egypt last year.
He said Qena Governor Magdi Ayoub, in a press statement, Mayyada Tuhami, which is ten years old, infected birds, which grew up at her home in the village of Dnafiq [Danfiq].
He added that the result of the examination, the girl Thursday, showed that it was carrying the virus that causes the disease is H5N1, was in critical condition since that day.
Since the appearance of avian flu first time last year in Egypt, was discovered 35 cases infected with the disease, and of these cases 15 persons were exposed to the death, the most recent Mayyada Tuhami.
Egypt is one of the most non-Asian affected by the virus that causes the deadly bird flu disease.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Suspected case from Mayada's village...
EGYPT: Ten-year-old girl becomes 15th bird flu victim
DUBAI, 10 June 2007 (IRIN) - Ten-year-old Mayada Tohami has become the youngest person in Egypt to die of bird flu since the first human case was recorded in the country in March 2006. Hers was the 15th death of the 35 human cases reported to date.
Mayada, from Naqada village in Upper Egypt?s Qena province, died on Sunday morning from the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus, officials reported. A spokesperson from Egypt?s health ministry confirmed that she was the youngest person to die of bird flu in the country to date. The previous youngest was a 15-year-old girl who died on 10 April.
Though Mayada first felt symptoms of the illness on 1 June, she was not admitted to hospital until 6 June because of poor diagnoses.
"In terms of diagnosis, she went to four different private physicians before she was finally diagnosed. This issue [bird flu] needs more awareness and attention from doctors in the private sector," said Dr John Jabbour, International Health Regulations Officer and medical officer for Emergency Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO) Cairo.
Jabbour said that it is crucial for people to know the symptoms of bird flu and for doctors to recognise and treat those symptoms as early as possible to avoid any fatality. But bird culling campaigns and fines for having so-called ?backyard birds? ? domestic poultry ? have deterred many people from reporting the potentially deadly illness.
"The main problem in Egypt is that people are afraid of the national authorities. They are denying being exposed to H5N1 and backyard birds, which delays the treatment and causes deaths," Jabbour said.
Another person from the same village as Mayada is suspected of having contracted the H5N1 strain of avian flu. Somaya Hassan, 25, has been taken to Hemayat Hospital in Qena, according to Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper.
Incidences of avian flu in humans are typically treated in Egypt with the antiviral drug Tamiflu. Health officials stress that the treatment?s success is highest if the patient reports the illness as soon as symptoms emerge.
"In villages, people continue to give each other gifts as part of the culture. These gifts are in the form of poultry, ducks and so on, which become backyard birds. And this is another problem," said Jabbour.
Earlier this year, Egypt authorities launched a major campaign to vaccinate backyard birds, which are the most common route of transmission of avian flu from animals to humans. In addition, the government has boosted its efforts to make the public aware of the risks of keeping poultry in the home. Although cases continue to be reported, the campaign appears to be limiting fatalities.
Health officials remain vigilant for signs that the virus could evolve and be transmitted between humans, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions.
Naqada (pretty near to Danfiq): http://tinyurl.com/ywsm6p...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Re: Egyptian 10-year-old girl infected with bird flu, dies
Father (a teacher) denies daughter had contact with birds, although poultry in the house reportedly died ca. two weeks ago....
Machine-translated from Arabic:
A family (Mayyada) is the bird flu victim it accuses a hospital (its critics) in the failure in its treatment
June 11, 2007
Qina - Amir Teller: Amid atmospheres from the sadness the peoples of the hamlet of Abul Naga father bid farewell belonging to Hager region by its critics are child Mayyada Tohami's body garage the student by the primary third grade the victim no. 15 to the bird flu and that was dead in Luxor International Hospital the day before yesterday. Mayyada's family accused the officials in Qina of the neglect and the carelessness in its treatment. Her father, Tohami Hamid's garage 47 years of employee by the teacher of the hamlet of the preparatory villages [Naga villages prep school], said: that his daughter passed by a bitter trip during her treatment that started with its critics Central Hospital where she stayed 3 days and have been aided by primitive medicines.
Then the hospital then transferred her to a private clinic in Qena City and have been transferred to the Qina Fevers Hospital from which sample was taken and sent it to Cairo then they transferred her thereafter to the International Hospital of Luxor where her condition deteriorated there and the hospital administration refused her transfer to Cairo to the non presence of prepared cars.
And its father said: Mayyada his smallest daughter within her seven brothers was not mixing with the birds. And he added that the tragedy started two weeks where 3 birds died ago and its wife threw it outside the house. And came due to the analyses so that it confirms that it is injured by the bird flu by a ratio of 70% and 30% a pneumonia and its uncle Gaber Raslan Hamid 32 accused doctors year in its critics hospital with the carelessness and the failure in the disease diagnosis from the beginning and its condition deteriorated and she died Saturday dawn in the International Hospital of Luxor and there were not therapeutic services in the hospital.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Press releases Dep of Health, June 11 2007
Girl dies of bird flu
A ten-year-old girl died of bird flu, marking the 15th fatality of the H5N1 virus.
The Health Ministry said in a statement that the girl was admitted to Qina Fever Hospital on Thursday.
The girl, who was identified by the paper by her first name as Maida, was suffering from bird flu-like symptoms including high temperature and pneumonia.
Blood tests proved positive for the H5N1 strain. Maida is the 35th bird flu case in the country since it first out broke in February 2005. Egypt is one of the worst-hit countries by bird flu.
35th Human bird Flu Case Detected in Egypt
A new human bird flu case was detected in egypt on Friday, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin affirmed yesterday evening.
A 10-year girl from Naqada township in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena was admitted to hospital after developing bird flu-like symptoms, Shahin said.
The bad condition of the girl was behind the failure of moving her to Cairo, he added.
The victim, who is believed to have contacted infected birds, brought to 35 the number of human bird flu cases in Egypt, according to the spokesman. Fourteen of them died and 20 recovered, he said.
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