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Using both of those, I get -- 6 suspected cases mentioned, but 2 we already have -- so that's 4 new suspected cases. Is that right?:
Al Sadr's Hospital Mansoura - Fatma/Fatima Fathi Al Mahdi (F)
Banha Fevers - Mohamed Talaat Mostafa Aboualfdl (3M) -- one of the "no names" reported earlier? Or another admission to Banha?
"My wedding procession" [Abo_ak_i Hospital pathogenesis Zfti] Fevers Hospital - Sara Adel Aboushadi (child)
Damanhur Fevers - Mohamed Khalil Abdul Qawi
El-Mahalla El-Kubra Fevers - Hani (34) and "khan guidance" -- that hospital is in Al Gharbiyah and that's the policeman and the child, Huda Khaled -- so we already have them.
Fatma/Fatima above sounds like confirmed victim:
Fatma Fathi Mohamed (25F) - d. Dec 30, 2007 -- Dikirnis, Ad Daqahliyah governorate
So, I'm not going to count her as a suspected case. (Mansoura is in Ad Daqahliyah governorate)
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
I have these 6-10 new suspected cases to add to the list from yesterday. I'm not going to update the list until after I check the news for today. Do these sound right?:
Sharkia
Jan 03: Husam Muhammad (4M) - from the village centre Alkhis Abouhmad
Al Qalyubia
Jan 02: Mohamed Talaat Mostafa Aboualfdl (3M) - in Banha Fevers - one of the 2 (3?) mentioned above?
Al Gharbiyah
Jan 02: Sara Adel Aboushadi (child) from "My wedding procession" [Abo_ak_i Hospital pathogenesis Zfti]
Jan 03: 6 (3 to 6 new) unnamed cases in Mehalla Hospital - high temps & "bone pain"
Qena
Jan 03: 4 month old child
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
... the injury ratio by the bird flu disease reached in 2007 about 25 an injury [25 confirmed cases in 2007] -- and the suspicion conditions reached about 143 case from them 5 injuries and four conditions of deaths [i.e. the recent group of 5 cases with 4 deaths] -- compared with 18 injuries in 2006 and most of the injuries were in the females.
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According yesterday WHO update, which adds the most recent fatal cases (25 years old female from Dekerns District, Dakahlyah Governorate, 36 years old female from Menof District, Menofia Governorate, http://www.who.int/csr/don/2008_01_02/en/index.html), cumulative number of cases and deaths for 2007 is 25 (8 deaths, including the above two), and from 2006 is 43 (18 deaths).
Dakahlia: 6 new unnamed sus cases in Sadr [Chest] Hospital, Mansoura Ismailia: 2 new unnamed sus cases in Sadr Ismailia
Menoufiya: 1 new? unnamed case in "salt hospital" Menoufiya
Al Gharbiyah: 6 unnamed sus cases to hospital in Mahala -- I think we prolly already have these Qena: 1 unnamed sus case -- prolly the infant
Google-translated from Arabic:
16 cases of detention on suspicion of being infected with avian influenza
Jan 3, 2007
Salem wrote Mitwalli, Ghada Adel patron Anna, Hani Abdel-Rahman
Rose on the government and its state of emergency in the provinces, to cope with bird flu, which has returned strongly. Hospitals have detained 16 cases in 5 provinces, were suspected of being infected with the disease. Dr. Hatem and threatened mountain, Minister of Health, to take "violent actions", against any man who is careless about the application instructions for combating the disease.
Detained Hospital Dietetic Mahala 6 cases were suspected of being infected with bird flu, and detained Sadr Hospital in Mansoura 6 other cases, detained in hospital in Sadr Ismailia two other cases, and detained Hospital Qena case, in addition to another case in a hospital salt Menoufiya, were sent samples of infected blood factor and the central Ministry of Health for analysis.
The provinces: Aswan and Damietta and Port Said and Damietta and the city of Luxorraises the state of emergency, and to take preventive action to prevent the spread of the disease.
Commissioned Amin Abaza Agriculture Minister General Authority for Veterinary Services prepare a comprehensive inventory of poultry farms, which violate safety norms vital, as a prelude to taking the necessary action to the immediate closure of them. With Dr. Hatem mountain, Minister of Health, that the government will begin to tighten their procedures to combat the disease, threatening to take "violent actions" against any man who is careless about in this matter.
He told Reuters: "happened kind of laxity and leniency, people imagine that the disease ended, when we tell them that the disease is endemic in Egypt, and will continue for several years."
The detention of 16 cases in 5 provinces of suspected avian influenza Basapthm
Wrote governorates - "Egyptian today: 3/1/2008
Detained hospitals of the Ministry of Health 16 cases of suspected bird flu Basapthm disease, which rose at a time when the responsible state of emergency, and threatened Dr. Hatem mountain Minister of Health to take "violent actions" against any man who is careless about the application instructions for combating the disease.
He was detained Hospital Dietetic Mahala yesterday 6 cases of suspected bird flu infection, and detained Sadr Hospital in Dakahlia 6 cases, also detained in hospital salt Ismailia two other cases, and detained Hospital Dietetic Qena another case for the same reason, and detained Hospital Dietetic Menoufiya another case.
The governor Damietta, Ason lifting of the state of emergency in the two provinces to prevent the spread of disease and avoid new victims.
In Port Said decides executed 25 thousand birds after detecting foci Clark, as decided vaccination million birds in Aswan, 50 thousand in Luxor has been the removal of 150 nests, and the execution of 12 thousand chickens in Qaliubia.
Western [Al Gharbiyah] detained in hospital salt Mahala on the ten-year, Secretary of police [police officer] from the village of Ameriya; Hoda Khalid Saeed bovine year and 8 months from the village of Aldoakhlih; Aida Abdul Aziz, 28, from the village of Al Abualli; Ahmed Mohammed Salim, 24, from the Republic; and Hatem Mohammed Jamil, 52 years, all of Mahala and a girl allegedly saw Mohammed Shihata, 8 months, from the village of Mit Taha of the Centre mmas.
Said Dr. Hamdi Alinveri, director of the hospital had been taking samples from the patients for analysis in the laboratories of the Ministry of Health, while the security forces surrounded the house of Jean control Creative Marketing for birds and examine existing neighbouring houses.
In Dakahlia received hospital livelihood Mr. Sadr mediator, 40 years old, from the Centre for nitrogen; and Fatma Mohammed Saeed, 45, from Mansoura; Mohamed Fathi, whose 13 years of Damietta, the Abdulrahman Abdulrahman, 9 years, and Imad Bader Abdulrahman, aged 40, from the village stone pillars,
Ibrahim Abdel Razek, 50, from the village of Kom Derby infected temperature rise due illness avian influenza result incapable dead birds in their homes.
Said Dr Mr. and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Being that the cases were detained on suspicion only, has been sure of infection, he pointed out sampling of them and sent to central laboratories at the Ministry of Health for analysis.
In Ismailia detained Hospital dietary me SM Ezbet of Eid of the village on Eid; Salma Ahmed Hussein, from the village of painted Daryll high temperature and pneumonia, and headache, were taking samples for analysis in their labs ministry.
Dr. Mohamed Al-Sharkawi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health maintaining a state of emergency in all hospitals maintain, pointing to the lack of cases so far.
In Qena detained Hospital dietary child Mohamed Khaled Adli, 4 months on suspicion of injury, and the governor said Maj. Gen. Magdi Ayoub that the child is suffering from high temperature after death Drjajh at his home, pointing out that he was taking a sample of the child for analysis in laboratories ministry.
In Menoufiya detained Hospital Dietetic Shebin Mound hopes Mr. Sabbagh, 30, from the village "Dkma" on suspicion of being infected, said Dr. Atta, Hisham Youssef, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health to replace diseased owns a grocery store in the village and raising chickens in her home, pointing out that he was taking samples for analysis.
In Damietta, the governor, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei Fathi, a state of emergency after the death of Atwah Hanim Ibrahim Amara affected the safety of the disease, and El Baradei stressed to the heads of cities and towns, health, veterinary medicine and the environment need to tighten controls on the market and to prevent the circulation of living birds, and monitor the entrances and exits to prevent the entry of preserving birds.
In Port Said, the supreme committee to combat the disease foci in the discovery of the villages Radwan Cape south of the city, took the campaign of health, veterinary medicine, environment and admonishing Supply collect dead birds and the patient is in bifocal to destroy.
Said Dr. Mustafa Musa, director of veterinary medicine, the Governor Major General Mustafa Kamel decided to form a committee to determine the bird home to be destroyed, which amounts to 25 thousand birds, including chickens, ducks and pigeons.
In Luxor, decided to Dr. Samir Farag Chairman of the Supreme Council of the city, the formation of a committee headed by the secretary-general and directors of the membership of Health and veterinary medicine, agriculture and the environment to immunize 50 thousand birds.
In Aswan, the governor, Major General Samir Youssef declaration of a state of emergency, and to prevent the circulation of living birds in the market while allowing the education in the homes of the villages only, pointing to maintain approval to change the activity of bird stores, in the interests of owners.
Dr. Al-Hamad Abu Dahi, director general of veterinary medicine, it has been decided to launch a campaign to vaccinate birds in the house at the level of governance for a period of 3 months, pointing out that the vaccination campaign targeting million birds, and said he was providing 600 thousand doses of the vaccine for this purpose.
In Qalubia, announced Arafa STEVENSON city head Shebin Kanater, that the removal of 150 nests inside apartments and houses in the town and villages of pointing out that the execution of 12 thousand chickens in a farm in the village after Zhoyen proven her.
With Dr. Hatem mountain Minister of Health, that the government will begin to tighten their procedures to combat the disease, threatening to take violent action against any man who is careless about this issue, and he said to Reuters: a kind of laxity and leniency, people imagine that the disease ended when we tell them: that the disease is endemic in Egypt, and will continue for several years.
The minister pointed out that all the deaths that have occurred since the onset of illness three years ago is the result of poultry at home.
He urged doctors mountain to a questionnaire whether asylum-treatment are contacts birds, pointing out that deny people crowded birds for fear of them take these birds.
4 new sus cases -- 2 in Alexandria and 2 (mother & baby, I think) in Kafr Al Sheikh.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Suspicion of wounding 4 persons of Lake disease
Jan 3, 2007
Karem Guentoc lake:
4 persons were booking Lake Bhmyat Alexandria and Kafr El-Sheikh on suspicion of avian influenza infection are: Mahdi Abdul Aziz Mahmoud Ashour "43 years" and works in a poultry farms 68 kilometers along the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road was booked Hospital Dietetic Alexandria; Mohamed Mahmoud abdelhameed "20 years" and works one Stores birds reside Babis was booked Bhmyat Alexandria; and equity Mohamed Hammouda "32 years" homemaker and baby Amal Ibrahim Ghraib "in the year and a half" and the adjoining village Smjarat Barahmanih was Hdzhma Hospital Dietetic Kafr El-Sheikh.
Rose on the government and its state of emergency in the provinces, to cope with bird flu, which has returned strongly. Hospitals have detained 16 cases in 5 provinces, were suspected of being infected with the disease. Dr. Hatem and threatened mountain, Minister of Health, to take "violent actions", against any man who is careless about the application instructions for combating the disease.
Detained Hospital Dietetic Mahala 6 cases were suspected of being infected with bird flu, and detained Sadr Hospital in Mansoura 6 other cases, detained in hospital in Sadr Ismailia two other cases, and detained Hospital Qena case, in addition to another case in a hospital salt Menoufiya, were sent samples of infected blood factor and the central Ministry of Health for analysis.
The provinces: Aswan and Damietta and Port Said and Damietta and the city of Luxor raises the state of emergency, and to take preventive action to prevent the spread of the disease.
The above translation describes 16 new suspect cases in 5 governorates, which are in addition to the cases announced in the past few days (see satellite map). This dramatic rise increases pandemic concerns. Although Egypt has had a large number of suspect cases previously, the numbers generally track with seasonal flu and peak in March or April. The rise in suspect cases many be die in part to heightened awareness stemming from the dramatic increase in H5N1 on commercial farms and backyard holdings (see satellitle map), as well as the four deaths in the five confirmed cases which were recently announced.
As noted, samples have been sent to central labs for testing, and new confimed cases have not been announced since the beginning of the week, but there have been few announcements of patients testing negative.
H5 has been confirmed at a petting zoo in Israel, and the culling in Saudi Arabia has been extensive recently. It is likely that H5N1 is widespread in the Middle East, but thus far only Egypt has announced confirmed cases.
More information on the suspect cases, including negative results, would be useful.
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These 2 may be some of the unnamed in Al Qaliubiyah that we already have listed.
Google-translated from Arabic:
And the seizure of two women Bhmyat cows [Banha]
Jan 3, 2007
QALUBAIYA Majdi Rifai:
Been booking two women Hospital Dietetic cows injured on suspicion of avian influenza. For his. Al backed Under-Directorate of Health able to cases of Kafr thanked .. It has been sampling them for testing labs ministry.
Supreme Committee for the control of avian influenza headed Abaza:
Neglect of plantation owners and vaccinations corrupt .. Behind the emergence of new hotbeds
Education over houses in the city is banned .. And dissuasive sanctions for offenders
Jan 3, 2007
Follow-up: Iskandar Ahmad
The Supreme Committee for bird flu an important meeting last night headed by Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, and attend Dr. Hatem mountain Health Minister and Ambassador Ayman Fast and 6 governors and the meeting lasted about 5 hours building in the Ministry of Agriculture, after the meeting was to hold a press conference to respond to all queries.
Said Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation that the cause of the spread of avian influenza in the recent period due to the negligence of some owners of large farms and retreating from the vaccinations and follow the instructions, which required that applied before and the reason for inaction and neglect led to the emergence of new wells.
During a press conference that was to discuss issues in all its aspects and decides to return discipline to the sector and the control of the national wealth and that the governors authorized by the law with full force and vigour, closure of the farms violation.
The second points to the return of discipline is to prevent breeding birds in the cities and on the roofs of houses and urban areas will be the application of the law vigorously on violators in order not to be contact between birds and the public .. Thirdly tighten controls on poultry sellers, shops selling and slaughter.
He said Hatem mountain Minister of Health that there was no shift of the virus to humans and that all the casualties were injured, mostly in contact with farm has been the transmission of the disease from patient to patient, but the disease has been moved from contact with birds only.
Minister of Health attributed the cause of the spread of avian influenza that a large proportion of influenza vaccinations by corrupt .. He explained that human casualties only 5 cases .. The reason for the purchase of poultry infection from an unknown source, as well as citizens deal with infected birds.
The Minister of Health, although we consider this less state in the world in the incidence of disease bird flu although the disease was settled in Egypt and the percentage of recovery if reported a 100% recovery and appealed to the Minister of Health citizens immediately reporting any case.
He said Ayman saw spokesman Higher Committee for the control of avian influenza .. The Committee has taken several decisions immediately are:
- Repeated closure of any farm where the spread of the disease for a period of 6 months and that the farm fully accountable and personal safety of poultry transport, licensing, data and any violation is part of the conservative farm located in a jurisdiction being immediately.
- Tighten control of poultry production and be strict and decisive by the conservatives.
- The method of addressing the vaccine must be sound and not handling diseased poultry or transfer or dealing with them.
- Non negligence if the patient felt Almkhalt rise in temperature by going to the nearest hospital for treatment and speaks frankly about his condition.
He noted that the avian influenza virus has become endemic in Egypt, he appeared in the provinces of Dakahlia, West [Al Gharbiyah] and East [Sharkia], Giza and Beni Suef and Fayoum.
His most cases, the injuries were scattered among the women contacts of the disease and poultry farmer workers.
The danger is facing all and must unite and awareness in this regard, for which the Ministry of Information awareness programmes contracted avian influenza.
I have these 6-10 new suspected cases to add to the list from yesterday. I'm not going to update the list until after I check the news for today. Do these sound right?:
Sharkia
Jan 03: Husam Muhammad (4M) - from the village centre Alkhis Abouhmad
Al Qalyubia
Jan 02: Mohamed Talaat Mostafa Aboualfdl (3M) - in Banha Fevers - one of the 2 (3?) mentioned above?
Al Gharbiyah
Jan 02: Sara Adel Aboushadi (child) from "My wedding procession" [Abo_ak_i Hospital pathogenesis Zfti]
Jan 03: 6 (3 to 6 new) unnamed cases in Mehalla Hospital - high temps & "bone pain"
Here's the list I've come up with. Lemme know if anyone sees anything incorrect or missing (I'm not sure I've got the number from Qalyubia right...). There's a range of numbers for the suspected cases since in some instance we have reports without names so we don't know if they're dupes or not.
(Oh -- I alphabetized the governorates -- couldn't stand it anymore!)
Since Dec 25th I've got: 5 confirmed cases / 4 deaths
Between 46 - 48 suspected cases / 1 death / 1 (or 2?) tested neg (not counted)
SUMMARY OF CONFIRMED AND SUSPECTED CASES IN EGYPT SINCE DEC 25
5 Confirmed cases / 4 deaths
Oula Yunis Ali Mohamed (25F) - d. Dec 25, 2007 -- Beni Haroun, Beni Suef governorate
Attorh Hanim Ibrahim [aka Hanem Atwa Ibrahim] (50F) - d. Dec 31, 2007 -- Shatt `Ezbet el-Lahm, Damietta governorate
Nora Aboul Abbas Mohamed (21/22F) -- Barhim near Minuf city, Al Minufiyah
Fatma Fathi Mohamed (25F) - d. Dec 30, 2007 -- Dikirnis, Ad Daqahliyah governorate
Firdaus Mohamed Hadad (26F) - d. Dec 31, 2007 -- Al Minufiyah governorate
Between 46 - 48 suspected cases reported in the last week / 1 death / 1 (or 2?) tested neg (not counted)
Alexandria Governorate (3)
Dec 31 - Faten (23F)
Jan 03 - Mahdi Abdul Aziz Mahmoud Ashour (43M?) - poultry worker - Hospital "Dietetic" Alexandria
Jan 03 - Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Hameed (20M) - reside Babis
Beheira Governorate - (1)
Dec 30 - Mohamed Khalil Abdul Qawi (40M) - Ezbet "Notes", [Centre Kom Hamada] Kawm Hamadah
Beni Suef (1)
Jan 02 - Anwar Ali Sayyad (25M) [unemployed] from Shaweesh Ahnassa village
Cairo Governorate (1 neg?)
NEG? - Dec 31 - Salah Eddin Mohamed Ali (43M) - d. Dec 29 - Al Amiriyah - teacher - test results on man?/birds? reported to be neg on Jan 2
Dakahlia Governorate (6)
Jan 03 - Mr. Sadr mediator (40M) - from the Centre for nitrogen
Jan 03 - Fatma Mohammed Saeed (45F) - from Mansoura
Jan 03 - Mohamed Fathi (13) - of Damietta
Jan 03 - Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman (9M) - from the village stone pillars
Jan 03 - Imad Bader Abdul Rahman (40F?) - from the village stone pillars
Jan 03 - Ibrahim Abdel Razek (50M) - from the village of Kom Derby
Gharbiyah/Al Gharbiyah (7)
Jan 01 - "34 years" policeman (Ali El-Ashry per flubergasted) - from the village of Ameriya, Mahala - Hospital Salt Mahala
Jan 01 - Huda Khaled (1M?) [aka Hoda Khalid Saeed] - from the village of Aldoakhilih, Mahala - Hospital Salt Mahala
Jan 02 - Sara Adel Aboushadi (child) from "My wedding procession" [Abo_ak_i Hospital pathogenesis Zfti]
Jan 03 - Aida Abdul Aziz (28F?) - from the village of Al Abualli, Mahala - Hospital Salt Mahala
Jan 03 - Ahmed Mohammed Salim (24M) - from "the Republic", Mahala - Hospital Salt Mahala
Jan 03 - Hatem Mohammed Jamil (52M) - Mahala - Hospital Salt Mahala
Jan 03 - "Allegedly Saw" Mohammed Shihata (8 months F) - from the village of Mit Taha, Centre Mmas - Hospital Salt Mahala
Ismailia (2)
Jan 03 - SM Ezbet - Eid of the village on Eid
Jan 03 - Salma Ahmed Hussein - from the village of painted Daryll - high temperature and pneumonia, and headache
Menoufiya/Al Minufiyah Governorate (10)
Dec 30 - Nader Said Babylonian (5M) - ["Al Btanoun"] Al Batanun
Dec 30 - Ahmad Abdul Mohsen [aka Roqayya Ahmed Abdul Mohsen] (6M) - from a village "Tnbdi hamlet" ["Kafr Tunbdi"] in Shibin Al Kawm center [Kafr Tambidi?]
Dec 31 - Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (57M)
Dec 31 - Abed Rabbo (50M?)
Jan 01 - Adel Mohamed Adel - from [Sers Al-Layan] Sirs al Layyanah
Jan 01 - Doaa - daughter of Adel Mohamed Adel
Jan 01 - Mohamed Said Abdul Rahman - from Barhim
Jan 01 - Karim Mohamed Fawzi - from Kafr Sheikh Khalil village in Shibin Al Kawm
Jan 01 - Hamida Abdul Hafiz Rizk - Aboukls [Abu Kullus] village in the Martyrs
Jan 03 - "Hopes" Mr. Sabbagh (30F?) - from the village "Dkma" - Hospital Dietetic Shebin Mound
*Note that confirmed case Nora Aboul Abbas Mohamed above is also from Barhim, Al Minufiyah.
Kafr El-Sheikh (2)
Jan 03 - "Equity" Mohamed Hammouda (32F) - homemaker - village Smjarat Barahmanih was Hdzhma - Hospital Dietetic Kafr El-Sheikh
Jan 03 - Amal Ibrahim Ghraib (1?) - "Equity's" baby? - village Smjarat Barahmanih was Hdzhma - Hospital Dietetic Kafr El-Sheikh
Qalyubia (4 or 5)
Jan 01 - Safaa Mohamed Abdul Razek - nurse in the health unit - village of Al Alzm belonging to Shibin El Kanatar center [Shabin al Qanatir]
Jan 02 - Mohamed Talaat Mostafa Aboualfdl (3M) - in Banha Fevers - one of the 2 (3?) mentioned below?
Jan 03 - 2 (3?) new sus cases admitted to Banha Hosptial -- no names [also another report of 2 women being admitted to Banha Hospital]
Qena (1)
Jan 03 - Mohamed Khaled Adli - 4 month old child - Qena "Dietary" Hospital - high temperature
Port Said (4)
Dec 31 - Reza Abdalmugod Abdilkadir (25M) - husband of Radwan - "Satisfaction village in south of Port Said"
Dec 31 - Radwan - wife of Reza
Dec 31 - Mohammed (9M) - son of Reza & Radwan
Dec 31 - Rajab (5M) - son of Reza & Radwan
Sharkia/Ash Sharqiyah (5 + 1 neg)
NEG - Jan 01 - Nabil Ahmed Mohamed (8M) - from the village of Hrbit belonging to Aboukbir center
Jan 02 - Samia el-Sayed Awad (55F)
Jan 02 - Menah Mohamed Fathi (3F) - granddaughter of Samia
Jan 02 - Iman Sobhi (25F)
Jan 02 - Mohamed Maher Reda - Iman's son
Jan 03 - Husam Muhammad (4M) - from the village centre Alkhis Abouhmad
Last edited by Theresa42; January 3, 2008, 09:19 AM.
Reason: Removed 1 dupe
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
EGYPT: No bird flu pandemic despite recent deaths - health officials
DUBAI, 3 January 2008 (IRIN) - Four humans have died of bird flu in Egypt in the past week but health officials deny the country is gripped by an influenza pandemic.
?There is still no fear that the virus has transformed into an influenza pandemic,? John Jabbour, a medical consultant for emerging diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, told IRIN.
Sixteen other suspected cases were admitted to hospital on 2 January, according to Amany Nakhla, the regional planning assistant for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regional office, in Cairo.
According to media reports, the H5N1 strain has been detected among poultry in the Nile Delta, especially those reared in homesteads.
All four deaths in the past week were of women from the Nile Delta region and they brought to 19 the number of people who have died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu since avian flu was first detected in Egypt in 2006. Three of the four women were infected by domestic birds in their homes. The fourth was a poultry seller.
The WHO has said some of those who died having contracted the H5N1 virus strain showed moderate resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug.
Before their deaths the last reported case of a human death from bird flu was in June 2007. ?Avian flu is a behavioural disease and as a long time has passed since it [last] appeared in the country, people went back to their previous habits of raising poultry inside their homes because it is the only source of income for many of them,? Jabbour said.
Precautionary measures
Egypt has taken extensive precautionary measures against bird flu since it appeared in the country in 2006. ?We formed a higher committee to combat bird flu which convenes every month... The committee includes representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the different provinces and security forces,? Abdel Ghaffar Abdel Nasser, head of the disease surveillance unit at the Ministry of Health, told IRIN.
?We reached an advanced stage in our global pandemic plan on the national level, too, and we are working now at the provincial and hospital level. This plan focuses on defining the responsibilities of each party in case the disease becomes a global pandemic,? Adel Nasser noted.
?The awareness campaigns we conducted were very fruitful. For example, all the cases among children reported last year were cured. Mothers immediately took their children to hospital once they suspected that they [the children] had some bird flu symptoms,? he said.
?What we noticed recently is that people are becoming lazy in reporting the death of their poultry or the appearance of symptoms? Many of those who go to hospital after the appearance of bird flu symptoms still lie to doctors when asked if they raise poultry at home,? he said.
Transportation of birds
The government has said that the large number of people who keep poultry at home makes it difficult to eradicate the disease. Because of this the government declared an emergency in the Delta region in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus. It has also warned that it will take strong measures against farms that do not follow the rules for raising poultry.
The government also banned the transport of birds from one province to another without permission. ?Before moving the birds, dealers should inform the veterinary medicine unit which in turn will take some samples of the birds and send them to the laboratory for testing. Permission is issued if the results are negative,? said Saber Abdel Aziz, head of the general directorate of poultry epidemics and diseases at the Ministry of Agriculture.
The vehicles that transport live poultry are stopped for inspection at different checkpoints throughout the country. ?There are at least 100 checkpoints in every province and security forces and veterinary specialists are available in three shifts,? he added.
Abdel Aziz said the ministry had increased its budget for vaccinations this year. ?We are planning to give 200 million vaccination doses this year compared to 150 million last year.?
In the second phase of its vaccination campaign, which stared on 15 December and which will end on 15 March, the ministry aims to vaccinate 85 million domestic birds.
?The vaccines are free of charge for domestically-bred birds,? Abdul Aziz said. The first phase of the campaign, which started in June and ended in December 2007, targeted 76 million birds in all.
I'm going to be away from the computer almost all day tomorrow (yikes!) -- most importantly in the early a.m. which is when the Egyptian papers update.
The ones I check update at noon Egypt time which is 4 a.m. ET. Edit: Masrawy.com updates throughout the day.
So, if anyone's up for a challenge, here are the pages of the papers that I usually check (I'll also let pugmom and UK-Bird over at FW know that I'm going to be gone -- they also do Arabic translations).
*Two quirky things about Al Messa: 1) if you see "Other news" as a headline, make sure to click on it -- you'll go to another page that will have several stories on it -- bf stories are often there; 2) Al Messa translates better on Firefox rather than Internet Explorer -- for some reason, parts of the page disappear on Explorer.
*On Al Wafd, also click on the following in the top, right-hand column: Local news, Governorates (sometimes translated as "Sweeteners"), Accidents, Special Reports and Investigations.
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