Re: Egypt - Bird Flu in Poultry/Animals April 24+
[Google Machine Translation - from: http://www.elaph.com/Web/Health/2009/1/399933.htm - IOH]
Egypt procedures to combat bird flu concern
GMT 5:45:00 2009 Wednesday, January 14
Mohammed Hemeida
Mohammed Hemeida from Cairo:
A report of an international veterinary control in Egypt, warning of an outbreak of bird flu on a large scale in the world.
The report urged by the World Organization for Animal Health, Egypt not to fail in the fight against this deadly disease so as not to turn into a deadly and Abaa.
He said, "Bernard Vallat," the Director-General of the Organization "that he might spread of the avian influenza virus H5N1 in poultry last year, declined, the number of deaths among people who deal with infected birds fell, but the story is not over yet," he said, adding that the danger still exists, because the virus is endemic in some countries that have not been able to get rid of it so far, such as Egypt and Indonesia.
Vallat criticized the veterinary control of the two countries, saying "it is not sufficient at all to eliminate the deadly virus."
There are fears the presence of more than 300 thousand pigs in residential areas nationwide, Egypt
The great danger they posed was that they are located only future for the bird flu virus which is transmitted to humans, since the presence of the virus in the body of pork threatens the possibility of transmission to humans.
The report said that there is a real fear that the pig farms in the non-observance of the foundations of health education, as in the chicken farms, which threatens the spread of the disease on a large scale.
The report praised the efforts of both China and Vietnam in the fight against the virus, adding that the two countries have succeeded in the fight against the spread of the H5N1 virus through the systematic vaccination of poultry, despite the fact that this was costly, and must be stopped one day. "
According to the latest outcome of the World Health Organization to the death of 248 people so far the deadly disease since the virus returned H5N1, strain of bird flu in Asia in 2003, including 113 in Indonesia and 52 in Vietnam and 21 in China and 17 in Thailand.
The total death toll last year was about 31, after 59 in 2007 and 79 in 2006. Including 18 cases in Indonesia, 5 in Vietnam and 4 in both Egypt and China.
The case No. 23, died recently of a girl in Upper Egypt, are among 51 cases detected since the disease appeared in Egypt in 2006. The number of infections of bird flu in Egypt, the highest globally, outside the continent of Asia in the third place in terms of the number of casualties after Indonesia and Vietnam.
Scientists fear the virus evolved into a form that can pass more easily between humans, triggering a pandemic. Vallat said that despite the decline in casualties, but the risk of the virus is still centered in place, "he said, adding that the ball in the court of the rich countries, which must participate in the strengthening of veterinary surveillance in poor countries. Because of globalization, which makes the spread of animal-borne diseases of the economies could be have serious consequences.
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[Google Machine Translation - from: http://www.elaph.com/Web/Health/2009/1/399933.htm - IOH]
Egypt procedures to combat bird flu concern
GMT 5:45:00 2009 Wednesday, January 14
Mohammed Hemeida
Mohammed Hemeida from Cairo:
A report of an international veterinary control in Egypt, warning of an outbreak of bird flu on a large scale in the world.
The report urged by the World Organization for Animal Health, Egypt not to fail in the fight against this deadly disease so as not to turn into a deadly and Abaa.
He said, "Bernard Vallat," the Director-General of the Organization "that he might spread of the avian influenza virus H5N1 in poultry last year, declined, the number of deaths among people who deal with infected birds fell, but the story is not over yet," he said, adding that the danger still exists, because the virus is endemic in some countries that have not been able to get rid of it so far, such as Egypt and Indonesia.
Vallat criticized the veterinary control of the two countries, saying "it is not sufficient at all to eliminate the deadly virus."
There are fears the presence of more than 300 thousand pigs in residential areas nationwide, Egypt
The great danger they posed was that they are located only future for the bird flu virus which is transmitted to humans, since the presence of the virus in the body of pork threatens the possibility of transmission to humans.
The report said that there is a real fear that the pig farms in the non-observance of the foundations of health education, as in the chicken farms, which threatens the spread of the disease on a large scale.
The report praised the efforts of both China and Vietnam in the fight against the virus, adding that the two countries have succeeded in the fight against the spread of the H5N1 virus through the systematic vaccination of poultry, despite the fact that this was costly, and must be stopped one day. "
According to the latest outcome of the World Health Organization to the death of 248 people so far the deadly disease since the virus returned H5N1, strain of bird flu in Asia in 2003, including 113 in Indonesia and 52 in Vietnam and 21 in China and 17 in Thailand.
The total death toll last year was about 31, after 59 in 2007 and 79 in 2006. Including 18 cases in Indonesia, 5 in Vietnam and 4 in both Egypt and China.
The case No. 23, died recently of a girl in Upper Egypt, are among 51 cases detected since the disease appeared in Egypt in 2006. The number of infections of bird flu in Egypt, the highest globally, outside the continent of Asia in the third place in terms of the number of casualties after Indonesia and Vietnam.
Scientists fear the virus evolved into a form that can pass more easily between humans, triggering a pandemic. Vallat said that despite the decline in casualties, but the risk of the virus is still centered in place, "he said, adding that the ball in the court of the rich countries, which must participate in the strengthening of veterinary surveillance in poor countries. Because of globalization, which makes the spread of animal-borne diseases of the economies could be have serious consequences.
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