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  • Syria: Health strengthen preventive measures to prevent the spread of bird flu

    Health strengthen preventive measures to prevent the spread of bird flu

    Damascus

    The start of the season due to the migration of wild birds and to prevent any cases of bird flu in humans and poultry, the Ministry of Health has strengthened the preventive measures necessary to prevent the spread of the virus inside the Syrian territories, and prevention as well, if any, in cooperation with the ministries concerned.

    Dr. Hani Al-Laham, director of Environmental and Chronic Diseases in the Ministry of Health confirmed that Syria is totally free of the disease, and the Ministry of Health since the announcement of the World Health Organization, a state of emergency against the disease was quick to mobilize efforts to prevent the entry into the country.

    The welding in a statement to "sent" to the health institutions to monitor suspected cases to the Mrajaiha and reported by the Ministry of Health and departments, adding that the ministry has to create an appropriate place in the national hospitals, equipped with breathing machines, trained to manage the cases and the provision of curative and preventive medicine, free of charge, as the instructions issued for the diagnosis and treatment of offenders and the prevention and reporting mechanism for the suspected cases in addition to the prevention and control.

    He said. Welding that the Ministry asked the ministries and other relevant sectors (agriculture - the media - irrigation - the local administration and the environment - the economy and trade) to take preventive measures and control measures, which include preventing the import of poultry and poultry products from affected areas and monitor the disease in birds, especially poultry, and immediate reporting of any suspected cases, and the implementation of preventive measures in poultry farms and markets selling pharmaceutical and control, and shut down the offender, and prevent the breeding and sale of live birds and poultry in populated areas and control the migration of birds and water bodies, and to prevent the hunting of birds.

    The manager of chronic disease was Crapes to provide vaccine to workers in the poultry farms and bird breeders and make them aware of ways of prevention, noting that the ministry continued to implement the above measures in cooperation and coordination with other relevant actors, particularly with regard to disease surveillance in humans and birds are being sent weekly reports on the epidemiological situation of the disease in humans and birds, including reports of zero (ie, even in the absence of cases) in addition to the weekly reports on all the measures taken and implemented by the directorates of health and others, as the exchange of information with some countries and international organizations.

    Is noteworthy that the bird flu because the virus is highly contagious Crape pathogenicity and mortality rate of more than 50% in humans and 100% in poultry.

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