From a Jordanian paper...
Machine-translated from Arabic:
"Emergency" meeting in Cairo for the study of a new offspring appearance from the bird flu
Feb 26, 2007
Amman - Jordan today participates in an emergency meeting that called for it on the World Health Organization in Cairo to the region countries, for the study of the scientific new developments related to the appearance of a new smoothness to the bird flu in Egypt for the first time a changeable about an offspring (H5N1 Strain) that injures the human being, according to the manager of the initial health care doctor Adel Al Belbeisi.
And Al Belbeisi said to "The Tomorrow" that the meeting will include 22 countries from the region of the Middle East, confirming that "the only Al Tami Flou [Tamilfu] treatment that proved an efficiency in a recovery what my ratio is 80% of the injured if have been given to category whose injury is expected early".
And he participates in the meeting that is held throughout three days of secretaries and the secretaries assistants in my ministry the health and the agriculture, according to Al Belbeisi who pointed to "the non being affected of kingdom [Jordan] by this disease that moves from injured birds to a human within a specific environment".
And the first influenza case appeared birds in the kingdom between dead Abyssinians birds [turkeys] in Agloun governorate in March month from last year.
And Al Belbeisi said that the World Health Organization declared that two persons in Egypt died last month because of the new offspring that calls S294, while an Egyptian child regained the recovery after its receiving Tami Flou's treatment.
And he added that the new virus was dismissed from both victims without a knowledge if was the virus it may change the birds before the human being's injury of a mother that changes the human being after the treatment, attracting that the organization does not have any reasons for the change of recommendations around a treatment "Al Tami Flou" after the discovery of the new offspring in two patients only.
And he declared also in Egypt the eleventh death of condition by the bird flu disease and she is a woman from Suweef's structures governorate in south of Cairo, and it resulted the injury as the Egyptian Ministry of Health mentioned due to mixing house birds.
And the participants discuss in the the meeting of the extent of these viruses response for the available treatments now and "the genetic analyses of the viruses that were extracted from both patients who were dead last month and confirms the probability of a decrease of the efficiency in anti-viruses, the known ones efficiency of medicine Baltami Flou."
And all of the viruses causing the bird flu and the human influenza send, according to Al Belbeisi to the laboratories of reference belonging to the World Health Organization for a knowledge if there were any genetic changes in these viruses, to be ready to the appearance of new offsprings their spread may facilitate between the human being directly.
It is pointed that my ministry the health, the agriculture and the concerned authorities imaginary exercises penetrated into the crossroads governorate in the beginning of current month within the measures of the national plan for the confrontation of bird flu.
Machine-translated from Arabic:
"Emergency" meeting in Cairo for the study of a new offspring appearance from the bird flu
Feb 26, 2007
Amman - Jordan today participates in an emergency meeting that called for it on the World Health Organization in Cairo to the region countries, for the study of the scientific new developments related to the appearance of a new smoothness to the bird flu in Egypt for the first time a changeable about an offspring (H5N1 Strain) that injures the human being, according to the manager of the initial health care doctor Adel Al Belbeisi.
And Al Belbeisi said to "The Tomorrow" that the meeting will include 22 countries from the region of the Middle East, confirming that "the only Al Tami Flou [Tamilfu] treatment that proved an efficiency in a recovery what my ratio is 80% of the injured if have been given to category whose injury is expected early".
And he participates in the meeting that is held throughout three days of secretaries and the secretaries assistants in my ministry the health and the agriculture, according to Al Belbeisi who pointed to "the non being affected of kingdom [Jordan] by this disease that moves from injured birds to a human within a specific environment".
And the first influenza case appeared birds in the kingdom between dead Abyssinians birds [turkeys] in Agloun governorate in March month from last year.
And Al Belbeisi said that the World Health Organization declared that two persons in Egypt died last month because of the new offspring that calls S294, while an Egyptian child regained the recovery after its receiving Tami Flou's treatment.
And he added that the new virus was dismissed from both victims without a knowledge if was the virus it may change the birds before the human being's injury of a mother that changes the human being after the treatment, attracting that the organization does not have any reasons for the change of recommendations around a treatment "Al Tami Flou" after the discovery of the new offspring in two patients only.
And he declared also in Egypt the eleventh death of condition by the bird flu disease and she is a woman from Suweef's structures governorate in south of Cairo, and it resulted the injury as the Egyptian Ministry of Health mentioned due to mixing house birds.
And the participants discuss in the the meeting of the extent of these viruses response for the available treatments now and "the genetic analyses of the viruses that were extracted from both patients who were dead last month and confirms the probability of a decrease of the efficiency in anti-viruses, the known ones efficiency of medicine Baltami Flou."
And all of the viruses causing the bird flu and the human influenza send, according to Al Belbeisi to the laboratories of reference belonging to the World Health Organization for a knowledge if there were any genetic changes in these viruses, to be ready to the appearance of new offsprings their spread may facilitate between the human being directly.
It is pointed that my ministry the health, the agriculture and the concerned authorities imaginary exercises penetrated into the crossroads governorate in the beginning of current month within the measures of the national plan for the confrontation of bird flu.
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