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Testing on suspected cases done AFTER Tamiflu treatment is started?! I hope not....
Google-translated from Arabic:
Egypt: Bird flu still out of control!
June 9, 2007
After the death of Dietary victim No. 15
Investigation-Ange penguins
Once again returned fears of avian flu after the girl moved habits surgeon beacon from the list of injured included 35 cases accepted to the list of victims who arrived after the 15 deaths. Mayyada is also the second case of child victims after the death of 15-year-old girl on April 4 last year.
The discovery also serious injury came late, has entered Dietary pathogenesis of Qena hospital last Thursday suffering from a high temperature and pneumonia following exposure to birds suspected of being infected with bird flu disease, and the condition referred to the critical point, Luxor International Hospital were placed on the respirator industry however, she died yesterday at dawn Saturday.
Death habits after illness bird flu re-opening the file of this killer virus raises fears of the vulnerability of children has become a victim of the lack of awareness by parents and their rejection by the inspection teams of veterinary mission where refuse entry to their homes or deny the upbringing of birds in the house, birds or hide inside living rooms so one of Aikthv presence, and refuse to fortify and vaccinated .. wrongs residents paid for now sons and their grandsons .. This prompts us to ask: When will respond Aviarists home with the efforts of the resistance? Why Aisareeton reporting on suspicion of injury to a family member exhibited symptoms of avian flu?
Says Dr. Nasr Hamed chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that there is an integrated plan to fight the disease involving 1200 veterinarian who vaccinated chickens against bird flu disease, have been provided with all the means and tools and vaccines needed for the vaccination, the Council of Ministers also adopted a hundred million pounds to the Ministry of Agriculture for this the purpose of financing the process of vaccinating the birds household and private farms in addition to working awareness against the dangers of this disease where veterinarian moves to the homes and vaccinate all domestic fowl birds inside, we have so far vaccinated about 900 million chickens ..
But we face many difficulties in doing our work, especially in rural areas where we found some people hide chickens and of the weak awareness of the problem of why there must be an awareness of the people through the media, and even houses of worship to publicize the role of veterinarian in this area because it plays an important role in immunization. We must help parents and allow him to enter their homes to preserve the public health because this disease has moved from birds to humans and animals must be up to the itinerary of the disease to eliminate it completely. This will happen only allowing doctor veterinary vaccine for all indoor birds, but if found infected birds from the right do killing them but executing all birds in the surrounding area Qatar one kilometer and perhaps people refuse entry essentially even Aikthv Vivkaddou cases of infected birds that raise it is a source of income for them as well as material provided food for their families.
But after the appearance of a village center habits critics Qena Governorate has moved teams fight for the village yesterday was the first execution of all birds found in this village has been cleared in full and village roads surrounding and there Aadinma 488 chickens and efforts are continuing to pursue the disease is not in Qena Governorate alone, but in all governorates.
And cautions Dr. Naheed Ghneim deputy dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Higher Studies and Professor of common diseases among humans and animals to a harvest of children easier disease and avian influenza is the result of direct contact between the child and these birds, especially in rural areas, because adults may take a kind of cautious when dealing with the bird unlike young, who Ayoun gravity addition to the lack of sufficient to have immunity against the virus.
Asserts we can protect ourselves from this disease cancel Education household final vaccinated birds or fowl, and adds that the conditions for a sound education to be rearing birds in parks separately and that each type away from the others, because ducks example retains the virus do not appear in inside the symptoms of the disease and helps to spread, and must these barns to be covered and away from the line of migratory birds and other domestic birds.
As the housekeeper must deal with it is wearing a mask and is keen to change her clothes immediately after graduating from the hangar birds, as well as the need for continuous cleaning of the barns and immunization Permanent Teorha, as must the media to continue in the process of sensitization and Atre for intermittent, and the problem arises suddenly because the threat is still around.
In the end talked Health Ministry official source who wished to remain anonymous, said: "The ministry has done symposia health education on the nature of the disease and methods of prevention through five thousand health units nationwide, and we have all the necessary medicines to hospitals and Viral Sadr alongside the publication of a definition of the disease and when the the suspects and evidence to pursue cases in which the disease was detected frequently in various places, the source pointed out the possibility of the emergence of new cases and deaths in the next phase.
Dr Al Nasr Mr. undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and head of the preventive affairs ministry: There is a plan being implemented is divided into two parts, part of which the Ministries of Agriculture and Interior, and the second part played by the Ministry of Health under the supervision of Dr. Hatem Gabali, Minister of Health, where the monitor, especially if patients found that there Navch birds in the house, and then followed the case of a person had a high temperature here in the presence of suspect cases of avian flu has reached the number suspected of being infected with the disease in 3285 people are from the disease entered the hospital during the past year and so far have been taking samples from persons were analyzed in labs the Ministry of Health has been taking samples from the dead birds have been analyzed in the lab veterinary. All of this is after giving the patient Tamiflu tablets or drink [ohlord, I hope THAT is not right and that the journalist got that wrong or that something has been lost in translation here...], according to the situation and if we found through analysis that the negative samples suspect it complements regular treatment and not so far shown positive cases from all of these only 35 the situation including the situation habits.
He added that training for the ministry trained doctors, nurses, technicians, labs, and work to educate villagers, where this task 13 thousand rural pilot was educated them healthy for educating family members against the dangers of the disease and how to avoid the occurrence and incidence.
Dr. Nasr says that Mr. world map of the disease is the presence of 310 cases of which 189 died and for Egypt ranked third in the incidence and mortality in the seventh, with the number of deceased 41% of the number of people infected since the first infection Indonesia and India [India?] first in the number of deaths.
Testing on suspected cases done AFTER Tamiflu treatment is started?! I hope not....
Google-translated from Arabic:
Egypt: Bird flu still out of control!
June 9, 2007
After the death of Dietary victim No. 15
Investigation-Ange penguins
Once again returned fears of avian flu after the girl moved habits surgeon beacon from the list of injured included 35 cases accepted to the list of victims who arrived after the 15 deaths. Mayyada is also the second case of child victims after the death of 15-year-old girl on April 4 last year.
The discovery also serious injury came late, has entered Dietary pathogenesis of Qena hospital last Thursday suffering from a high temperature and pneumonia following exposure to birds suspected of being infected with bird flu disease, and the condition referred to the critical point, Luxor International Hospital were placed on the respirator industry however, she died yesterday at dawn Saturday.
Death habits after illness bird flu re-opening the file of this killer virus raises fears of the vulnerability of children has become a victim of the lack of awareness by parents and their rejection by the inspection teams of veterinary mission where refuse entry to their homes or deny the upbringing of birds in the house, birds or hide inside living rooms so one of Aikthv presence, and refuse to fortify and vaccinated .. wrongs residents paid for now sons and their grandsons .. This prompts us to ask: When will respond Aviarists home with the efforts of the resistance? Why Aisareeton reporting on suspicion of injury to a family member exhibited symptoms of avian flu?
Says Dr. Nasr Hamed chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that there is an integrated plan to fight the disease involving 1200 veterinarian who vaccinated chickens against bird flu disease, have been provided with all the means and tools and vaccines needed for the vaccination, the Council of Ministers also adopted a hundred million pounds to the Ministry of Agriculture for this the purpose of financing the process of vaccinating the birds household and private farms in addition to working awareness against the dangers of this disease where veterinarian moves to the homes and vaccinate all domestic fowl birds inside, we have so far vaccinated about 900 million chickens ..
But we face many difficulties in doing our work, especially in rural areas where we found some people hide chickens and of the weak awareness of the problem of why there must be an awareness of the people through the media, and even houses of worship to publicize the role of veterinarian in this area because it plays an important role in immunization. We must help parents and allow him to enter their homes to preserve the public health because this disease has moved from birds to humans and animals must be up to the itinerary of the disease to eliminate it completely. This will happen only allowing doctor veterinary vaccine for all indoor birds, but if found infected birds from the right do killing them but executing all birds in the surrounding area Qatar one kilometer and perhaps people refuse entry essentially even Aikthv Vivkaddou cases of infected birds that raise it is a source of income for them as well as material provided food for their families.
But after the appearance of a village center habits critics Qena Governorate has moved teams fight for the village yesterday was the first execution of all birds found in this village has been cleared in full and village roads surrounding and there Aadinma 488 chickens and efforts are continuing to pursue the disease is not in Qena Governorate alone, but in all governorates.
And cautions Dr. Naheed Ghneim deputy dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Higher Studies and Professor of common diseases among humans and animals to a harvest of children easier disease and avian influenza is the result of direct contact between the child and these birds, especially in rural areas, because adults may take a kind of cautious when dealing with the bird unlike young, who Ayoun gravity addition to the lack of sufficient to have immunity against the virus.
Asserts we can protect ourselves from this disease cancel Education household final vaccinated birds or fowl, and adds that the conditions for a sound education to be rearing birds in parks separately and that each type away from the others, because ducks example retains the virus do not appear in inside the symptoms of the disease and helps to spread, and must these barns to be covered and away from the line of migratory birds and other domestic birds.
As the housekeeper must deal with it is wearing a mask and is keen to change her clothes immediately after graduating from the hangar birds, as well as the need for continuous cleaning of the barns and immunization Permanent Teorha, as must the media to continue in the process of sensitization and Atre for intermittent, and the problem arises suddenly because the threat is still around.
In the end talked Health Ministry official source who wished to remain anonymous, said: "The ministry has done symposia health education on the nature of the disease and methods of prevention through five thousand health units nationwide, and we have all the necessary medicines to hospitals and Viral Sadr alongside the publication of a definition of the disease and when the the suspects and evidence to pursue cases in which the disease was detected frequently in various places, the source pointed out the possibility of the emergence of new cases and deaths in the next phase.
Dr Al Nasr Mr. undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and head of the preventive affairs ministry: There is a plan being implemented is divided into two parts, part of which the Ministries of Agriculture and Interior, and the second part played by the Ministry of Health under the supervision of Dr. Hatem Gabali, Minister of Health, where the monitor, especially if patients found that there Navch birds in the house, and then followed the case of a person had a high temperature here in the presence of suspect cases of avian flu has reached the number suspected of being infected with the disease in 3285 people are from the disease entered the hospital during the past year and so far have been taking samples from persons were analyzed in labs the Ministry of Health has been taking samples from the dead birds have been analyzed in the lab veterinary. All of this is after giving the patient Tamiflu tablets or drink [ohlord, I hope THAT is not right and that the journalist got that wrong or that something has been lost in translation here...], according to the situation and if we found through analysis that the negative samples suspect it complements regular treatment and not so far shown positive cases from all of these only 35 the situation including the situation habits.
He added that training for the ministry trained doctors, nurses, technicians, labs, and work to educate villagers, where this task 13 thousand rural pilot was educated them healthy for educating family members against the dangers of the disease and how to avoid the occurrence and incidence.
Dr. Nasr says that Mr. world map of the disease is the presence of 310 cases of which 189 died and for Egypt ranked third in the incidence and mortality in the seventh, with the number of deceased 41% of the number of people infected since the first infection Indonesia and India [India?] first in the number of deaths.
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