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Egypt. Government launches campaign to vaccinate domestic birds ?Influenza? on the way ?polio vaccination of children?
Government launches campaign to vaccinate domestic birds ?Influenza? on the way ?polio vaccination of children?
Mohammad Mahdi 2-23-2009
[WARNING. Google Raw Machine Translation from Arabic to English. Please do refer to original article at this LINK. EDITED.]
Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister, the introduction of vaccination of domestic birds the same way the vaccination campaign against polio, stressing the need to begin the implementation of the plan ?as soon as approval? of the Higher Committee to combat bird flu., Dr. Magdy Radi, the spokesman for the Council of Ministers, the Nazif received a detailed report on various efforts to cope with bird flu, and preparations for the provinces against the killer virus through the winter breeding season and are active in it, pointing out that the prime minister's decision to embark on a polio campaign, because success in eliminating the disease in all parts of the Republic.
Radi said - in a press statement yesterday - that the report stressed that ?the total avian influenza cases in the world was about 406 cases, while the number of deaths 254, and the total number of cases of human infection in Egypt reached 55 positive, two of which , for two poultry farms, and 52 cases of contact with birds, and one case of bird sellers ?.
The recovery was 29 cases, while there had been 23 cases of death, and there are three cases of the hospital in stable condition, which means that the proportion of deaths due to bird flu in Egypt, 41.8%, compared with 62.5% mortality rate in the world, pointing out that cases of human infections with avian influenza are 18 provinces in the Republic.
Radi said that the total number of confirmed cases of avian influenza infection in 2006 was about 18 cases, 10 cases of them died, the death rate of 55.6%, and total number of confirmed cases in 2007 about 25 cases died, including 9 cases, the death rate of 36% , the total number of confirmed cases in 2008 to 8 cases, 4 cases of them died, the death rate of 50%. The total number of confirmed cases in 2009 of about 4 cases, the recovery has been one case and out of the hospital, and there are still 3 cases in the hospital in stable condition, adding that the Ministry of Health and Population, in the context of its plan to control the disease, the formation of a strategic stockpile of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to the number of 2.4 million doses, and the formation of a strategic stockpile enough of the tools for prevention 6 months, and 30 million during a visit home in 2008, to increase the awareness of citizens through a number of pilot rural 13100, and the printing and distribution of the number of 2 million Poster and leaflet to raise awareness of, and the number 2735 to sign extension .
The spokesman for the Council of Ministers that the total number of positive spots for birds in 2009 so far to 17 cases, including one case in the farms and in 16 cases of home, while the number of infections during 2008 about 116 cases, including 87 of the center of the rural culture, and 29 focus on farms, pointing out that the total of birds have been vaccinated before the start of the first national campaign since May 2006, until June 2007 was 90.5 million birds at the republic level.
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Government launches campaign to vaccinate domestic birds ?Influenza? on the way ?polio vaccination of children?
Mohammad Mahdi 2-23-2009
[WARNING. Google Raw Machine Translation from Arabic to English. Please do refer to original article at this LINK. EDITED.]
Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister, the introduction of vaccination of domestic birds the same way the vaccination campaign against polio, stressing the need to begin the implementation of the plan ?as soon as approval? of the Higher Committee to combat bird flu., Dr. Magdy Radi, the spokesman for the Council of Ministers, the Nazif received a detailed report on various efforts to cope with bird flu, and preparations for the provinces against the killer virus through the winter breeding season and are active in it, pointing out that the prime minister's decision to embark on a polio campaign, because success in eliminating the disease in all parts of the Republic.
Radi said - in a press statement yesterday - that the report stressed that ?the total avian influenza cases in the world was about 406 cases, while the number of deaths 254, and the total number of cases of human infection in Egypt reached 55 positive, two of which , for two poultry farms, and 52 cases of contact with birds, and one case of bird sellers ?.
The recovery was 29 cases, while there had been 23 cases of death, and there are three cases of the hospital in stable condition, which means that the proportion of deaths due to bird flu in Egypt, 41.8%, compared with 62.5% mortality rate in the world, pointing out that cases of human infections with avian influenza are 18 provinces in the Republic.
Radi said that the total number of confirmed cases of avian influenza infection in 2006 was about 18 cases, 10 cases of them died, the death rate of 55.6%, and total number of confirmed cases in 2007 about 25 cases died, including 9 cases, the death rate of 36% , the total number of confirmed cases in 2008 to 8 cases, 4 cases of them died, the death rate of 50%. The total number of confirmed cases in 2009 of about 4 cases, the recovery has been one case and out of the hospital, and there are still 3 cases in the hospital in stable condition, adding that the Ministry of Health and Population, in the context of its plan to control the disease, the formation of a strategic stockpile of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to the number of 2.4 million doses, and the formation of a strategic stockpile enough of the tools for prevention 6 months, and 30 million during a visit home in 2008, to increase the awareness of citizens through a number of pilot rural 13100, and the printing and distribution of the number of 2 million Poster and leaflet to raise awareness of, and the number 2735 to sign extension .
The spokesman for the Council of Ministers that the total number of positive spots for birds in 2009 so far to 17 cases, including one case in the farms and in 16 cases of home, while the number of infections during 2008 about 116 cases, including 87 of the center of the rural culture, and 29 focus on farms, pointing out that the total of birds have been vaccinated before the start of the first national campaign since May 2006, until June 2007 was 90.5 million birds at the republic level.
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