The Health Ministry has not swine flu cases recorded so far - Reuters
4/26/2009 5:47:00 PM
CAIRO - Editor Masrawy - Dr. Abdullah Alsaidi the World Health Organization official in Tunis, it is not possible to reduce the risk of virus, swine flu and the lack of presence of drugs for the treatment and mutate and transfer from man to man.
Alsaidi said in a statement to "Al Jazeera" channel space on Sunday that there is a vaccine that is suitable to deal with the virus mutated at the moment, especially after the failure of the treatment of disease, drugs used to treat avian flu.
وHe explained that the process of removing healthy patients is the key step that should be followed in all countries, indicating that the virus is transmitted through the air.
He added that the World Health Organization can produce the vaccine in a short period of time to cope with the disease if a virus is isolated Alpheus.
He pointed out that no country is immune from the disease to be transmitted in a global world and the speed of movement between the corners at high speed in a short time.
He .. For the WHO has taken a number of recommendations the importance of epidemiological surveillance of the disease and prompt reporting of cases and the like in the nearby areas where the existing.
Warnings from the swine flu
On the other hand, Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health that Egypt had not recorded any cases of swine flu so far, and the current global concern of the disease is that the age groups most vulnerable young people, while regular flu affects young or the elderly and that age group are not so far in Mexico and injuries among young people.
He said that the occurrence of injuries linked to the spread of infectious cases in the animal and the spread of epidemic outbreaks in many regions and communities since the outbreak of bird flu in Egypt in 2006 the government and experts know that pigs could be an intermediate host to become infected with bird flu or other viruses.
Therefore, the Government has taken a series of preventive measures on the part of the Higher Committee to combat bird flu, is the transfer of pig farms outside the residential block with continue to take samples from the pigs, as well as contact them through the General Authority for Veterinary Services Laboratories and the central Ministry of Health to make sure that they are free of the disease.
Shaheen pointed out that the Centers for Disease Control Atlanta record with the transition from the swine flu human to human, and that a new type of influenza virus that might cause symptoms and is on the rise in temperature, cough and body pain, headache, cold or nominated in some cases, vomiting may occur, and diarrhea.
The symptoms are cough in pigs and secretions in the nose, sneeze and difficulty in breathing and loss of appetite and abstain from food and lack of fertilization and increase the rate of abortion in the female pigs, noting that some recent studies have demonstrated the risk of swine flu among workers who are working those farms that appear injuries ranging between 15% to 25% and about 10% of veterinarians had become infected through direct exposure to them.
On the other hand, Dr. Sayed, Assistant Minister of Health Affairs that the swine flu preventive disease of the respiratory system due to a type of influenza viruses, pointing out that the epidemiology of avian influenza outbreaks occur among swine herds throughout the year and the rate in the winter months.
And studies have shown that 30 to 50% of the pigs in the commercial sector, United States of America was hit by swine flu, and there is fear of a global reciprocity pigs more than one type of virus can lead to the emergence of a new type of influenza viruses.
The assistant minister to the treatment of swine flu, which is the same medicine is dealing with people wounded in the condition of bird flu early detection and treatment is during the 48 hours from the beginning of discovery Msheeraily that the virus is transmitted by direct mixing of pigs, contaminated instruments used in pigs infected herds, which was vaccinated against swine flu virus may be involved.
Swine flu sweeps the world
. He stressed that avian influenza can be prevented through immunization of swine herds and the use of safe working methods and the promotion of security among farm workers pigs, and the use of proper ventilation in the pig farms, pointing out that the flu vaccines for pigs does not help in the prevention, or one hundred percent, depending on the many strains of flu which makes the vaccine does not protect against all strains.
He stressed the need for the veterinary treatment of a strategy for reducing the spread of influenza among the herds, and to prevent the spread of the virus between pigs and humans and birds.
In turn, Dr. Amr Kandeel, head of the central administration of the affairs of preventive HIV is not transmitted through eating pork or any pork products Vallhom safe arrival at 71 degrees Celsius during the cooking and that would be sufficient to kill the virus.
. He called Qandil following set of guidelines for the prevention of swine flu start washing hands with soap and water several times after exposure to animals, in addition to very careful when handling infected animals and when the immediate reporting of any symptoms similar to bird flu, especially if the amount of pigs Mkhalta, the withdrawal of samples from nose, and flew the injured to make sure a virus.
He stressed the need for the Ministry of Health took samples of all these contacts and working farms for analysis and make sure there is no injury.
The General Authority for Veterinary Services issued a statement Sunday that immediate action must be taken now to address the spread of swine flu, in a number of countries in the world, especially Mexico and the United States and its transmission to humans and caused the fulfillment of many of them, which could threaten a global epidemic.
Dr Hamid Samaha Chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services decides that the work of monitoring and testing of pigs Alakleniecp and notify the Commission as soon as the suspect in the emergence of symptoms similar to the swine flu, reducing the movement of pigs to be under veterinary supervision and to warn and educate contacts of the pigs and taking the necessary reserves and to inform the Board immediately upon any suspected pig disease.
The statement pointed out that what happened Alnhor flu virus in pigs in Mexico and the United States hit nearly 11 cases in America and around 1324 in the case of Mexico, the number of deaths amounted to about 81 people.
The statement said that the symptoms in humans similar to ordinary flu symptoms, which are represented in the high temperature and laziness and the desire to sleep, and loss of appetite, cough and some of the injured are suffering from continuous and secretions deny throat infection and tonsillitis, nausea, diarrhea and loss of consciousness, which could end in death.
The statement noted that the disease is transmitted between pigs and direct contact with the symptoms in the abrupt rise in temperature, lethargy, discharge and deny the difficulty in breathing, redness and inflammation in the eye and loss of appetite to eat pork and there is a vaccine to protect pigs from the disease are vaccinated pigs in Europe and America to this vaccine.
At the same issue, Dr. Abdel Azim Wazir, Cairo Governor of the seriousness of the bird flu virus mutation through the pigs and the need to prevent the breeding of poultry and birds near them until the completion of the establishment of pig farms, which were approved by the new Council of Ministers on an area of 283 acres of the eastern desert, May 15.
. He called the governor, district head of ancient Egypt quickly inventory the four existing hangars, which include 650 pigs and the emphasis on President Nasser's business district, directing campaigns for the medical district and raising pigs, which includes 450 hangar has 62 thousand head.
This came during a meeting of the Governor of Cairo on Sunday with General Ismail poet first assistant interior minister and security chief for Cairo, Major General Adel Amer, police chief of water bodies and vice-governor and district heads and directors of the departments of Veterinary Medicine and Medical Affairs and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the cleanliness and beautification of Cairo.
The Governor emphasized the need for the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine to provide all the materials and tools necessary cleansing of the workshops and special clothing for workers and clean up the nests of premises, shops and cars, which Baltjamil.
The Governor emphasized the neighborhood leaders not to allow the presence of all or any place of straw in each scope and chase street vendors and accounting will be personally in the event of any of them the district.
. And Dr. Abdel Azim Wazir, Cairo Governor that there were strict instructions to the heads of districts not to allow the education of domestic poultry and the demolition of all the nests and the immediate confiscation and slaughter of birds in them as well as not to allow the circulation of live poultry stores and public markets.
The instructions stressed that in the case of seizure of any place of the live poultry deal with the confiscation of all equipment will be inside the shop and lock him and the separation of facilities and delivery of poultry to the nearest abattoir after the disclosure.
The Minister pointed out that what is being caught in the market until the car seized and confiscated by the poultry and in the case of having free of the disease has been massacres slaughtered for the benefit of the dealer after deduction of administrative expenses in the case of having been infected with the disease, destroy the places allocated to it.
The Governor emphasized that the efforts made by the organs of the Governorate of Cairo in the fight against bird flu in several areas to be implemented and followed up daily by the public security organs and police facilities and police bodies of water in cooperation with the organs of representative in the districts and departments of veterinary and health affairs.
He pointed out that due to the fact that the Cairo governorate governorates consuming and not productive, there is currently no production of poultry farms, where there were some farms on the suburbs and moved to the dependence of neighboring provinces, has been established, 11, ambushed on the border of Egypt and its entry points for not allowing the entry of any shipments of it only on condition the presence of a medical certificate confirming that they are free of bird flu and a specific traffic destined to the slaughterhouse, and a member of the ambush, to accompany the shipment for delivery to the slaughterhouse in order to ensure that non-specific leakage to the market.
Recalled that the swine flu caused the deaths of 81 people in Mexico so far, injured more than a thousand other people, while injuring 11 people have been confirmed in the United States until now, as the Minister of Health of New Zealand injured 10 students in the district, "Oakland" after their return from Mexico.
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