Saturday, May 23, 2009

A government confirms: No leakage of the pork market ..The study warns of bird flu epidemic in Egypt

On 22-5 - 2009
Denied in a statement on the status of information and support decision-making Council of Ministers, to detect any cases of leakage of the pork market for the meat as normal, despite the warnings, including a warning to Dr. Fathi Saad, Governor of the sixth of October, the likelihood of this happening, in the wake of the government's decision to slaughter herds and execution pigs in Egypt.
The statement issued by the central operations room status information and decision support, on Wednesday last, that there were no cases of animal or human disease, swine flu in all governorates of the republic. Wink

He pointed out that the Ministry of Agriculture carried out a comprehensive examination of the refrigerated meat existing Greater Cairo and butcher shops and restaurants, and campaigns, the Ministry will not be stopped once the completion of the slaughter of pigs and the execution, but will continue to ensure the safety and quality of the existing meat market, to reassure citizens and invited them to not fear to buy meat or demand it.

The statement declared that the completion of all the death and slaughter of pigs, Giza Governorate, where preservation is now free of pigs, are expected to be Qalubia the sixth of October and ended on Thursday of beheadings and executions.

. And recommended the need to conduct a complete survey of the holders of the operations of the slaughter of pigs or from pigs treated with both in combination or exclusively during the period prior to the survey also includes the names of families of such persons for the follow-up health lab and in the coming period and to ensure their safety.

On questions of public opinion on the safety of landfills to be buried by the pigs, the statement pointed out that the cemeteries are selected on the basis of several requirements, including distance from residential areas, the nature of soil and sand, and be away from any underground water.
The statement pointed out that the method of burial is the burial of dead animals and birds, or digging in the tunnels are covered with lime neighborhood, with a thickness of a layer of sand surface, which provides a healthy environment to allow the rapid disintegration, pigs and safe.

However, some media reported that the coins resist swine flu virus because of the nature of processed minerals, and contain anti-bacteria and viruses, but Dr. Hamed Samaha Chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, said that there was no study in this regard.

The statement pointed out that the number of aircraft that have been reached Mnazertha 1810 aircraft, according to the report of quarantine during the period from 1 to May 18 this has been a corresponding vessel 97 and 5 cars.
The country received 243872 passengers from the affected country, it was all Mnazerthm, where the presence of symptoms and suspicion of the disease on the case of 27 were all negative.
The statement pointed out that the total number of incoming calls to the hotline (105) during the period from 1 to May 18 this amounted to 39,520 calls (33,551 per inquiry avian and swine influenza, and 5018 complaints of breeding birds, and 504 reports of breeding pigs, and 323 complaints of death of birds, and 124 filed in the deaths of pigs).

The other hand, the statement stressed the need to ensure the safe breeding of birds in the coming period so that the farm has all the health and environmental requirements that serve as breeding birds and helps to create employment and ensure that the construction of new entities, which would represent a starting point for the integrated industrial development are and modernization.
It also recommended the need to prepare a study on this matter on the best way of breeding birds and their use in the industry during the coming period.
The recent study warned of the bird flu virus in Egypt, begins to spread among humans because the disease is endemic, the prevalence of pig farms between the residential blocks.
The study, published in the German news agency, to the warnings from the International Center of influenza in the United States of Atlanta last month and expect to start the spread of avian flu among humans in Egypt, due to avian flu is endemic, and the pigs that are raised on the random garbage including dead chickens, and human and animal wastes, which are mixed inside the shell of avian influenza and human beings and pigs to produce fierce virus transmitted from human to human, which heralds a "human disaster".
The study shows that 450 pigs, causing a pandemic of Russia and bacteria, and pointed to the decline in research funding the transfer of organs from pigs in many research institutions the world over a historic repository of cells that the virus epidemic.

The report quoted a consultant at the Research Institute for Animal Production, was quoted as saying: The WHO called on Egypt in February 2007 to work on the speed of the transfer of pig farms to the existence of medical evidence confirmed the swine virus infection "5, H 1" and transferred to the appropriate rights as a breadwinner for the virus will mutate, particularly as the Egypt has the highest state in the Middle East in the production of pigs, he said, adding: The Egyptian government was not aware of the fact of death of 90 pig farms in 2006 and Matareya Almatmdip, as a result of a "mysterious disease", Dr. Hamed Samaha Chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, denied that.

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