Alexandria raise alert level, fearing the arrival of plague

17 يونيو 2009

June 17, 2009

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Egypt Today: The Directorate of Health in Alexandria, raising the high state of alert in anticipation of the plague of disease transmission is to Alexandria, especially with the approaching season Resorts.

"Al-Masry Al-Youm", that there are instructions from the Minister of Health, Dr., "the woman" the need to intensify prevention campaigns and increased the number of observers of health.

In the same vein, the local council decided to maintain an emergency session next Tuesday to raise the issue for discussion and call the Director of preventive medicine and quarantine in Alexandria in the table and their coordination with each other.

"Dr." Yasser intelligent, "the Chairman of the Health Committee of the Egyptian local council today that the Alexandria governorate more prone to infection because many of the Libyans came to it, pointing to the possibility of transmission of the disease from rats to humans via fleas.

Strongly criticized the conflicting statements about injuries, especially the Ministry of Health announced yesterday that Egypt is free from injuries, while the World Health Organization said the presence of the disease in two cases and is called "intelligent" the need for firmness in dealing with the garbage scattered in the streets of Alexandria and the development of non-traditional emergency program to deal with mice and eliminate them and not "Ttefischha", pointing to the danger of the use of the "Ttvic" mice, because it seeks to speed deployment in the streets.

With Al Hasan Abaza, head of the cleanliness of the Egyptian Alexandria today that there are instructions from the Minister of Health of the company car sprayed disinfectant in the garbage in the streets and increase the company's activity and the passage of vehicles at regular intervals of all the districts of the province.

The company has imported large quantities of masks have been distributed to workers in addition to hands gloves to prevent transmission through insects and fleas.

He stressed that the company would distribute additional quantities of garbage at the houses and public squares in the period ahead.

Abaza called on citizens and the need for a large garbage bags and sealed off before dumping in the boxes.